SUPPRESSION OF INSECT PESTS AND PLANT DISEASES. 31 



upon conviction thereof shall be punished for such offense as provided in section 6 

 of this act. 



SEC. 8. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of Agriculture that any 

 State, Territory, district, corporation,, firm, or person shall have provided proper 

 and competent inspection and treatment in accordance with the provisions of this 

 act for the objects above specified as being subject to inspection and treatment, he 

 may, by proclamation or otherwise, accept such inspection and treatment in lieu of 

 inspection and treatment by officers appointed by himself, which acceptation or 

 proclamation by the said Secretary of Agriculture shall relieve all such articles 

 specified in sections 5, 6, and 7 of this act, when properly stamped or labeled, from 

 further quarantine or restrictions in interstate commerce. 



SEC. 9. That the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- 

 sary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States 

 not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the provisions of tins act. 



SEC. 10. This law shall take effect on and after the first day of July, 1897. 



It was voted that the committee on legislation be made a committee 

 on ways and means, and, further, that each member of the convention 

 contribute $1 to defray the necessary expenses of the convention. 



Upon motion of Mr. Powell, a unanimous vote of thanks was extended 

 to the proprietor of the Ebbitt House for his courtesy in providing a 

 room for the use of the convention. 



Upon motion of Mr. Barry, a vote of thanks was extended to those 

 who read papers before the convention, to the officers in charge of the 

 convention, and to the Ohio Horticultural Society for issuing the call 

 for the convention. 



A committee, consisting of H. E. Yan Deman, S. L. Lupton, and M. 

 J. Daniels, was appointed to wait upon the Secretary of Agriculture 

 and request him to publish the proceedings of the convention as a 

 special bulletin. 



The convention then adjourned. 



; :\; i \/ ; LESLEY WEBB, 



.;-,'*' M. J. DANIELS, 



I , Y- I '* ;*; *v * -Y r Secretaries. 



SESSION OF THE PERMANENT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. 



The permanent legislative committee met immediately on adjourn- 

 ment of the convention and elected the following executive committee: 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 



W. B. Alwood, Blacksburg, Va., chairman. 

 F. M. Webster, Wooster, Ohio, secretary. 

 E. M. Wardell, Los Angeles, Gal. 

 J. H. Hale, South Glastonbury, Conn. 

 C. M. Hobbs, Bridgeport, Iiid. 



