LOUISIANA. 55 



I^OITISIAXA. 



Act No. G. 



An Act to provide for the establishment and organization of a State crop pest commis- 

 sion and to define the duties and powers of the same ; to fix penalties for the violation 

 of any of the rules, orders, ordinances, and regulations thereof ; to make it a misde- 

 meanor for any person, firm, or corporation to bring into this State or have in pos- 

 session, except certain persons, any living Mexican boll weevil in any of its stages, 

 and providing a penalty therefor ; to provide for the publication and distribution of all 

 the proceedings and recommendations of said commission ; to authorize said commis- 

 sion to restrain, by injunction or otherwise, any violations, or threatened violations, of 

 its orders, rules, ordinances, and regulations, and to prohibit any court of the State 

 from bonding the same prior to trial on the merits ; to make it the duty of the attor- 

 ney-general and district attorneys to represent said commission and the sheriff to 

 serve all papers for said commission ; to provide for the payment of all fines and for- 

 feitures for violations of the orders, rules, ordinances, and regulations of said com- 

 mission to the State treasurer, and by him to be placed to the credit of said commis- 

 sion ; to relieve said commission of the necessity of giving bond or security in any legal 

 proceedings which it shall institute or defend in any court of justice in this State ; to 

 make an appropriation to carry out the provisions of this act and to repeal all laws or 

 parts of laws inconsistent or in conflict with the same. 



Section 1. Be it enacted hy the general assemhly of the State of Louisiana, 

 That a State crop pest commission for the State of Louisiana is berebj^ created 

 and establislied, to consist of the governor as ex officio cliairman, tlie commis- 

 sioner of agriculture, tlie director of the State experiment station, the station 

 entomologist, and two experienced resident cotton planters, the latter to be 

 appointed by the governor, and every four years thereafter, and who shall serve 

 for four years and until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. The 

 station entomologist and the two planters shall be commissioned and shall qual- 

 ify in the same manner as provided by the constitution and laws of the State for 

 all other officers. Said commission shall have its domicile at Baton Rouge and 

 shall hold its first session '^.t said place immediately after the promulgation of 

 this act, and at such other times and places as may be designated by said com- 

 mission. At any meeting of said commission any three members shall consti- 

 tute a quorum to transact business. The members of said commission, not 

 salaried under the State government, shall receive the sum of five ($5) per day 

 for each day consumed in going to and returning from any of the meetings of 

 ?<aid commission, and while in attendance thereon, and necessary traveling ex- 

 penses, which amount shall be paid by the State treasurer on the voucher of the 

 member, approved by the governor, out of any funds to the credit of said com- 

 iuission. Said commission shall elect one of its members secretary, and shall 

 :appoint such other assistants as may be necessary to carry on the work of said 

 commission, and shall fix their compensation. 



Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc.. That for the purpose of carrying out the 

 rules, ordinances, orders, and regulations of said conmiission, as hereinafter 

 provided, the commissioner of agriculture shall be the active chairman of said 

 commission, and as such shall see that all the rules, ordinances, orders, and 

 regulations of the same are faithfully executed ; and in addition to such duties, 

 the active chairman shall have the power, during the interval between the 

 meetings of said commission, and when the same is not in session, to issue all 

 orders, and to take all necessary steps, by suit or otherwise, to execute the 

 laws of the State on the subject-matter delegated to said commission, and to 

 carry out the rules, ordinances, orders, and regulations of said commission made 

 thereunder ; and he may, in his discretion, call special meetings of said com- 

 mission whenever, in his opinion, an emergency shall require it: Provided, 



