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the order, which the said officer shall thereupon be fully authorized to do ; fines 

 recovered under this act shall be collected and chargeable as are other judg- 

 ments of the court imposing the same. 



15.a All proceedings to enforce the provisions of this act shall be brought in 

 the name of and prosecuted by the State board of agriculture through the 

 committee of appeal appointed by the executive committee of the board, as 

 prescribed in section twelve of this act, and in any court of competent juris- 

 diction in the county in which the offense complained of shall have been com- 

 mitted ; action by said committee shall be based upon a report from the State 

 entomologist, certifying the character of the offense committed and the proof 

 supporting the charge; all fines and costs shall, after deducting therefrom the 

 necessary costs of prosecution, be paid into the treasury of the State, accom- 

 panied by a statement showing the amount collected and the cost of collecting 

 the same. 



16. For the purpose of making the inspections, examinations and investiga- 

 tions specified in this act, and to enforce the provisions of the same, the State 

 entomologist and his duly appointed deputy may enter upon any lands, open 

 or inclosed, upon which such inspections, examinations, and investigations are 

 necessary or where any nuisance as defined in section one of this act is main- 

 tained or charged, and into any storehouse or building containing nursery stock 

 which he is herein directed or entitled to inspect, and any interference with or 

 obstruction made to the entomologist or his deputy while engaged in the per- 

 formance of the duties herein imposed shall subject the offender to punishment 

 as a disorderly person under the general laws of this State upon a charge made 

 against him by the officer interfered with. 



17. The sum of three thousand dollars annually is hereby appropriated to the 

 State board of agriculture for the purposes of this act : Provided , That no pay- 

 ment shall be made pursuant to this act until the amount thereof shall have 

 been included in the annual appropriation bill. 



18. Chapter one hundred and four, laws of one thousand eight hundred and 

 ninety-eight, bearing the same title as the present act, is hereby repealed. 



19. This act shall take effect immediately. 

 Approved April 14, 1903. 



An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to prevent the introduction into and the 

 spread of injurious insects in New Jersey, to provide a method for compelling their 

 destruction, to create the office of State entomologist, to authorize inspection of 

 nurseries, and to provide for certificates of inspection," approved April fourteenth, 

 one thousand nine hundred and three. 



Be it enacted "by the senate and general assemNy of the State of JSfeiv Jersey: 

 1. Section fifteen of the act to which this is an amendment is hereby repealed 

 and the following substituted : 



15. Proceedings to enforce the provisions of this act shall be brought in the 

 name of and prosecuted by the State board of agriculture, through the committee 

 of appeal appointed by the executive committee of the board, as prescribed in 

 section twelve of this act ; every district court and every justice of the peace in 

 any city or county, and every police justice or recorder in any city, is hereby 

 empowered, on complaint under oath or affirmation made according to law that 

 any person or persons has or have violated any of the provisions of this act, to 

 issue process in the name of the State board of agriculture of the State of New 

 Jersey as prosecutor, for the use of the State of New Jersey ; said oath or 



o See act approved March 22, 1904, for amendment of this section. 

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