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(a) No cotton lint (loose, baled, flat, or compressed), cotton seed, seed cot- 

 ton, cotton-seed hulls, seed-cotton or cotton-seed sacks (which have been used), 

 or corn in the shuck shall be shipped into Tennessee from the infested coun- 

 ties of Texas and parishes of Louisiana, as above enumerated. 



(b) Shipments of household goods from the infested areas of Texas and 

 Louisiana shall not be admitted into Tennessee unless accompanied by an affi- 

 davit attached to the waybill, to the effect that the shipment contains no cotton 

 lint, cotton seed, seed cotton, cotton-seed hulls, seed-cotton or cotton-seed sacks, 

 or corn in the shuck. 



(c) It shall be unlawful for anyone in Tennessee to have in his possession 

 live Mexican cotton boll weevils. The public is urged to recognize the danger 

 of introducing unwittingly live boll weevils for inspection, observation, or ex- 

 periment. 



Adopted February 12, 1906. 



TEXAS. 



An Act to prevent the keeping of certain fruit trees affected with yellows, crown gall, 

 black knot, or any tree, shrub, or plant Infested with or by San Jose scale or other 

 dangerous, injurious, or destructive pest ; ahd declaring such affected and infested 

 trees, shrubs, and plants a public nuisance, and making it the duty of the commis- 

 sioner of agriculture, insurance, statistics, and history to seek out and destroy such 

 trees, shrubs, and plants, or cause the same to be done, or to have such affected or 

 infested trees treated ; and providing the manner of such destruction and treatment, 

 and for an investigation by the commissioner of agriculture, insurance, statistics, and 

 history when he believes, or has reason to believe, that any such diseases or pests may 

 exist in this Stato, and providing the manner of combating such diseases and pests, 

 and the prevention of their spread and dissemination ; providing for the examination 

 of nurseries and giving certificates to that effect; regulating the importation of trees, 

 shrubs, and plants from without the State ; forbidding the selling, consigning, or 

 shipping of nursery stock without such certificates ; providing for the fumigation of 

 certain trees, shrubs, and plants ; providing penalties, and making an appropriation, 

 and declaring an emergency. 



Section 1. Be it enacted Tjy tlie legislature of the State of Texas, No person 

 in this State shall knowingly or willfully keep any peach, almond, apricot, or 

 nectarine trees affected with the contagious disease known as yellows. Nor 

 shall any person keep any peach, plum, or other tree affected with crown or 

 root gall, nor shall any person knowingly or willfully keep any plum, cherry, 

 or other trees affected with the contagious disease or fungus known as black 

 knot, nor any tree, shrub, or plant infested with or by the San Jose scale or other 

 insect pest dangerously injurious to or destructive of trees, shrubs, or other 

 plants ; every such tree, shrub, or plant shall be a public nuisance, and as such 

 shall be abated, and no damage shall be awarded for entering upon premises 

 upon which there are trees, shrubs, or plants infected with yellows, black knot, 

 crown gall, or other infectious dangerous disease, or infected with San Jose 

 scale or other dangerous insect pest, for the purpose of legally inspecting the 

 same, nor shall any damages be awarded for the destruction by the commis- 

 sioner of agriculture, insurance, statistics,, and history, or his duly authorized 

 agents or representatives, of such trees, shrubs, or plants, or altogether destroy- 

 ing such trees if necessary to suppress such disease, if done in accordance with 

 the provisions of this article, except as otherwise herein provided. Every per- 

 son, when he becomes aware of the existence of such disease or insect pest in any 

 tree owned by him, shall forthwith report the same to the commissioner of agri- 

 culture, at Austin, Texas, and the said commissioner shall take such action as 

 the law provides. If in the judgment of said commissioner, or the person or 



