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fund of the county. Any and all sum or sums so paid shall be and become a 

 lien on the property and premises from which said nuisance has been removed 

 or abated, in pursuance of this act, and may be recovered by an action against 

 such property and premises. A notice of such lien shall be filed and recorded 

 in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the said property and 

 premises are situated, within thirty days after the right to the said lien has 

 accrued. An action to foreclose such lien shall be commenced within ninety 

 days after the filing and recording of said notice of lien, which action shall be 

 brought in the proper court by the district attorney of the county in the name 

 and for the benefit of the county making such payment or payments, and when 

 the property is sold enough of the proceeds shall be paid into the county treas- 

 ury of such county to satisfy the lien and costs ; and the overplus, if any there 

 be, shall be paid to the owner of the property if he be known, and if not, into 

 the court for his use when ascertained. The county board of horticultural com- 

 missioners is hereby vested with the power to cause any and all such nuisances 

 to be at once abated in a summary manner. 



Sec. 3. Said county boards of horticultural commissioners shall have power to 

 divide the county into districts, and to appoint a local inspector to hold office 

 at the pleasure of the commissioners, for each of said districts. The State 

 board of horticulture may issue commissions as quarantine guardians to the 

 members of said county board of horticultural commissioners and to the local 

 inspectors thereof. The said quarantine guardians, local inspectors, or members 

 of said county boards of horticultural commissioners, shall have full authority 

 to enter into any orchard, nursery, place or places where trees or plants are kept 

 and offered for sale or otherwise, or any house, storeroom, salesroom, depot, or 

 any other such place in their jurisdiction, to inspect the same, or any part 

 thereof. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of said county board of horticultural commission- 

 ers to keep a record of their official doings, and to make a report to the State 

 board of horticulture, on or before the first day of October of each year, of the 

 condition of the fruit interests in their several districts, what is being done to 

 eradicate insect pests, also as to disinfecting, and as to quarantine against insect 

 pests and diseases, and as to carrying out all laws relative to the greatest good of 

 the fruit interest. Said board may publish said reports in bulletin form, or may 

 incorporate so much of the same in their annual reports as may be of general 

 interest. 



Sec. 5. The salary of all inspectors working under the county board of horti- 

 cultural commissioners shall be two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per day. In 

 the case of the commissioners themselves, their compensation shall be four dol- 

 lars per day, when actually engaged in the performance of their duties, and 

 itemized necessary traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of their regular 

 duties as prescribed in this act. 



Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the county board of horticultural commissioners 

 to keep a record of their official doings and make a monthly report to the board 

 of supervisors ; and the board of supervisors may withhold warrants for sala- 

 ries of said members and inspectors thereof until such time as said report is 

 made. 



Sec. 7. An act entitled "An act to protect and promote the horticultural inter- 

 ests of the State," approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, 

 and certain acts amendatory thereof, approved March nineteenth, eighteen hun- 

 dred and eighty-nine, and March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, 

 are hereby repealed. 



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



