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ating same. Agents and employees of railroads shall be required to open for 

 inspection any car, sealed or unsealed, at any siding, freight yard, or depot in 

 this State, when so ordered by the State entomologist or his assistant. Any 

 person who shall refuse to comply with the instructions of the State entomolo- 

 gist or his assistants as herein specified, or who shall offer any hindrance or 

 shall obstruct the State entomologist or his a'ssistants in the discharge of their 

 duties as herein specified shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 

 conviction shall be punished as provided by section 1039 of the Penal Code of 

 Georgia of 1895. 



Sec. 20. The State entomologist, himself or assistants, shall have power to enter 

 during ordinary business hours any premises, depot, warehouse, cottoh mill, oil 

 mill, or other building or place in this State where agricultural products are or are 

 supposed to be, for the purpose of inspecting and determining whether any boll 

 weevils are there present. In case of finding any material therein infested witli 

 the boll weevil he shall at once give instructions to the owner, agent, or tenant 

 thereof to destroy, fumigate, or treat such infested material in such manner as 

 in his judgment he may deem best. But in the event said material should be 

 ordered destroyed, the owner shall be compensated as now provided by law in 

 eases where property is condemned for public use. Failure of the agent, ownei*. 

 or tenant to comply with said directions (unless an appeal be taken as provided 

 for in section 4 of this act) or the removal of said infested material or any part 

 thereof from the premises, shall be deemed a misdemeanor and shall be punished 

 as provided by section 1039 of the Penal Code of Georgia of 1895. 



Rules and Regulations. 



1. In accordance with section 11 of said act, the following insects and fungous 

 diseases are hereby declared, individually and severally, to constitute infestation 

 in trees and plants, this list to be revised at the will of the board of entomology : 



The San .Jose scale (Aspicliotus perniciosus) . 



The new peach scale {Diaspis pentagona). 



The woolly aphis of apple {Scliizoneura lanigera). 



Black knot of plum and cherry (Ploicrightia morhosa). 



The crown gall (Dendrophagus glohosiis). 



The Mexican cotton boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis). 



Rosette of peach and plum. 



Yellows of peach. 



2. The State entomologist is hereby charged with the enforcement of said act, 

 and as inspector is directed to locate by personal investigation, correspondence, 

 and in such other manner as he may deem best the above-named pests so 

 far as they may exist in this State, and give proper directions and take such 

 steps in accordance with the above-cited act as he may deem necessary to con- 

 trol or eradicate the same. 



3. In accordance with section 5 of the above-cited act, the State entomol- 

 ogist is hereby endued with power to condemn and destroy any infested trees, 

 shrubs, or other plants that in his judgment are not worthy of remedial treat- 

 ment, when such infestation is, or is likely to become, a menace to the agri- 

 cultural interests of any section of the State, or when the owner or owners of 

 infested premises shall refuse or neglect to properly execute the treatment pre- 

 scribed for him or them. 



4. Any trees, shrubs, or other plants commonly known as nursery stock shipped 

 within the State of Georgia without each box, bundle, or package (in each car- 



