loG BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [P. D. 4. 



the wliite pine blister rust, and any vmexpended balance of this sum 

 remaining at the end of the fiscal j^ar nineteen hundred and seventeen 

 may be expended in the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. 



Section 2. Chapter five hundred and seven of the acts of the year 

 nineteen hundred and twelve, as amended by section two of chapter one 

 hundred and sixty-one of the General Acts of the year nineteen hundred 

 and fifteen and by section five of chapter ninety-one of the General Acts 

 of the j^ear nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby further amended by 

 adding at the end thereof the following new sections to be numbered nine- 

 teen and twenty: — Section 19. In case the nursery inspector, either 

 personally or through his deputies, shall find plants known as ribes or five- 

 leaved pines infected with the disease known as the white pine blister rust, 

 or shall find ribes or pines so situated that in liis opinion they are likely 

 to become infected with this disease, he may, either personally or through 

 his deputies, forthwith destroy or cause to be destroyed such ribes or five- 

 leaved pines. Section 20. In carrying out his duties hereunder relative 

 to the control of the white pine blister rust, the state nursery inspector 

 shall, so far as practicable, co-operate ■with the state forester and with the 

 local tree wardens, moth superintendents, city foresters and forest wardens. 



Section 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 

 May 17, 1917. 



BOUNTIES TO AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES. 



General Acts, Chapter 226. 

 An Act relative to the granting of bounties to agricultural 



societies. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Chapter two hundred and sixty of the acts of the year nineteen hundred 

 and twelve, as amended by section one of chapter two hundred and forty 

 of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and by section one 

 of chapter two hundred and nine of the acts of the year nineteen hundred 

 and fourteen, and as affected by chapter two hundred and seventy-six of 

 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby further 

 amended by striking out the words "for the follomng purposes: — Two 

 hundred dollars", in the eighth and ninth lines, by inserting after the 

 word "in", in the tenth line, the words: — general premiums, and in, — by 

 striking out the words "and two hundred dollars in general premiums", 

 in the thirteenth and fourteenth lines, and by striking out all after the 

 word "section", in the eighteenth line, and inserting in place thereof the 

 words : — nor in any case more than eight hundred dollars for general 

 premiums, — so as to read as follows : — Every incorporated agricultural 

 society which is entitled to receive a bounty under section one of chapter 

 one hundred and twenty-four of the Re\nsed Laws, as amended by chapter 

 one hundred and thirty-three of the acts of the year nineteen hundred 

 and nine, shall be entitled to receive annually in August from the com- 



