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destruction, and he shall certify to the owner or person in charge of the prem- 

 ises the amount of the cost of said treatment, removal, or destruction, and if 

 not paid to him within sixty days thereafter, the same may be recovered, 

 together with the costs of action. 



Sec. 8. Any person violating the provisions of this act, or offering any hin- 

 drance to the carrying out of this act, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and, upon conviction before a magistrate or justice of the peace, shall be fined 

 not less than ten dollars and not more than one hundred dollars for each and 

 every offense, together with all the costs of the prosecution, and shall stand 

 committed until the same is paid. All necessary expenses under the provisions 

 of this act shall, after approval in writing by the secretary of agriculture and 

 auditor-general, be paid by the State treasurer upon warrant of the auditor- 

 general in the manner now provided by law : Provided, That not more than 

 thirty thousand dollars shall be so expended for this purpose in any one year. 



Sec 9. All penalties and costs recovered for the violation of any of the pro- 

 visions of this act shall be paid to the secretary of agriculture, or his agent, and 

 by him immediately covered into the State treasury, to be kept as a fund for 

 the use of the department of agriculture in the enforcement of this act, and 

 may be drawn out upon vouchers signed by the secretary of agriculture and 

 approved by the auditor-general, and shall not merge with the general fund at 

 the close of any fiscal year. 



Sec. 10. The provisions of this act shall not apply to florists' greenhouse 

 plants and flowers, known as greenhouse stock, of varieties not attacked by 

 San Jose scale or other injurious insects or diseases, nor shall they apply to 

 ornamental trees and shrubs of varieties not liable to infestation with San Jose 

 scale and liable to injury by fumigation. 



Sec. 11. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act 

 be, and the same are hereby, repealed. 



Approved the 31st day of March, A. D. 1905. 



PORTO RICO. 



A Bill to provide for the protection against the importation of plant diseases or insects 



harmful to plants. 



Be it enacted T)y the legislative assembly of Porto Rico: 



Section 1. No coffee tree or plant, or any portion thereof, or the seeds of same 

 (except roasted coffee for domestic consumption), and no rooted citrus plants 

 or cuttings, and no cotton seed, seed cotton, cotton lint, loose or in bales, shall be 

 brought into the island of Porto Rico from any State or Territory or other 

 country' whatsoever without having attached thereto, in a prominent and con- 

 spicuous place, a certificate under oath signed by a duly authorized State or 

 Government entomologist, stating that such trees, plants, roots, seed hulls or seed 

 or any and all portions thereof are free from disease : Provided. That in the 

 case of cotton seed, seed cotton, cotton-seed hulls, or cotton lint, such certificate 

 shall state in addition that the shipment originated in a locality where, by 

 actual inspection by said attesting official or his agent, the Mexican boll weevil 

 was not found to exist. 



Sec. 2, None of the provisions of this act shall be construed as preventing the 

 importation by the United States agricultural experiment station, without such 

 certificate, of any trees, plants, shrubs, cuttings, seeds, roots, or bulbs required 

 by it for experimental and official use, providing that such station notify the 

 governor in writing of all shipments so made. 



