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which bond may be a good and responsible guarantee company, and shall be 

 approved by the board of county commissioners. Said inspector shall have the 

 power to appoint as many deputies as may be necessary, subject to the approval 

 of the county commissioners, who shall act under the direction and with the 

 authority of said inspector. Said inspector shall be paid for his services the 

 sum of four (4) dollars per day, and said deputies two dollars and fifty cents 

 per day, out of the county treasury, for as many days' services rendered as the 

 board of county commissioners shall, by resolution, authorize. It shall be the 

 duty of such inspector and his deputies to keep a complete record of their offi- 

 cial doings and to make a quarterly report thereof to the board of county 

 commissioners of said county, who shall withhold the warrant for the salary 

 of any delinquent inspector or deputy until such report is made. The inspector 

 shall furnish each owner or manager of an orchard or vineyard within his 

 jurisdiction such blanks as may be provided by the State board of horticulture, 

 containing questions and inquiries as to the condition of his orchard or vine- 

 yard and the extent to which the requirements of the inspector have been com- 

 plied with. Such owner or manager shall fill out said blanks and return them 

 to the inspector, who shall transmit them to the State board of horticulture. 

 The board of county commissioners shall have the power to remove any in- 

 spector or deputy who shall, in their judgment, fail to perform the duties of the 

 office. 



Sec. 2. No person or persons, either as an owner, agent, servant, employee, 

 or common carrier, shall bring or cause to be brought into any county in the 

 State of Colorado having a county horticultural inspector, from any district, 

 county. State, or foreign country, any trees, vines, shrubs, scions, cuttings, 

 graftings, fruits, or fruit pits, without giving notice of their arrival at their 

 destination, within twenty-four hours thereafter, to the horticultural inspector 

 of said county ; nor keep, sell, plant, expose for sale, deliver, give away, or 

 otherwise distribute any of the articles mentioned in this section, or cause or 

 permit the same to be done, except upon order of the county inspector and until 

 they shall first have been inspected as hereinafter provided, and disinfected to 

 the satisfaction of the said inspector. 



Sec 3. Whenever the county horticultural inspector shall be notified of the 

 arrival of any of the articles enumerated in section 2 of this act, he shall within 

 forty-eight hours (48) make a careful inspection of the same, and if any such 

 articles shall be found by him to be infested with any disease, live scale, or 

 insect pests, detrimental or injurious to fruit trees or the product thereof, or 

 to plant life, such infested articles shall be removed from the limits of the 

 county within forty-eight hours thereafter, at the expense of the owner, agent, 

 or shipper, or shall be destroyed. The owner, agent, or shipper shall have the 

 right to elect as to the removal of such infested articles from the county, or to 

 have the same destroyed by order and under the direction of said inspector. 



Sec. 4. The county horticultural inspector shall have the power to establish 

 and maintain quarantine and inspecting stations within his county, whenever 

 and wherever the same may be authorized by the board of county commis- 

 sioners and of such character as they shall direct. 



Sec 5. If the result of the inspection of the county horticultural inspector 

 shall be to put any of the articles mentioned in section 2 of this act in quaran- 

 tine, such articles shall be exempt from removal from the county during the 

 pendency of such quarantine regulations. Whenever said inspector shall deem 

 it necessary to the safety of the horticultural interests of his county, he may 

 hold in quarantine for information, subsequent inspection or disinfection, and 

 final order relative thereto any of the articles enumerated in said section 2 



