156 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 



tion to the owners of all infested premises, and to the board of superTif5ors of 

 the said county or the city council of said city, giving the location of all said 

 infested trees and plants, and the extent of infestation in each case, and make 

 specific recommendations in accordance with the instructions furnished him by 

 the State entomologist, which instructions may be printed or written. 



Sec. 10. The board of supervisors of any county or city council of any city 

 in which a local inspector has been appointed shall fix the compensation of 

 such local inspector, whose pay, however, shall not in any case be less than 

 one dollar and fifty cents for each day's work, and said local inspector shall 

 file before the said board of supervisors or city council from time to time an 

 itemized account of the expenses and costs incurred in the performance of his 

 duties, and a statement of the days actually occupied in the performance of the 

 duties hereinbefore prescribed, and the same shall be allowed him and paid as 

 other claims against the county or city, not to exceed two hundred and fifty 

 dollars in any one year. But the board of supervisors of any county or the 

 council of any city may appropriate any sum in excess of two hundred and fifty 

 dollars which it may deem proper. The sum appropriated in any year in 

 excess of the actual requirements of such year shall not be considered as an 

 fippropriation for any subsequent year. 



Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of the State entomologist, either in person or by 

 an assistant or local inspector, to supervise and direct the execution of any 

 recommendations made under the provisions of section two of this act, and all 

 expenses of treatment, control, and eradication of any infested trees or plants 

 shall be borne by the owner of the premises upon which the same are located, 

 as provided for in sections four and five of this act. 



Sec. 12. From and after the first day of September, nineteen hundred and 

 three, it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm, or corporation, either 

 for himself or as agent for another, to offer for sale, sell, deliver, or give 

 away, within the bounds of this State, any plants or parts of plants commonly 

 known as nursery stock, unless such person, persons, firm, or corporation shall 

 have first procured from the auditor of public accounts a certificate of regis- 

 tration, which certificate shall contain sucli rules and regulations concerning 

 the sale of nursery stock as the board of crop pest commissioners may pre- 

 scribe and be approved and countersigned by the State entomologist, who 

 shall have full power and is hereby authorized and required to cancel and with- 

 draw any certificate upon satisfactory evidence that any of the rules and regu- 

 lations governing the sale of nursery stock within this State have been violated 

 by the holder of the same. The auditor of public accounts shall not issue any 

 certificate of registration except upon the payment of the sum of twenty dol- 

 lars, and shall forward all certificates to the State entomologist for his ap- 

 proval before allowing the same to the party making application therefor, and 

 all such certificates as may be granted shall expire and become null and void 

 one year from date of issue thereof, and any person, persons, firm, or corpora- 

 tion, either for himself or as an agent for another, who shall sell, offer for sale, 

 deliver, or give away any plants or parts of plants commonly known as nursery 

 stock without having in his possession a certificate of registration as herein 

 provided for, or without exhibiting a copy of the same to each and every person 

 to whom he shall sell or offer to sell, deliver, or give away any such plants, or 

 parts of plants, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction 

 thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty ($20.00) dollars 

 nor more than one hundred ($100.00) dollars for each such offence. 



Sec. lo. The auditor of public accounts shall set aside and reserve all moneys 

 coming into his hands in pursuance of the provisions of section twelve of this 



