58 LAWS AGAINST IXJUEIOUS INSECTS. 



Rules and Regulations of the State Crop Pest Commission of Louisiana. 



Section 1. Be it declared, ordained, and ordered, That the following insects 

 are hereby declared to be dangerous crop and fruit pests : 



(a) The Mexican boll weevil {Anthononius grandis). 



(&) The San Jose scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus) : Provided, however. That 

 this commission may. from time to time, declare other crop and fruit pests and 

 diseases to be dangerous. 



Sec 2. Be it further ordained and ordered. That in order to prevent the intro- 

 duction of the Mexican boll weevil into the uninfested part of the State of 

 Louisiana from the State of Texas and from the infested portion of Louisiana, 

 where the boll weevil is now known to exist, a quarantine is hereby declared 

 to exist against the State of Texas and against the following parishes of 

 Louisiana, to wit : Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu. Cameron. De Soto. Grant. Natchi- 

 toches, Rapides, Red River, Sabine, Vernon, Winn. 



(a) That no cotton seed, seed cotton, cotton-seed hulls (except such cotton- 

 seed hulls as are packed, shipped, and handled in a manner approved by this 

 commission when formal permit for their shipment has been issued by this 

 commission, such permit to accompany shipment when consigned to any point 

 in the noninfested portion of Louisiana), or cotton-seed sacks or seed-cotton 

 sacks shall be shipped into the uninfested portion of Louisiana from the State 

 of Texas or from the infested parishes of Louisiana as above enumerated. 



(b) That the quarantine hereby declared may. from time to time as the neces- 

 sity may arise, be extended to include counties in any State or Territory or 

 parishes in the State of Louisiana, or elsewhere. 



All railroads, steamboats, express companies, and other common carriers 

 entering the State of Louisiana from the State of Texas or from the infested 

 parishes of this State are especially enjoined to comply with the requirements 

 of this order and of the laws of the State of Louisiana governing same. 



Sec. ^. Be it further declared, ordained, and ordered, That no person, firm, 

 or corporation, except a duly authorized State or Federal entomologist, shall 

 bring into or have in his possession in the uninfested portion of the State of 

 Louisiana, for any purpose whatever, any living ^lexican boll weevil or cotton 

 boll, square, plant, or seed containing the Mexican boll weevil, whether adult 

 ov in the pupal, larval, or egg state ; and any such person, firm, or corporation 

 violating this provision of the act of the legislature shall, on conviction, as 

 prescribed by section 4 of Act No. 6 of the extra session of the legislature, ap- 

 proved December 15, 1903, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more 

 than one thousand dollars for each offense, or imprisoned for not less than ten 

 days nor more than six months. 



Sec. 4. Be it further declared, ordained, and ordered. That the experiment- 

 station entomologist shall be the entomologist of this commission ; and it is 

 hereby made his duty, with the assistance of the inspectors hereafter provided 

 lor, to carry out and enforce the provisions of Act No. B of the extra session of 

 the legislature of the State of Louisiana, approved December 15, 1903. In 

 the enforcement of the said act of the legislature he shall have the right, and 

 it is hereby made his duty whenever the public exigencies require it, to pre- 

 vent the bringing into or carrying through the State of Ixmisiana of any of the 

 property, articles, or things hereby quarantined against, and to condemn and 

 cause the same to be destroyed, as well as condemn and cause to be destroyed 

 all other property, premises, or fields in this State infested with the Mexican 

 boll weevil or other seriously injurious insect or disease. 



The district attorneys throughout the State are hereby especially enjoined to 



