OHIO. Ill 



which the same is sold or delivered. The premises of any such person or per- 

 sons as aforesaid shall be subject to inspection and to such regulations as may 

 be deemed necessary by the Ohio State board of agriculture for the prevention 

 of the spread of dangerously injurious insect pests or plant diseases. Failure 

 to file such sworn statement, or the sale or delivery of such stock after the 

 certificate under which it was bought has become invalid shall render the agent 

 or dealer liable to the penalties prescribed in section 8 of this act. The pro- 

 visions of this section shall not apply to anj person or persons who sell or 

 deliver such stock from nurseries within this State that hold a valid certificate, 

 which is provided for in this act, if the said stock is delivered direct from, the 

 nursery to the grower in the original package. 



Sec. 4. Whenever a nurseryman, or any other person, shall ship, or deliver, 

 within this State, except for scientific purposes, trees, shrubs, plants, or vines, 

 commonly known as nursery stock, not excepted in section 2 of this act, he 

 shall place upon each carload, box, bale, or other package, a copy of certificate 

 provided for in section 2 of this act, and signed by the chief inspector, stating 

 that the said stock is apparently free from dangerously injurious insect pests 

 and plant diseases. The illegal use of said certificate, by changing, defacing, or 

 placing it on uninspected stock, or using the same after the date of expiration 

 or revocation, shall render the owner or shipper liable to the penalties pre- 

 scribed for a violation of this act. 



Sec. 5. Every package of trees, shrubs, plants, or vines shipped into this 

 State from any other State, Territory, country, or province, shall be plainly 

 labelled on the outside with the names of the consignor and consignee and a cer- 

 tificate stating that the contents have been inspected or fumigated by a State or 

 Government officer, and that the trees, shrubs, plants, or vines therein contained 

 are apparently free from dangerously injurious insect pests and plant diseases. 

 If any trees, shrubs, plants, or vines shall be shipped into this State without such 

 certificate plainly affixed on the outside of the package, box, or car containing the 

 same, the facts must be reported within twenty-four hours to the chief inspector, 

 or a regularly appointed assistant, by the railroad, express, or steamboat com- 

 pany, or by any other person or persons carrying the same, and it shall be unlaw- 

 ful to deliver such property until it has been examined by a regularly appointed 

 inspector, and by him certified to be apparently free from dangerously injurious 

 insect pests and plant diseases. Any agent or common carrier, or persons carry- 

 ing such property as aforesaid, who shall fail to give such notice as is hereby 

 required, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this act. When nursery stock 

 is shipped into this State accompanied by a certificate, as herein provided, it 

 shall be held as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated, but the chief 

 inspector, when he has reason to believe that any such stock is infested or 

 infected, as hereinbefore described, is hereby authorized to cause the same to be 

 examined. In case the same is found to be infested or infected by dangerously 

 injurious insect pests or plant diseases, it shall be seized and the shipper shall 

 be immediately notified, and after ten days from such seizure it may be declared 

 a public nuisance and destroyed. 



Sec. 6. Upon the petition of any freeholder or lessee within the State of Ohio, 

 the chief inspector may cause to be examined any trees, shrubs, plants, or vines, 

 either on the premises of said petitioner, or in dangerous proximity thereto, as to 

 the presence of dangerously injurious insect pests or ^lant diseases, and shall by 

 himself, or through his assistants, have the right, ^yithin reaonable hours, to 

 enter upon any premises in the prosecution of the duties defined in this act. If 

 the examination discloses the presence of San Jose scale, peach yellows, black 

 knot, or any other dangerously injurious insect pests or plant diseases, the chief 

 inspector shall notify the owner or lessee of the premises in writing of the facts 



