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in possession as aforesaid, and the loss to fall upon such owner or owners, 

 tenant or tenants, as aforesaid. 



The said board of agriculture, its agents, officers, or servants shall treat or 

 have treated at the expense of the owner or owners in order to prevent the 

 spread or dissemination of the aforesaid insects or diseases, or any new ones 

 which may api)ear, and all suspicious trees, vines, shrubs, plants, or grains found 

 to be in a dangerous proximity to those infested as aforesaid. 



Sec. 5. That should any owner or owners of any trees, vines, shrubs, plants, 

 or grains infested as aforesaid, or the tenant or tenants in iX)ssession of the 

 premises whereon any such trees, vines, shrubs, or grains are found, or should 

 any owner or owners of any trees, vines, shrubs, plants, or grains in dangerous 

 proximity to those infested as aforesaid, fail, neglect, or refuse after thirty 

 days* notic-e by said board to pay all of the exi^nses incurred by the said board 

 in treating or in destroying such infested ti'ees, plants, shrubs, vines, or grains, 

 or those in dangerous proximity thereto, he or they .shall be guilty of a misde- 

 meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than double the 

 amount of the expenses incurred by the said board in treating or destroying 

 the trees, plants, vines, shrubs, or grains aforesaid, and shall also be liable in a 

 civil suit to be brought in the name of the "State board of agriculture " for the 

 rec-overy of such exp^enses. together with all costs of suit. Said action may be 

 brought before any justice of the i)eace of the county wherein such trees, plants, 

 vines, shrubs, or grains mentioned herein are found, or in the superior c-ourt of 

 the State of Delaware in any c-ounty. The right of api^eal shall be the same as 

 in other civil causes. 



Sec. 6. That in order to ac-c-omplish the purposes of this act, the said board 

 of agriculture, its officers, employees, agents, and servants are hereby author- 

 ized to enter upon any public premises, parks, cemeteries, or other premises, 

 or upon any land of any i^ei^n or i>ersons. firm or firms. conx>ration or corpora- 

 tions within this State for the purpose of inspecting, examining, destroying, treat- 

 ing, or exi)erimenting uix)u the insects and diseases aforesaid. 



Sec. 7. That it shall be the duty of the board of agriculture to send at least 

 one of its officers, agents, or employees at least once a year into each c-ounty of 

 the State for the purpose of examining and determining thereby the healthful- 

 ness and general condition of the horticultural and agricultural interests. 



Sec. 8. That the board of agriculture, whenever it shall rec-eive reliable 

 information, or shall otherwise know, that any dangerously injurious insect, 

 l)est, or disease exists in any tree. vine, shrub, plant, or grain, anywhere in the 

 State, shall, in addition to the other duties, acts, and things herein prescribed 

 to be done and performed by it. warn the farmers and other persons residing 

 in the hundred in which any such insect, pest, or disease exists, and also per- 

 sons living near the infested plac-es of the nature of such insect, pest, or disease, 

 and the localities where it exists, and shall also furnish to the said farmers and 

 said other persons any and all information and knowledge the said board may 

 have or he able to procure of the remedies to be applied to suppress, abate, and 

 eradicate the said insects, i>ests. or diseases. 



Sec. 9. That the said board of agriculture shall examine and inspect, or cause 

 to be examined and insi^ected, at least onc-e every year, at such time as it shall 

 deem it best, any and all nurseries of trees, vines, shrubs, plants, grafts, cut- 

 tings, and buds in this State subject to the aforesaid insects, pests, and diseases, 

 and if found apparently free, so far as can be determined by inspection, from the 

 insects, pests, and diseases aforesaid to make and issue and give to the owner or 

 owners or persons in charge of the said nurseries a certificate of inspection in 

 such form as said board may prescribe, c-ertifying that such nurseries or prem- 



