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Sec. 8. The said, board of control, its agents or employees, are hereby em- 

 powered with authority to enter upon any premise in discharge of the duties 

 herein prescribed. Any person or persons who shall obstruct or hinder them or 

 their agents in the discharge of these duties shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 9. The board shall have the power to also adopt rules and regulations, 

 not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of this State and the United 

 States, for preventing the introduction of dangerously injurious crop pests from 

 without the State, and for the governing of common carriers in transporting 

 plants liable to harbor such pests to and from the State, and such regulations 

 shall have the force of laws. 



Sec. 10. It shall be unlawful for any grower, nurseryman, or corporation to 

 ship within the State of Georgia any trees, shrubs, cuttings, vines, bulbs, roots 

 without having been previously inspected by either a State or experimental sta- 

 tion entomologist or Government officer, within twelve months of the date of 

 said shipment, and certificate of inspection to accompany each box, or package. 

 Violation of this clause will be considered as a misdemeanor and punishable as 

 such. 



Sec. 11. Be it further enacted. That the members of the said board, any two 

 of whom shall constitute a quorum in the absence of the third, shall, within 30 

 days from the passage of this act, draw up and promulgate through the press 

 of the State the rules and regulations necessary to carry into full and complete 

 effect the provisions of this act, carefully defining what diseases or maladies, 

 both insect and fungus, shall constitute infestation in trees or plants within the 

 meaning and purview hereof. 



Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That any i^erson or persons residing in the 

 State of Georgia, dealing in or handling trees, etc., shall be compelled to have 

 his or their stock inspected annually on or before the 1st of November of each 

 year. If, upon such inspection, such stock is found to conform to the require- 

 ments of the board of control, the inspector shall furnish a certificate to that 

 effect. And any such person or persons making a shipment before the filing of 

 such certificate with the chairman of the board of control shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor. 



Sec. 13. Each and every person residing in States or countries outside of the 

 State of Georgia dealing in or handling trees, plants, cuttings, vines, shrubs, 

 bulbs, and roots in this State, shall register his name or firm and file a copy of 

 his or its certificate of inspection furnished by the entomologist, fruit inspector, 

 or duly authorized government official of his State or country, with the chair- 

 man of the board of control. Upon failure so to do, said stock shall be liable 

 to confiscation under order of the inspector. 



Sec. 14. When two reputable citizens of any county in Georgia shall notify 

 the board, from belief, that noxious insects or plant diseases exist in their 

 county, the said inspector shall be directed to ascertain as speedily as possible 

 by personal investigation, and in such other manner as he may deem expedient, 

 the extent of the infection, and shall act with all due diligence to suppress and 

 eradicate the said pests and give notice to the owner, tenant, or agent of such 

 premises to treat such infested plants according to the methods he may pre- 

 scribe, or destroy them within ten days from date of such notice, and if, after 

 the expiration of such period of ten days, the infested plants have not been 

 treated or the treatment has not been properly applied or is not effectual in 

 ridding plants of the pests, the inspector shall cause such plants to be properly 

 treated or destroyed as his judgment warrants. The cost of the work shall be 

 covered by execution from the owner of the premises. 



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