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which expense, together with all other expenses authorized by this act, is hereby 

 allowed for the purposes specified. [As amended March 20, 1905.] 



Sec. 2, Upon taking office under this act such commissioner shall be entitled 

 to receive and have turned over to him as such commissioner all the books, 

 records, and property in the possession, charge, custody, or control of the State 

 board of horticulture heretofore existing, and all such property shall be deliv- 

 ered to such commissioner upon demand. Such commissioner shall be deemed 

 for such purposes the successor of said board. 



Sec. 3. Such commissioner shall collect books, pamphlets, and periodicals and 

 other documents containing information relating to horticulture, and shall pre- 

 serve the same ; collect statistics and other information showing the actual con- 

 dition and progress of horticulture in this State and elsewhere ; correspond with 

 horticultural societies, colleges, and schools, and with the county boards of hor- 

 ticulture existing or that may exist in this State, and with all other persons 

 necessary to secure the best results to horticulture in this State. He shall require 

 reports from county boards of horticulture in this State, and may print the same 

 or any part thereof as he may select, either in the form of bulletins or in his 

 annual report, or both, as he shall deem proper. He shall issue and cause to be 

 printed and distributed to county boards of horticulture in this State, and to all 

 other persons whom he may deem proper, bulletins or statements containing all 

 the information best adapted to promote the interest and protect the business 

 and development of horticulture in this State. Such commissioner shall be 

 deemed to be the State horticultural quarantine oflicer mentioned in chapter 

 seventy-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the purpose of 

 that act, and shall be empowered to perform the duties which under that act are 

 to be performed by the State horticultural quarantine officer : Provided, That 

 any inspection therein authorized, when made by such commissioner, must be 

 with the approval of the governor and as provided by this act. 



Sec. 4. Said commissioner may, by and with the approval of the governor, 

 establish, maintain, and enforce such quarantine regulations as may be deemed 

 necessary to protect the nurseries, trees, shrubs, plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, 

 scions, buds, fruit pits, fruit, vegetables, or other articles of horticulture, against 

 contagion or infection by injurious disease, insects, or pests, by establishing such 

 quarantine at the boundaries of this State or elsewhere within the State, and he 

 may make and enforce, with the approval of the governor, any and all such rules 

 and regulations as may be deemed necessary to prevent any infected stock, tree, 

 shrub, plant, vine, cutting, graft, scion, bud, fruit pit, fruit, vegetable, or other 

 article of horticulture from passing over any quarantine line established and pro- 

 claimed pursuant to this act, and all such articles shall, during the maintenance 

 of such quarantine, be inspected by such commissioner or by a deputy appointed 

 in writing by said commissioner, with the approval of the governor, and he or 

 the deputy so conducting such inspection shall not permit any such article to 

 pass over such a quarantine line during such quarantine, except upon a certifi- 

 cate of inspection signed by such commissioner or in his name by such a deputy 

 who has made such inspection, unless such article has been immediately prior to 

 such passage inspected by an officer or agent of the United States entitled to 

 inspect the same, and such officer or agent has granted permission for such 

 passage. All approvals by the governor given or made pursuant to this act shall 

 be in writing and signed by the governor in duplicate, and one copy thereof shall 

 be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and the other in the office of saii' 

 commissioner before such approval shall take effect. 



Sec, 5. Upon information received by such commissioner of the existence of 

 any infectious disease, insect, or pest dangerous to any such article or to the 



