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or liable to be introduced, and may at any subsequent meeting extend or amend 

 said list. Tlie commission shall also publish methods for exterminating such 

 pests or infectious diseases as they may deem capable of being exterminated 

 within the boundaries of the State, and for suppressing such as can not be 

 exterminated and for preventing the spread of such pests or diseases within the 

 State ; and for the purpose of disseminating knowledge concerning contagious 

 diseases or injurious pests affecting crops, plants, trees, etc.. and the remedies, 

 preventives, and disinfectants applicable thereto, the commission shall from 

 time to time, as they may deem necessary, have printed and distributed bulletins 

 containing such information, remedies, preventives, and disinfectants as they 

 may approve, including also the rules, orders, ordinances, and regulations of 

 said commission, which said bulletins shall be printed and distributed to all 

 interested persons under the direction and supervision of the Louisiana State 

 board of agriculture and immigration. When the said commission has reason 

 to suspect that any pest or plant disease listed by them as dangerous, exists in 

 any parish of the State, they shall cause such suspicion to be verified by a person 

 competent to determine the specific identity of such crop pests or disease of 

 plant, and if such suspicion prove well founded, the inspector of said commission 

 shall immediately take charge of said infected property and adopt such measures 

 for the treatment or extermination of same as the commission may direct. 

 Any duly authorized agent of the commission shall have authority to inspect any 

 building, warehouse, depot, or place where any property is located, or premises 

 or field supposed to be infested by any crop pest or disease listed and pub- 

 lished as such by the said commission, and if, in the opinion of the entomologist 

 selected by said commission, it shall be necessary to destroy the 'property so 

 infested so as to prevent the further spread of said injurious crop pest or dis- 

 ease, he shall have authority to destroy said property, and the commission shall 

 have the right to fix a compensation to be awarded the ov\-ner thereof. If the 

 owner should be dissatisfied with the amount allowed by said commission as 

 compensation for the property desti'oyed, he shall have the right to appeal to 

 the court of the parish in which such property' is destroyed, but in no case 

 shall any contest as to the value of the property to be destroyed suspend action 

 by the commission in inforcing their rules, orders, ordinances, and regulations. 

 Any one who shall seek to prevent any inspection under the direction of 

 said commission, or who shall otherwise interfere with the agents or employes 

 of said commission while in the performance of their duties, shall, upon con- 

 viction, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred 

 dollars for each offense, or may be imprisoned for not less than ten nor more 

 than thirty days. Prosecution under the provisions of this section shall be 

 instituted in any parish of the State in which the offense is committed. 



Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, etc., That all fines collected from prosecutions 

 imder the provisions of this act shall be paid to the State treasurer and by him 

 placed to the credit of said commission. 



Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, etc., That said commission shall not be required 

 to give any bond or security in any legal proceedings which it shall institute or 

 defend in any court of justice in this State. 



Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, etc.. That for the purpose of carrying out the 

 provisions of this act the sum of .$25,000, or so much thereof as maj- be necessary, 

 is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appro- 

 priated, and shall be paid by the State treasurer upon properly authenticated 

 vouchers signed by the president or secretary of said commission. 



Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, etc.. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict 

 or inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. 



Approved December 15, 1903. 



