154 LAWS AGAINST INJUKIOUS INSECTS. 



duties as hereinafter provided. It shall be the duty of the said board to appoint 

 a competent person as State entomologist and plant pathologist,, hereinafter called 

 State entomologist, and such assistants as may be necessars', >Yho shall, acting 

 under the authority of the said board, be charged \yith and perform such duties 

 as are hereinafter specified. The board of crop pest commissioners shall from 

 time to time, after due consideration, prepare a list of such dangerously inju- 

 rious insect pest and diseases of plants as may properly, within its judgment 

 and the judgment of the State entomologist, be controlled or eradicated, and 

 they shall cause such list to be published, along with particular specification 

 as to the nature and appearance of and the manner in whicli the said pests are 

 generally disseminated. The board of crop pest commissioners shall at the 

 same time provide rules and regulations under which the State entomologist 

 shall proceed to investigate, control, eradicate, and prevent the dissemination 

 of the said pests as far as may be possible, and these rules and regulations shah 

 have the full force and effect of law so far as they conform to this act and the 

 general laws of this State and of the United States ; and any person, firm, or 

 corporation who fails or refuses to comply with the order or directions issued 

 in writing, under regulations provided by the board of crop pest commis 

 sioners, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of not less than ten 

 ($10.00) nor more than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars for each such failure or 

 refusal : Provided, That all prosecution under this act shall be by indictment, 

 presentment, or information in the circuit court of the county or corporation 

 court of the city in which the person, firm, or corporation proceeded against is 

 then resident. 



Sec. 2. The board of crop pest commissioners shall have power to provide 

 quarantine rules and regulations concerning the sale and transportation of all 

 plants or parts of plants, commonly known as nursery stock, within the State. 

 They shall also have power to provide like rules and regulations in regard to 

 all plants or parts of plants, commonly known as nursery stock, entering this 

 State from without, and these rules and regulations shall be enforced by the 

 State entomologist or his duly authorized assistants. 



Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of this board to provide for the annual inspection 

 of all nursery stock grown within the State prior to October first of each year, 

 by the State entomologist or his assistants, who shall issue a certificate of free- 

 dom from insect pests and plant diseases to the owners of all nurseries found 

 entitled to the same, and thej'- shall further provide regulations under which 

 nursery stock brought into the State may be sold under the above-provided 

 certificates, and in accordance with the further provisions of this act. It 

 shall be unlawful after the promulgation of the rules and regulations provided 

 for in this act for any person, persons, corporation, or common carriers to trans- 

 port by land or water plants or parts of plants, commonly known as nursery 

 stock, in violation of the same, and every such offence shall constitute a mis- 

 demeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, the person, persons, firm, or corpora- 

 tion, or common carrier so convicted shall be fined in the sum of not less 

 than fifty ($50) dollars nor more than one hundred <$100) dollars for each 

 and every violation of this act. 



Sec. 4. The State entomologist or any of his assistants, or a local inspector 

 as hereinafter provided for, shall have power under the rules and regulations of 

 said board to determine the nature and method of the treatment to which any 

 infested plants shall be subjected, and he shall report his findings in print or 

 writing, giving reasons therefor, to the owner of the infested plants, his agents 

 or tenants, and a copy of such report shall be sul)mitted to said board, and there 

 shall accompany each and every such report specific directions as to the treat- 



