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California, such infested shipments shall be immediately sent out oi the Stale, 

 or destroyed, at the option of the owner, owners, or agent, and at his or their 

 expense. 



Sec. 5. No person, persons, or corporation, shall bring or cause to be brought 

 into the State any peach, nectarine, or apricot trees, or cuttings, grafts, scions, 

 buds, or pits of such trees, or any trees budded or grafted upon peach stock or 

 root that has been in a district where the di&ease known as " peach yellows " or 

 the contagious disease known as contagious " peach rosette " are known to exist, 

 and any such attempting to land or enter shall be refused entry and shall be 

 destroyed or returned to the point of shipment, at the option of the owner, 

 owners, or agent, and at his or other [their] expense. 



Sec 6. No person, persons, or corporations shall bring, or cause to be brought 

 into this State any injurious animals known as English or Australian wild 

 rabbit, flying fox, mongoose, or any animal or other animal or animals detri- 

 mental to horticultural and agricultural interests. 



Sec. 7. Any person, persons, or corporation violating any of the provisions of 

 this act is guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 



Pabis Green. 



An Act to prevent fraud in the sale of Paris green used as an insecticide. 



[Became a law under constitutional provision, without governor's approval, February 28, 



1901.] 



The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, 

 do enact as folloivs: 



Section 1. It shall be the duty of each and every manufacturer of Paris 

 green (commercial aceto-arsenite of copper) to be used as an insecticide within 

 this State, and of every dealer in original packages of said Paris green manu- 

 factured outside of this State, before the said Paris green is offered or exposed 

 for sale, or sold within this State as an insecticide, to submit to the director 

 of the California Agricultural Experiment Station at Berkeley, samples of said 

 Paris green, and a written or printed statement setting forth : first, the brands 

 of said Paris green to be sold, the number of pounds contained in each package 

 in which it is put on the market for sale, the name or names of the manu- 

 facturers and the place of manufacturing the same ; second, the statement shall 

 set forth the amount of combined arsenic which the said Paris green contains, 

 and the statement so furnished shall be considered as constituting a guarantee 

 to the purchaser that every package of such Paris green contains not less than 

 the amount of combined arsenic set forth in the statement. 



Sec 2. Every purchaser of said Paris green in original packages which is 

 manufactured outside of this State who intends to sell or expose the same for 

 sale, and every manufacturer of said Paris green within this State, shall, after 

 filing the statement above provided for with the director of the California 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at Berkeley, receive from the said director 

 a certificate stating that he has complied with the foregoing statement, 

 which certificate shall be furnished without charge therefor; said certificate 

 when furnished shall authorize the party when receiving the same to deal 

 in this State in the said Paris green. Any person who fails to comply with the 

 terms of section one of this act shall not be entitled to such certificate and shall 

 not be entitled to deal in said Paris green within this State. Nothing in this 



