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be the duty of the secretary to proceed as speedily as possible, by himself or 

 a duly authorized inspector, to investigate and dispose of such shipment. 



Rule 5. The inspector of tlie board of agriculture shall have power to require 

 any nurseryman in the Territory to fumigate his trees, shrubs, or plants \yith 

 hydrocyanic acid gas or other substance when, in his judgment, such treatment 

 is necessary or advisable for the proper protection of the agricultural or horti- 

 cultural interests of the Territory or any section thereof. 



Rule 6. In addition to fruit trees the following shall be classed as nursery 

 stock if offered for sale and shall be subject to the regulations governing the 

 inspection and transportation of the same : Strawberry plants, vines, ornamental 

 trees and shrubs, and field-grown roses. 



Rule 7. All nursery stock grown in States or Territories where there is no 

 nursery-inspection law shall be inspected bj- the entomologist of the board of 

 agriculture before the same can be delivered to the consignee. 



Rule 8. All fees for inspection shall be determined upon a basis of the actual 

 cost of the same. 



Rule 9. Tags or labels for use as prescribed in rules 1 and 3 may be procured 

 from the secretary of the board of agriculture at actual cost, the prices being 

 as follows, to wit : Seventy-five cents for the first hundred and 30 cents for each 

 additional hundred, postpaid, or. in larger lots, by express at purchaser's ex- 

 pense, per 500, $1.75 ; per 1,000, $2.50 ; cash to accompany order in all cases. 



Rules and Regulations Concerning Cotton Seed. 



Rule 1. For the purpose of preventing the introduction of the Mexican cotton 

 boll weevil into the Territory of Oklahoma from the State of Texas, where the 

 same is now known to exist, a rigid quarantine is hereby declared against the 

 following counties in the State of Texas, to wit, Anderson, Angelina, Aransas, 

 Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Bowie, Brazos, 

 Brazoria, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Calhoun, Cameron, Camp, Cass, 

 Chambers, Cherokee, Collin, Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Cooke. Coryell. Dallas, 

 Delta, Denton, Dewitt, Duval, Eastland, Ellis, Erath. Falls, Fannin, Fa^-ette, 

 Fort Bend, Franklin, Freestone, Galveston, Gillespie, Goliad, Gonzales, Grayson, 

 Gregg, Grimes, Guadalupe, Hamilton, Hardin, Harris. Harrison, Hays, Hender- 

 son, Hidalgo, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Houston, Hunt, Jack, Jackson, Jasper, 

 Jefferson, Johnson, Karnes, Kaufman. Kent, Lamar, Lampasas, Lavaca, Lee, 

 Leon, Liberty. Limestone. Live Oak, Llano, Madison, Matagorda, Marion, 

 McLennan. McMullen, Milam, Mills, Montgomery, Morris, Nacogdoches, Navarro, 

 Nueces. Newton, Orange, Palo Pinto, Panola. Parker, Polk, Rains, Red River, 

 Refugio, Robertson, Rockwell, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, San 

 Patricio, San Saba, Shelby, Smith, Somervell, Starr, Stephens, Tarrant, Titu^, 

 Travis, Trinitj-, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt, Victoria, Waller, Walker, Washington, 

 Wharton, Williamson, Wilson, Wise, Wood, and also against the following 

 parishes in Louisiana, Sabine, Vernon, Calcasieu, and De Soto, as well as 

 against all other counties of Texas or parishes of Louisiana where the said 

 Mexican boll weevil may be known to exist ; and in order to prevent the intro- 

 duction into the Territory of Oklahoma of the said Mexican boll weevil it is 

 hereby declared : 



Rule 2. That no cotton seed, cotton-seed hulls, seed cotton, and cotton-seed 

 sacks (which have been used), cotton pickers' sacks, corn in the shuck, unsacked 

 corn, unsacked oats, unsacked wheat, unsacked oats, and unsacked cowpeas shall 



