CALIFORNIA. 13 



ABKAKSAS. 



Be it enacted hy the general assembly of the State of Arkansas: 



Section 1. Whenever any trees, vines, bushes, scions, cuttings, buds, or any 

 nursery stock are shipped into this State from another State, county, or province, 

 every package or quantity thereof shall be plainly labeled on the outside with 

 the name and address of the consignor, the name and address of the consignee, 

 the contents, and a certificate showing that the contents have been inspected by 

 a State or experiment station entomologist of the State from which the shipment 

 was made ; that the trees, vines, bushes, scions, cuttings, buds, or other nursery 

 stock therein contained are free from San Jose scale, peach yellows, rosette, or 

 other dangerously injurious insects, or contagious or infectious fungoid or other 

 diseases, and whenever any trees, vines, bushes, scions, buds, cuttings, or other 

 nursery stock is shipped into the State without such certificate plainly fixed on 

 the outside of the package, box, or car containing the same, the fact must be 

 reported to the consignor by the railway company or express company, or other 

 person or persons, corporations, or companies carrying the same, and said pack- 

 age, box, or car, or quantity thereof shall not be delivered to the consignee until 

 the same shall bear the aforesaid certificate ; and any railroad company, steam- 

 boat company, or express company, person or persons, corporation or company 

 who shall violate or evade the provisions of this section, or offer any hindrance 

 to the carrying out of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred 

 dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, and such fine shall go into the gen- 

 eral school fund of the State of Arkansas. 



Sec. 2. That the entomologist of the experiment station of the university at 

 Fayetteville be, and he is hereby, made the State inspector for the State of 

 Arkansas, and he shall, when requested to do so by owners of nursery stock 

 grown in this State, such as described in section one of this act, visit and 

 inspect said nursery, and if found to be free from all insects, contagious or 

 infectious fungoids or other diseases, he shall issue certificates of inspection in 

 accordance herewith ; said inspector shall receive as fees for said inspection five 

 dollars for each fifty acres or fraction' thereof , and all traveling expenses to be 

 paid by those having the stock inspected, it being the intention of this act to 

 provide an inspection of nursery stock grown in the State of Arkansas, so that 

 the same may be inspected so as to enable them to ship to other States, and this 

 act is to conform to other State laws. 



Sec. 3. This act to take effect from and after its passage ; all laws and parts 

 of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. 



Approved May 20, 1903, 



CAIilFORKIA. 



State Commission of Horticultuee. 



An Act to create a State commission of horticulture. 



[Approved March 25, 1903. Amended March 20, 1905.] 



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

 enact as follows: 



Section 1. The oflice of State commissioner of horticulture of California is 

 hereby created. It shall be the duty of the governor, within forty days after 



