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Sec. 4. If the owner, or bis lessee, of any tract or parcel of land described in 

 any order made pursuant to section 3 of tbis act, upon wbom service of a copy 

 of such order bas been duly made, sball fail or neglect to substantially comply 

 tberewitb, be sball be deemed to maintain a public nuisance witbin tbe meaning 

 of this act, and to consent that the said tract or parcel of land may be plowed 

 by tbe county, and the board of county commissioners, when informed of such 

 failure or neglect, shall cause tbe land found by it to be so infected to be plowed, 

 under the direction of tbe chairman of said board, and the expenses incurred by 

 reason of such plowing shall be paid out of the county treasury, upon tbe war- 

 rant of the county auditor, in favor of the person entitled to the same. 



Sec. 5. Whenever any tract of land shall have been plowed by the county, 

 pursuant to the provisions of tbis act, and the plowing thereof sball be of value 

 to the owner, or his lessee thereof, in tbe raising of any crops thereon during tbe 

 season immediately following such plowing, such owner or lessee shall be liable 

 to the county to the value of such plowing. Whenever tbe board of county com- 

 missioners is of tbe opinion that any such liability has arisen by reason of such 

 plowing, it shall determine the sum for which the owner or lessee is so liable, 

 and direct tbe county auditor to demand the immediate payment thereof into 

 tbe county treasury ; and, if the same is not paid upon such demand, it is 

 hereby made the duty of the county attorney to bring a civil action in the name 

 of such board against the party so in default for tbe recovery of the same, and 

 interest thereon from the date of such demand, provided that tbe amount so 

 determined by the board of county commissioners sball be prima facie evidence 

 of the value of such plowing. 



Sec. 6. For the purposes of this act, the entomologist employed by tbe regents 

 of the University of Minnesota, at tbe State experiment station, located at the 

 capital of the State, sball be deemed the State entomologist. 



Sec. 7. Tbis act sball take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 



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An Act to make an appropriation for the years 1904 and 1905, for ttie purpose of pre- 

 venting the introduction into the State of Mississippi of the Mexican cotton holl weevil, 

 and to provide for the destruction and eradication of the same, whenever and wherever 

 found in the State ; establishing rules and regulations in relation thereto, and pro- 

 viding for the enforcement of the same. 



Section 1. Be it enacted 'by the legislature of the State of Mississippi, That 

 the entomologist of the Mississippi agricultural experiment station is empow- 

 ered, and it shall be his duty to prevent in every possible and practicable way 

 tbe introduction into this State of tbe Mexican boll weevil, its eggs, larvse, or any 

 other form of life through which it passes in development, should it make its 

 appearance in tbis State, wbene^'er and wherever found in tbis State. 



Sec. 2. Tbe entomologist of the Mississippi agricultural experiment station 

 sball have power to adopt rules and regulations governing tbe inspection, sale, 

 and transportation of trees, plants, bays, cotton, cotton seed, cotton-seed hulls, or 

 any other material or products of whatever nature or kind from districts or 

 States known or suspected to be infested with the Mexican cotton boll weevil, 

 and may require such articles and material to be disinfected or fumigated, ac- 

 cording to his directions, or destroyed if found to be infected and their destruc- 

 tion is deemed necessary, and it sball be unlawful for any person or persons, or 

 any transportation company, to bring or cause to be brought into tbis State any 

 article or articles that may serve to introduce tbe Mexican cotton boll weevil, 

 contrary to tbe rules and regulations of tbe entomologist, and it shall also be 

 unlawful for any person or persons residing without the State to send into the 



