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to prosecute all violations of this act, and all amounts so recovered shall be paid 

 over to the treasurer of the State. 



§ 5. The office of the State entomologist shall be established at the University 

 of Illinois, the trustees of which shall provide for him and his assistants such 

 office and laboratory rooms as may be necessary to the performance of their 

 duties. He shall have power to appoint such qualified assistants as may be 

 necessary to the execution of this act, who shall be competent, scientific, and 

 practical entomologists, and to fix a reasonable compensation for their labor, 

 and their acts, done in pursuance of his instructions, shall have the same 

 validity as his own. He shall pay over to the State treasurer all the funds 

 coming into his hands under the provisions of section 2 of this act, with an 

 itemized statement of the sources whence received. He shall certify to the 

 State auditor the amount of his expenses and of those of his assistants, and of 

 the salaries of his assistants employed under this act, less the sums received 

 under section 1 of this act, and the auditor shall thereupon draw his warrant 

 upon the State treasurer for the amount, which shall be paid out of the funds 

 provided for carrying this act into effect. The State entomologist shall make 

 to the governor a biennial report of his operations under this act, together with 

 a financial statement in detail as a part of his report as State entomologist, 

 and he shall also make each year to the State Horticultural Society, at its 

 annual meeting, a statement showing the Illinois nurseries inspected, the num- 

 ber and kinds of certificates issued, the location and ownership of the premises 

 treated or disinfected by him or his assistants, the kinds and amount of property 

 destroyed by him in pursuance to this act, and such other facts concerning the 

 operations of his office under this act as the executive committee of said horti- 

 cultural society may request. 



§ 6. There is hereby appropriated to the State entomologist for the salaries 

 .of assistants and for expenses incurred under this act the sum of eight thousand 

 dollars ($8,000) for the years 1899 and 1900. or so much thereof as may be 

 necessary. The auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized to draw his 

 warrant upon the State treasurer against the sums herein appropriated upon 

 the presentation of proper vouchers, and the State treasury [treasurer] shall 

 pay the same out of any funds in the public treasury. 



§ 7. Whereas an emergency exists, therefore this act shall take effect and be 

 in force from and after its passage. 



Approved April 11, 1899. 



INDIANA. 



Chapter 138, General Laws of 1899. 



An Act to provide for the inspection of nursery stock and to prevent the dissemination 

 of the San Jose scale and other dangerously injurious insects and plant diseases, and 

 for the appointment of a State entomologist, defining his powers, prescribing his 

 duties, and fixing his compensation ; also defining the crimes for the violation of this 

 act, and prescribing the punishment therefor, and making an appropriation for the 

 same, and declaring an emergency. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assemhly of the State of Indiana, 

 That all nurseries in Indiana where trees, shrubs, vines, plants, or other nur- 

 sery stock are grown and offered for sale, shall be inspected by the State ento- 

 mologist a.; least once each year, not earlier than June 1 nor later than October 

 1. at such times as he may elect, and he shall notify in writing the owners of 



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