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Sbc. 2. At all joint meetings of said Board and said Commissioner, 

 for the purpose of conference, the Commissioner shall receive pay from 

 the Board for his expenses only. Said Commissioner may, with the 

 approval of said Board, appoint one or more Deputies in each county ; 

 and, when employed in the performance of duties imposed by this act, 

 said Commissioner and his Deputies shall receive from the State, upon 

 presentation to the Comptroller of bills duly sworn to, audited by the 

 auditing committee of the Board of Agriculture, and approved by the 

 Governor, five dollars per day and their expenses. 



Sec. 3. Any peach, almond, apricot, or nectarine tree diseased by 

 the yellows, and all fruit from any such diseased tree, is hereby declared 

 a public nuisance, and it shall be the duty of said Commissioner or any 

 Deputy, under such regulations as the State Board of Agriculture may 

 adopt or approve of, to order such trees or such fruit destroyed, and, upon 

 the failure of the owner to obey such order, to destroy such trees or fruit, 

 and no damage shall be paid to such owner on account of such destruction. 



Sec. 4. Any person may, when ordered to destroy any tree or fruit 

 condemned by the said Commissioner or a Deputy, appeal to the State 

 Board of Agriculture, and said Board shall appoint a committee of three 

 experts, which committee shall not include the person who, acting as 

 Commissioner or Deputy, ordered such tree or fruit destroyed, and the 

 decision of such committee shall be final. 



Sec. 5. Any person who shall, while such an appeal is pending, sell 

 any tree from a nursery where there are found to be diseased trees, or 

 any fruit from such tree ; or who shall, without such appeal, or after such 

 final decision, refuse to destroy such tree or fruit, shall be fined not less 

 than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars. 



Sec. 6. Any person that shall knowingly buy, for the purpose of 

 selling, or shall sell or offer for sale any fruit from such diseased trees, 

 shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. 



Sec 7. For the purpose of investigation or for the purpose of 

 destroying trees or fruit known to be diseased, the said Commissioner 

 and his Deputies may enter any premises ; and any person who shall 

 prevent or attempt to prevent such entry shall be punished by a fine of 

 not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in 

 a common jail not less than ten nor more than sixty days, or both. 



Sec. 8. Prosecutions for violations of this act may be brought, 

 before justices of the peace, or any city, borough, town, police, or com- 

 mon pleas court having criminal jurisdiction, by any prosecuting officer, 

 or by the Commissioner on Peach Yellows, or any of his Deputies, and 

 for such purpose said Commissioner and his Deputies shall have all 

 the powers of grand jurors. 



Sec 9. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



Approved June 14.* 



* For further information as to the peach yellows law and its enforcement, see 

 reports of Connecticut State Board of Agriculture for 1893, 1894, 1895 and 1896. 



