100 ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



SUPPLEMENT. 



AN Ad TO PROTECT CANADA AGAINST THE INTRODUCTION OF THE 

 INSECT PEST KNOWN AS THE SAN JOSE SCALE. 



Assented to March 18th, 1898. 



Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and 

 House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows : — 



Short title. i Thia Act may be cited as The San Jose Scale AcL 



nursery^tock 2. The importation of any trees, shrubs, plants, vines, grafts, cuttings or 



from certain buds, commonly called nursery stock, from any country or place to which 

 pla< hVt d *kis Act applies is prohibited. 



Penalty. 3. Any nursery stock so imported shall be forfeited to the Crown, and 



may be destroyed, and any person importing nursery stock from any such 

 country or place, or causing or permitting it to be so imported, shall be 

 deemed to be guilty of an offence under section 6 of The Customs Tariff, 1897, 

 and shall be liable to the penalty prescribed by that section. 



Application 4. The Governor in Council may from time to time declare that this 



of Act to be Ac t applies to any country or place as to which it has been made to appear 

 Governor in * Da ^ San Jose" Scale exists therein ; and, when satisfied that the importation 

 Council. of nursery stock from any country or place to which this Act has been applied 



may safely be permitted, he may in like manner declare that this Act no 



longer applies to such country or place. 



Exemption of 5. The Governor in Council, upon its being r^ade to appear to his satis- 



are D notliable f action that anv class °* pl ailts is not liable to the attack of the San Jose 7 



to San Jos6 Scale, may exempt plants of such class, and grafts, cuttings or buds thereof 



Scale. from the operation of this Act. 



Importation 6. The Governor in Council may from time to time, notwithstanding 



for scientific anything contained in this Act, permit the importation from any country or 



place to which this Act applies, of any such nursery stock as is required for 



scientific purposes. 



Publication of 7 j^\ Orders in Council made under sections 4 and 5 of this Act shall 



Orders* in ~ 



Comcil. be published in The Canada Gazette. 



Orders in Council. 



At the Government House at Ottawa, 



Friday, the 18th day of March, 1898. 



Present: His Excellency the Governor-General in Council. 



His Excellency, in virtue of the provisions of section 4 of the Act passed during the 

 present session of Parliament, cited as " The San Jose Scale Act," and by and with the 

 advice of the Queen's Privy Council, is pleased to declare that the United States of 

 America, Australia, Japan and the Hawaiian Islands shall be and the same are hereby 

 declared to be countries to which this Act applies owing to the existence of the San Jose" 

 Scale in them. 



John J. McGee, 



Clerk of the Privy Council. 



