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ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 



Investigation 

 and report. 



Destruction 

 of diseased 

 plant. 



7. Whenever the scale exists, or is supposed to exist on any plant, the 

 Minister may direct a competent person to make an examination and inspec- 

 tion, and may order that any plant so infested, or such part as he may deem 

 advisable, shall be immediately destroyed by burning, either by the person 

 appointed to make the inspection or by the person owning or having possession 

 of the said plant, or some other person so directed in writing, and the person 

 so directed shall make a full report to the Minister in writing as to the nature 

 and extent of the work so performed, together with a fair estimate of the 

 value of the plant destroyed. 



Duties of 8. For the purpose of enforcing this Act, it shall be the duty of every 



inspectors ap- inspector appointed under The Yellows and Black Knot Act to make careful 

 Rev Stat* ** examination and inspection for the occurrence of the scale within the muni- 

 c. 280. cipality for which he is appointed, and to report forthwith every case of 



infestation, and neglect to make such report shall render the inspector liable 



to the penalties imposed under section 11 of this Act. 



Right of access 9. Any person appointed by the Minister under this Act to inspect or 



to places to destroy any plant for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this Act, 



se 1S ' shall, upon producing his authority in writing, have free access to any nursery, 



orchard, store, storeroom or other place where it is known or suspected that 



any plant is kept. 



Compensation 10. Upon the recommendation of the Minister there may be paid out of 



for destruction the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Province to the owner of any plant so 

 destroyed a sum not exceeding one-fourth of the value thereof (not including 

 fruit) as reported upon by such officer or other competent person appointed as 

 aforesaid ; but nothing in this section shall apply to any plant imported into 

 the Province within a period of one year prior to the examination by the 

 officer aforesaid. " 



Penalty. 



Extension of 

 Act to other 

 scale insects. 



11. Any person neglecting to carry out the provisions of this Act, or any 

 person offering any hindrance to the carrying out of this Act, shall, upon 

 summary conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than 820 nor more than 

 SI 00, together with costs, and in default of payment thereof shall be subject 

 to imprisonment in the common gaol for a period of not less than ten days nor 

 more than thirty days. 



12. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may by order direct that other 

 scale insects than the San Jose Scale may be included in the provisions of 

 this Act, and thereafter during the continuance of such Order in-Oouncil the 

 word " scale " in this Act shall include all such other scale insects. Public 

 notice of such Order in-Council shaU be given by publication in two successive 

 issues of The Ontario Gazette. 



