126 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 



shall be the duty of the board or the member thereof in whose district said 

 nuisance shall exist, or the secretary or county inspector under his or their 

 directions, to cause such nuisance to be at once abated by eradicating or destroy- 

 ing said insects or pests, or their eggs or larvte, or by treating or disinfecting 

 or destroying the infested or diseased articles. The expense thereof shall be a 

 county charge, and the county court shall allow and pay the same out of the 

 general fund of the county. Any and all sums so paid shall be and become a 

 lien on the property and premises from which said nuisance shall have been 

 removed or abated in pursuance of this act, and may be recovered by a suit 

 in equity against such property or premises, which suit to foreclose such liens 

 shall be brought in the circuit court of the county where the premises are 

 situate by the district attorney in the name and for the benefit of the county 

 making such payment or payments. 



The proceedings in such cases shall be governed by the same rules, as far as 

 may be applicable, as suits to foreclose mechanics' liens, and the property shall 

 be sold under the order of the court and the proceeds applied in like manner. 

 The board is hereby invested with the power to cause such nuisance to be abated 

 in a summary manner. 



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An Act to provide for the protection of trees, slirubs, vines, and plants against destruc- 

 tive insects and diseases ; providing for the enforcement of this act, the expenses con- 

 nected therewith, and fixing penalties for its violation. 



Section' 1. Be it enacted, dc, That no person shall knowingly or wilfully 

 keep any tree, shrub, vine, or plant in any nursery, orchard, or public or private 

 grounds in this Commonwealth, nor knowingly or willingly send out from such 

 nursery any tree, shrub, vine, or plant affected with San Jose scale, or other 

 insects or diseases, such as crown-gall, black-knot, or peach-yellows, destructive 

 of such tree, vine, shrub, or plant. 



Sec 2. It shall be the duty of the secretary of agriculture, through the eco- 

 nomic zoologist, or such other agent or agents as he may select, to cause an 

 examination to be made, at least once each year, of each and every nursery in 

 this State where trees, shrubs, vines, or plants are grown ; and he may also, by 

 himself or agent, make inspection of any orchard, or other grounds or place, in 

 this State, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the trees, shrubs, vines, or 

 plants therein kept are infested with San Jose scale or other insect pests, or dis- 

 eases destructive of such trees, shrubs, vines, or plants. If, after such examina- 

 tion of any nursery, it be found that the said trees, shrubs, vines, or other 

 plants, so examined, are apparently free in all respects from any such danger- 

 ously injurious insects or diseases, the secretary of agriculture, or his duly 

 authorized agent, or other person designated to make* such examination, shall 

 thereupon issue to the owner or proprietor of the said stock thus examined a 

 certificate setting forth the fact of the examination and that the stock or trees 

 SG examined are apparently free from any and all such destructive insects and 

 diseases. 



Sec 3. Should any nurseryman, agent, dealer, or broker send out or deliver 

 within the State trees, vines, shrubs, plants, buds, or cuttings, commonly known 

 as nursery stock, and which are subject to the attacks of the insects and dis- 

 eases disignated in this act, unless he has in his possession a copy of said certifi- 

 cate, dated within the year thereof, or wrongfully be in possession of said cer- 

 tificate, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be pun- 

 ished in accordance with the provisions of section eight of this act. 



