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without the State to any point within the State shall immediately, upon receiv- 

 ing such consignments, notify the commissioner of agriculture of the fact that 

 such consignment is in their possession, giving the name of the consignor and 

 consignee and the point of destination of such consignment. All trees, plants, 

 shrubs, buds, or cuttings, commonly called nursery stock, grown in any nursery 

 in this State in which San Jose scale has been found within two years of the 

 date of the dissemination of said nursery stock or grown in said nursery within 

 one-half a mile of where said scale was found, and also all nursery stock from 

 outside of this State disseminated or planted in this State after the first day of 

 July, nineteen hundred and two, must be fumigated with hydrocyanic gas in such 

 manner as may be directed by the commissioner of agriculture of this State. 

 Such fumigation must be done by the grower, consignor, or consignee of such 

 'stock before planting, dissemination, or reshipment, except such trees, shrubs, 

 plants, buds, or cuttings grown in this State as are planted by the grower or 

 propagator for himself or such as from its nature or state of growth would be 

 exempt ; in such cases the said commissioner shall declare such trees, shrubs, 

 plants, buds, or cuttings free from such treatment. All nursery stock brought 

 into this State from outside of this State must be accompanied by a certificate 

 from the consignor that it has been fumigated as aforesaid. Should any such 

 stock arrive without such certificate, the transportation company delivering it 

 shall at once notify the said commissioner to that effect. The consignee shall 

 also at once notify him of that fact and shall proceed to fumigate said stock, as 

 directed by the commissioner of agriculture, without delay. Should any nursery 

 stock purchased within one year be found infested with San Jose scale on the 

 premises of any nurseryman, it shall not be considered such an infestation as 

 to require the fumigation of other stock not so purchased. The words " nur- 

 sery stock," wherever used in this article, shall apply to and include all trees, 

 shrubs, plants, buds, willow grown for nursery, baskets, or other commercial 

 purposes, or cuttings, whether grown in a nursery or elsewhere, so far as it 

 relates to fumigation. The provisions of this and the preceding section shall 

 not apply to florists' greenhouse plants, flowers, or cuttings, commonly known 

 as greenhouse stock, and no certificate shall be required for shipment of native 

 stock collected in the United States not grown in nurseries, nor to stock so 

 shipped into the State that its sale and shipment become either interstate-com- 

 merce traffic or commerce with foreign nations. {As amended hy chapter 519 

 of the latvs of 1902. 



]^ORTH CAROLII^A. 



Chapter 264, Laws of 1897. 



An Act to prevent the introduction and dissemination of dangerous insect, fungous, and 



weed pests of crops. 



The general assewibly of North Carolina do enact: 



Section 1. That for the purpose of this act the State commissioner of agri- 

 culture, the director of the North Carolina agricultural experiment station, and 

 the president of the North Carolina State horticultural society are hereby con- 

 stituted a commission for the extermination of noxious insects, fungous diseases, 

 and weeds which are affecting or may affect crops. They are empowered to 

 elect one of their number chairman, and to adopt rules and regulations for their 

 own government, such as may be requisite for carrying out the provisions of 

 this act. The members of the said commission shall receive no salary, and shall 



