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province, every package or quantity thereof shall be plainly labeled on the out- 

 side 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 the 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, cuttings, buds, or other nursery stock are 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, 

 steamboat company, or express company, or other person or persons, corpora- 

 tions, or companies carrying the same, and said package, box, or car, or 

 quantity thereof shall not be delivered to the consignee until the same bear the 

 aforesaid certificate, and any railway company, steamboat company, or express 

 company, person or persons, or 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 any sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five 

 hundred dollars, and such fines shall accrue to the benefit of the general revenue 

 fund of the State of Missouri. 



Sec. 2. There being no adequate provision for the above control of the 

 injurious insects and diseases of the agricultural and horticultural interests of 

 the State, creates an emergency within the meaning of the constitution ; there- 

 fore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 



Approved March 12, 1901. 



Article III, Chapter 67, Revised Statutes of 1899. 



Sec. 4725. Station established. There is hereby created and established a fruit 

 experiment station in south Missouri. (New section.) 



Sec. 4726. Purposes of experiment station. The leading objects of said ex- 

 periment station shall be to experiment with the different kinds of fruits, to wit, 

 apples, peaches, berries of all kinds, grapes and small fruits of all kinds, and to 

 ascertain the varieties that are the best adapted to this State ; and to study 

 the different diseases and insects to which said fruits, berries, and grapes are 

 subject 'and the remedies to prevent diseases and insects from injuring or 

 infecting said trees and orchards, with power to destroy and remove any in- 

 fected trees or orchards if necessary in the judgment of the manager and 

 inspector of said experiment station, to keep the disease or insects or plague 

 from scattering and infecting other trees or orchards, under rules hereinafter 

 set out. (New section.) 



Sec. 4727. Board of trustees — Manager and inspector — Appointment — Qualifi- 

 cations. There is hereby created a board of trustees of the members and a 

 manager and inspector. The manager and inspector shall be scientists and a 

 graduate of some scientific college, and be versed in diseases of fruits, trees, 

 and insects which infect them, and be versed in the different kinds of fruits, 

 grapes, and berries. Said board of trustees shall be appointed by the governor, 

 by and with the advice and consent of the senate; said trustees to hold their 

 office for six years : Provided, That the governor shall first appoint three trus- 

 tees, one for the term of two years, one for the term of four years, and one for 



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