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Sec. 14. For the extirpation of serious, noncurable tree diseases, sucli as 

 pear bliglit, crown gall, peach yellows, peach rosette, upon discovery of said 

 diseases the county fruit-tree inspector shall notify the owner or owners, per- 

 son or persons in charge or possession of said trees or shrubs, of such fact, and 

 shall require such persons to extirpate the said disease by destroying the affected 

 trees or shrubs by burning within a certain time, to be specified in said notice, 

 said notice to be served upon the person or persons owning or having charge 

 of such infected trees as aforesaid by any inspector, or they may be served the 

 same as a summons in a civil action. If the owner or owners, person or per- 

 sons in charge or possession of said trees or shrubs, after having been notified 

 as above by said inspector to destroy the same as directed, shall fail, neglect, or 

 refuse so to do, they shall be deemed guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, and 

 the case shall be reported to the county attorney, who shall file a complaint, and 

 it shall be speedily adjudicated; and if charges are found correct the court 

 shall order the same destroyed or removed, the costs to be paid within ten days 

 by the owner or person in charge ; if not, it shall be paid by the county, and 

 it shall be collected by the county attorney, with costs, and paid into the county 

 treasury. 



Sec. 15. The county inspector shall make monthlj^ reports to the county com- 

 missioners and to the secretary of the State board of horticulture on forms pre- 

 scribed by the said board. Said reports shall embrace the labors of the county 

 inspector and his deputies for the month and statistics showing the general con- 

 dition of horticulture within the county, together with such statement of facts 

 and recommendations as he may deem useful to the horticultural interests of 

 the county. The secretary of the State board shall make a biennial report to 

 the secretary of state the first day of December preceding the meeting of the 

 State legislature, and the secretary of state shall cause 5,000 copies of the same 

 to be published in a pamphlet or book form for. distribution as other State 

 publications. 



Sec 16. It shall be the duty of every owner, possessor, or occupier of any 

 orchards, nursery, garden lot, or land where fruit trees are grown within this 

 State to remove from said land and destroy by burning all diseased or decayed 

 branches of fruit trees affected with pear blight and to burn and destroy all dead 

 trees and trees affected with peach rosette or peach yellows. 



Sec 17. It shall not be lawful for any nurseryman, corporation, or private 

 individual to import into this State or to ship in the State any trees, shrubs, or 

 vines, unless the same are properly certified to by a professor of entomology 

 of a Government experiment station, or an officer of a State board of horticul- 

 ture or a regular examiner and appointed county inspector, operating in the 

 regular discharge of their duties, as having been fumigated or disinfected by 

 hydrocyanic acid gas before shipment. Importations of trees or shrubs unac- 

 companied by such certificate of fumigation shall be held in quarantine at 

 owner's risk until so fumigated, at the cost of the importer. Said fumigation 

 shall be made to the satisfaction of the county fruit-tree inspector or of the 

 member for that district of the State board of horticulture. 



Sec 18. It shall be the duty of any and all owners of any nursery or nurseries 

 or nursery stock to disinfect by the use of hydrocyanic gas all their nursery 

 stock for the destruction of insects or diseases injurious to fruit trees or shrubs 

 before removing the same, or any of it, from their premises for sale, gift, dis- 

 tribution, or transportation. 



Sec 19. The State board of horticulture shall have power to authorize the 

 holding of State horticultural exhibitions, and shall determine the time and 

 place for holding said exhibitions, with power to arrange for premiums and 



