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for their services the sum of four dollars per day and actual traveling expenses : 

 Provided, They shall not exceed twenty days in each year, and an annual appro- 

 priation of one thousand dollars annually, to be paid quarterly by the State 

 treasurer out of any moneys appropriated by the general assembly for said 

 board. At all meetings of said board a quorum for the transaction of any and 

 all business that may come before the board shall consist of any two of the 

 commissioners. The board shall meet at least once in every three months at 

 such place or places as they may select. The first meeting of the board shall be 

 held within ten days after the qualification of the commissioners, and at said 

 meeting the board shall elect one of its members as president. 



Sec. 3. The board of agriculture shall have and possess the power to abate, 

 suppress, eradicate, and prevent, by such means as shall be prescribed and pro- 

 vided by law or by rule, order, or regulation of said board, the San Jose scale, 

 peach yellows, pear blight, and all other contagious and infectious and injuri- 

 ously dangerous diseases of fruit trees, plants, vegetables, cereals, horses, cattle, 

 and other farm animals ; to devise such plans for securing immigration to this 

 State of industrious and useful settlers as it may consider advisable, and to 

 execute such plans in the manner prescribed by law ; to make and adopt rules 

 for the government of the board and the same to change, alter, and modify, from 

 time to time, as the board may wish ; to employ and discharge such inspectors, 

 ofiicers, employees, agents, and servants as in its opinion may be necessary to 

 carry out the provisions of this act : Provided, however, That the remuneration 

 or wages to be paid to any such inspectors, ofiicers, employees, or agents in any 

 year shall not, together with the other expenses of the board, exceed the appro- 

 priation annually made to the board by the general assembly in and for that 

 year ; to make rules for the proper government of all inspectors, officers, 

 employees, agents, and servants who may be employed by the board. 



Sec. 4. That in order to abate and prevent, eradicate, and exterminate the 

 diseases of fruit trees known as the San Jose scale, the peach yellows, the pear 

 blight, and all other injuriously dangerous insect pests and plant diseases which 

 may appear in this State, it shall be the duty of the board of agriculture to seek 

 out and suppress in the manner herein provided all the injurious insect pests 

 and diseases hereinbefore mentioned, and also any new diseases or pests destruc- 

 tive to the agricultural and horticultural interests of the State, and also to con- 

 duct experiments when necessary to accomplish that end ; and upon knowledge 

 of the existence of any of said diseases, or any new disease or insect pest in any 

 of the fruit trees, plants, vines, shrubs, and grains of this State, to mark or tag 

 in some conspicuous way all such trees, plants, vines, shrubs, or grains, and to 

 notify in writing the owner or owners thereof or the tenant in possession of the 

 premises in which the said trees, vines, plants, shrubs, or grains are found of the 

 existence therein of said disease, or any new disease as aforesaid, and to pre- 

 scribe the proper treatment and remedies therefor, and should such owner or 

 owners of such infested trees, vines, plants, shrubs, or grains, or the tenant or 

 tenants in possession of the premises whereon said trees, plants, vines, shrubs, or 

 grains are found, neglect, fail, or refuse within ten days after receiving the 

 notice aforesaid to apply the remedy or remedies prescribed by the board of 

 agriculture and also in the manner and at the times as ordered and directed by 

 the said board, then and in such case it shall be the duty of the said board, its 

 agents, or servants, to cause the remedy or remedies prescribed to be applied at 

 the expense of the owner or owners of such infested trees, plants, vines, shrubs, 

 or grains, and said board shall have the power, w^hen it deems it necessary, to 

 cause the trees, plants, vines, shrubs, or grains so infested as aforesaid to be 

 destroyed at the expense of the owner or owners thereof, or the tenant or tenants 



