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officers certify to such justice of tlie peace that said nursery stock is appar- 

 ently free from tlie insects and diseases mentioned herein, and tag every such 

 carload, box, bale, and package inspected by said officers with their certificate 

 of inspection ; and if said agent or consignee shall fail to have said nursery 

 stock examined by said State officials or fail to return such carload, box, bale, 

 or package thereof, then said justice of the peace shall order and direct the 

 constable or sheriff to burn and destroy all such trees, plants, shrubs, vines, buds, 

 or cuttings that have been shipped into this State in violation of this act. 



61. That whenever any agent of a transportation company, firm, or person 

 shall receive a carload, box, bale, or package of trees, plants, shrubs, , vines, 

 buds, or cuttings without a certificate attached, as provided for in section 60 of 

 this act, and shall fail to notify the State entomologist or State pathologist of 

 this fact immediately upon the arrival of such nursery stock, and before deliver- 

 ing the same to the consignee, said agent of the transportation company, firm, 

 or person shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction 

 before a justice of the peace, be fined a sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) 

 nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and costs of prosecution for each 

 and every offense, and stand committed until such fine and costs are paid ; and 

 the fines so collected shall be paid to the trustees of said college to be added to 

 the funds herein provided for carrying out the provisions of this act. If any 

 nurseryman, dealer, or agent sell, ship, or deliver any trees, plants, shrubs, or 

 vines into or in this State, which is infested with San Jose scale, peach-yellows, 

 pear-blight, or other injurious diseases, and upon examination by the State 

 pathologist, State entomologist, cr their assistants, is condemned by being so 

 infested, the said trees, plants, vines, and shrubs shall be destroyed, and the 

 nurseryman, dealer, or agent shall forfeit the value of such stock, and shall not 

 collect the same from the purchaser or consignee. 



62. That the State entomologist, State pathologist, and State horticulturist 

 shall submit annually a written report on or before the first day of February of 

 their inspections and investigations to the board of trustees, which shall be 

 transmitted to the governor of the State and the general assembly, and pub- 

 lished, as are the reports of other State organizations, and distributed among the 

 people of the State as bulletins of the Maryland agricultural experiment station. 



63. That the report of the present State entomologist, including the work done 

 by him up to the date of the passage of this act, shall be published and dis- 

 tributed as indicated and provided for in section 62 of this act, as the first 

 annual report of the Maryland state entomologist. 



64. That the sum of ten thousand dollars the first year, and eight thousand 

 dollars annually thereafter be, and is hereby, appropriated in order to carry out 

 the provisions of this act and properly provide for the above-described inspec- 

 tions ; to employ men qualified for their respective positions ; to procure the 

 requisite facilities and equipment necessary for the proper performance of the 

 duties herein incurred, and to offer means of support for investigation in addi- 

 tion to the inspection work of the State officers, and the dissemination of 

 information that will promote the horticultural and agricultural interests of 

 this State. 



65. That the comptroller be, and that he is hereby, authorized to issue his 

 warrant upon the treasurer of this State for the said sum of ten thousand dollars 

 for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the sum of eight thousand 

 dollars annually thereafter, out of any funds not otherwise appropriated ; that 

 the said sum of money shall be payable to the Maryland Agricultural College on 

 or before the first of October of each fiscal year, and the first yearly paj-ment 



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