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section shall be construed as applying to retail dealers selling said Paris green 

 which has already been labeled and guaranteed. 



Sec. 3. Paris green when sold, offered or exposed for sale, as an insecticide 

 in this State shall contain at least fifty per centum of arsenious oxide and shall 

 not contain more than four per centum of the same in the uncombined state. 



Sec. 4. The director of the California State Agricultural Station at Berkeley 

 shall examine or cause to be examined different brands of Paris green sold, 

 offered or exposed for sale within the State, and cause samples of the same to 

 be analyzed, and shall report results of analyses forthwith to the secretary of 

 the State board of horticulture and to the party or parties submitting said sam- 

 ples, and such report shall be final as regards its quality. 



Sec. 5. Any person or persons, firm, association, company, or corporation 

 violating any of the provisions of this act, and any person who shall sell any 

 package of Paris green or any part thereof which has not been labeled as herein 

 provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than fifty 

 dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, together with the costs of the suit 

 in an action caused to be brought by the State board of horticulture through its 

 secretary in the name of the people of the State of California. 



Sec. 6. The attorney-general of the State of California is charged with the 

 prosecution of all such suits. 



Sec 7. This act shall take effect immediately. 



COJLORADO. 



An Act concerning horticulture, and to repeal sections 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of an act 

 entitled "An act to create State and county boards of horticulture, define their duties 

 and compensation, to protect and promote the horticultural interests of the State, and 

 to repeal an act to establish a bureau of horticulture, approved March 8, 1883," 

 approved April 5, 1893. 



Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Colorado: 



Section 1. Whenever a petition is presented to the board of county commis- 

 sioners of any county signed by thirty-five (35) freeholders, each one of whom 

 shall be the owner of an orchard of at least two acres situate and growing in 

 said county, stating that in their opinion a necessity exists for protecting the 

 horticultural interests of said county, diminishing and destroying fruit pests 

 and diseases and insects injurious to fruit trees, plants, vines, and shrubs, the 

 said county commissioners shall appoint a competent, experienced horticulturist, 

 a person who shall be known as the county horticultural inspector, who shall 

 hold his office for a period of one year unless otherwise terminated by said 

 board of county commissioners. It shall be the duty of the professor of 

 entomology of the State Agricultural College at Fort Collins, in this State, to 

 examine all persons applying for a license as a horticultural inspector, and if 

 found competent and fully qualified to perform the duties of the office he shall 

 issue to such applicant a license as a county horticultural inspector, which 

 license shall certify to the competence of such applicant and shall authorize 

 him to act as an inspector in any county in the State for a period of two j^ears 

 from its date. Said professor shall receive for such services a fee of five 

 dollars from such applicant. No person sh-all enter upon the duties of the office 

 of such inspector nor continue in the performance thereof unless holding such 

 a license. Such inspector shall also give a good and sufficient bond before 

 entering upon the duties of his office, in the sum of one thousand dollars, con- 

 ditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of the office, the surety on 



