124 LAWS AGAINST INJUEIOUS INSECTS. 



be offered for sale, are hereby required to report to the commissioner of the dis- 

 trict in which said nursery stock, trees, or plants are grown, for inspection dur- 

 ing the months of September, October, or November of each and every year : 

 and the commissioner of such district, or his duly appointed deputy, shall in- 

 spect such nursery stock, trees, or plants prior to shipment and delivery. When 

 said nursery stock, trees, or plants are found by said inspecting officer to be 

 worthy of a certificate, setting forth the freedom of such nursery stock, trees, or 

 plants from live, injurious insect pests, their eggs, larvae, pupae, or fungous 

 disease, the said inspecting officer shall then issue to the owner or owners of said 

 nursery stock, trees, or plants a certificate of inspection. The condition under 

 which this certificate is granted is, that the party or parties receiving such cer- 

 tificate shall be compelled to disinfect by fumigation with hydrocyanic-acid gas, 

 as described in rule 8, all pear and apple trees, or other stock grown on apple 

 roots, after lifting the same and before delivery to purchaser or carriers ; and, 

 in case such fumigation is neglected, said certificate of inspection shall be void 

 and of no effect. 



Passed at a meeting of the State board of horticulture at Portland, Oregon, 

 April 3, 1895, and amended at a regular meeting of the State board of horticul- 

 ture at Salem, Oregon, October 15, A. D. 1895. 



r-AW OF 1905. 



An Act to provide for the appointment of county fruit inspectors and to amend sections 

 4178 and 4185 of the Codes and Statutes of Oregon as compiled and annotated hy 

 Charles B. Bellinger and William W. Cotton. 



Be it enacted hy the people of the State of Oregon: 



Section 1. That upon a petition of not less than twenty-five residents and fruit 

 growers of any county in this State the county court of said county shall appoint 

 a county inspector whose duty it shall be to inspect the apple and other fruit 

 orchards of said county and to enforce the laws now in force and that may be 

 hereafter in force in this State applicable to the fruit industry and to the grow- 

 ing, handling, and selling of fruit, fruit trees, and other nursery stock : Pro- 

 vided, That the inspector so to be appointed shall be recommended and certified 

 to be competent for such position by the State district commissioner of the State 

 board of horticulture for the said county, and said county inspector shall hold 

 his office during the pleasure of said county court. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the State district commissioner to instruct and 

 educate the county inspectors as to the laws and quarantine regulations of this 

 State and the rules and regulations of the State board of horticulture. 



The county inspector shall perform his duties under the general supervisions 

 of the State district commissioner for said county, to whom he shall make 

 reports in the manner prescribed by the State board of horticulture. 



Sec. 3. Such county inspector shall be paid for his services by the said county 

 a sum not exceeding $3 per day and pay his own personal expenses for each and 

 every day actually employed in the performance of his duties as herein pro- 

 vided, and the said county inspector shall report monthly to the said State dis- 

 trict commissioner the time for which he is entitled to pay during the month 

 next preceding and the said State district commissioner shall certify the same 

 to the county court before such compensation shall be paid to said county 

 inspector. 



Sec. 4. If any county for any reason fails to appoint a county inspector as 

 herein provided, then the inspector of any adjacent county may perform such 



