130 LAWS AGAINST INJUEIOUS INSECTS. 



RHODE ISLAIS^D. 



Chapter 1159. 



An Act to authorize the State board of agriculture to appoint a State nursery inspector, 

 and to provide for the protection of trees and shrubs from injurious insects and 

 diseases. 



It is enacted by the general assembly as foUoios: 



Section 1. The State board of agriculture may annually appoint some person, 

 qualified by scientific training and practical experience, to be State nursery in- 

 spector, who shall be responsible to the board for the performance of his duties 

 as prescribed in this act. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the State nursery inspector to inspect, under 

 the direction of said board, all nurseries or places in the State where nursery 

 stock is grown, sold, or offered for sale, and if no dangerous insect or fungus 

 pests are fund therein a certificate to that effect shall be given. If such pests 

 are found therein the owner of the stock shall take such measures to suppress 

 the same as the State nursery inspector shall prescribe, and no certificate shall 

 be given until the said inspector has satisfied himself by subsequent inspection 

 that all such pests have been suppressed. 



Sec. 3. Owners of nurseries or of places in the State' where nursery stock is 

 grown, sold, or offered for sale, who do not hold an unexpired certificate of in- 

 spection after the first annual inspection made after the passage of this act, 

 who shall sell or otherwise dispose of nursery stock in the State shall be sub- 

 ject to a penalty of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each offence. 



Sec. 4. Owners of nurseries or of places in the State where nursery stock 

 is grown, sold, or offered for sale, who shall fumigate with hydrocyanic acid 

 gas all stock which they sell, using at least two-tenths of a gram of potassic 

 cyanide to every cubic foot of space contained in the box, house, or other place 

 wherein this fumigation is performed, which place shall be gas tight, and who 

 shall expose the said stock to the fumes of this gas of the strength aforesaid 

 for at least forty minutes, or who shall treat the stock which they sell by some 

 other method approved by the State nursery inspector, and who shall make 

 affidavit before an officer authorized to administer oaths that all stock sold by 

 them has thus been fumigated or treated, and who shall attach a copy of 

 such affidavit to each package, box, or car of stock sold, shall be exempt from 

 the provisions of sections two and three of this act. 



Sec. 5. All nursery stock shipped into this State from any other State, coun- 

 try, or province shall bear on each box or package a certificate that the contents 

 of said box or package have been inspected by a duly authorized inspecting 

 officer and that said contents appear to be free from all dangerous insects or 

 diseases. In case nursery stock is brought within the State without such a cer- 

 tificate the consignee shall return it to the consignor at the exjtense of the 

 latter : Provided, hoiuever, That any package or box bearing a certificate of 

 fumigation which meets the requirements specified in section four of this act 

 may be accepted as though bearing a proper certificate of inspection. 



Sec. 6. The State nursery inspector shall at all times have the right to enter 

 any public or private grounds in the performance of any duty required by this 

 act. He shall receive from the annual appropriation of the State board of 

 agriculture such compensation as said board may determine, 



Sec. 7. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



Passed April 13, 1904. 



