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who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions thereof shall be 

 punished for each violation b}- a fine not exceeding twenty-five 

 dollars. 



Sect. 6. Any person who shall purposely resist or obstruct 

 said State Board of Agriculture or any persons, servants or 

 agents employed by it under this act, while engaged in tlie execu- 

 tion of the purposes of this act, shall be punished by a fine not 

 exceeding twenty-five dollars for each offence. 



Skct. 7. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to 

 bring the insect known as the Ocneria (h'sjxir or gypsy moth, or its 

 nests or eggs, within this Commonwealth ; or for an^' person know- 

 ingly to transport said insect, or its nests or eggs, from any town 

 or cit}' to another town or city within this Commonwealth. Any 

 person who shall offend against the provisions of this section of 

 this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred 

 dollars or by imprisonment in the house of correction not exceed- 

 ing sixty days, or by both said fine and imprisonment. 



Sect. 8. The said State Board of Agriculture may exercise all 

 the duties and powers herein conferred upon said Board by and 

 through its secretary and such members of said Board as said 

 Board ma}^ designate and appoint to have in charge, in conjunction 

 with its secretary, the execution of the purposes of this act. 



At a special meeting of the State Board of Agriculture 

 held April 28, 1891, to consider an act of the Massachusetts 

 Legislature, entitled "An Act to })rovide agahist depreda- 

 tions I)}' the insect known as the Ocneria dispar or gypsy 

 moth,'' and to provide for carrying out the provisions of 

 said act, it was 



Voted, That AVm R. Sessions, N. S. Shaler and Francis 

 H. Appleton be a committee of the Board to exercise all the 

 duties and powers conferred by the above-mentioned act 

 upon the State Board of Agriculture. 



Wm. R. Sessions, 



Secretari/. 



In view of the prejudice of many people against the use of 

 Paris green in spraying their trees and shrubs, the following 

 extracts from Bulletin No. 13, April, 1891, of the Hatch 

 Experiment Station, Amherst, Mass., and Bulletin No. 53, 

 August, 1889, of the Agricultural College Experiment 

 Station of Michigan, and the fourth report of the United 



