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box, bundle, or package of trees, shrubs, cuttings, vines, bujbs, or roots shipped 

 by parties residing without the limits of this State to any consignee at any 

 station in this State unless each box, bundle, or package is plainly labeled with 

 a certificate of inspection furnished by the official entomologist of the State in 

 which said stock was grown and also with the official tag of this board herein 

 provided for. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this section 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined 

 in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. TTor the enforcement of this 

 section the sheriff of each county in the State is hereby authorized and 

 empowered, and it shall further be his duty, to seize such goods that do^ not 

 bear the oflScial tag of this board and hold the same until inspected and pro- 

 nounced by the entomologist, w^hom he shall notify at once, to be free from the 

 diseases and insects declared to be injurious by the said board. 



Sec. 13. When two or more reputable citizens of any county in this State 

 notify the chairman of the State board of entomology that noxious insects or 

 plant diseases exist in their county it shall be his duty to have the entomologist 

 promptly investigate the matter and take such steps as authorized and pre- 

 scribed in this act and by the State board of entomology. 



Sec. 14. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 



Approved the 23d day of February, A. D. 1903. 



Rules and Regulations Adopted by the State Board of Entomology. 



1. The entomologist at Clemson College, who shall be known as State ento- 

 mologist, shall direct the work required under this act. He shall inspect every 

 nursery in the State before the first day of November of each year. All nursery- 

 men and dealers of nursery stock residing within and without the State who do 

 business within the limits of the State of South Carolina, must not sell, trans- 

 port, or give away any nursery stock, unless the same is accompanied by a certi- 

 ficate from the State board of entomology declaring the same to be apparently 

 free from insects and plant diseases herein listed as dangerously injurious. All 

 such certificates are invalid after the first day of June of each year and must be 

 renewed before the first day of November of that year. When nursery premises 

 are found to be infested, the certificate of freedom from injurious insects and 

 plant diseases will be withheld until the instructions of the entomologist for the 

 treatment of same have been obeyed. Infested orchards shall be treated when- 

 ever discovered. The owners of infested nurseries or orchards shall pay all cost 

 for such treatment, except the traveling and hotel expenses of the entomologist. 



The entomologist shall exercise all due diligence to see that the law is complied 

 with, and he shall publish, from time to time, circulars and reports relating to 

 the inspection work, and bulletins containing an account of the habits of and 

 treatment for the injurious insects and plant diseases. 



In the office of the entomologist, there shall be kept, on file, a list of nursery- 

 men and dealers of nursery stock, living within and without the State, and doing 

 business within the State, and a list of localities within the State where the San 

 Jose scale and other dangerously injurious insects and plant diseases have been 

 found. 



All correspondence relating to the inspection, certification, and treatment of 

 trees, plants, and all kinds of nursery stock should be addressed to the State 

 entomologist, who shall also act as secretary to the State board of entomology. 



2. The following insects and plant diseases are declared by the State board of 

 entomology to be dangerously injurious and the introduction of the same is 



