162 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 



society, and the better to promote and protect the horticultural interests of the 

 county, the society will nominate three qualified persons for county inspector of 

 fruit, fruit trees, orchards, plants, boxes, barrels, and other packages in which 

 fruit or fruit trees have been shipped. The nomination shall be made to the 

 board of commissioners (of the county wherein said society is organized), who 

 are hereby authorized and required to appoint such person as county fruit 

 inspector for a term of two years, deliver to him a certificate of appointment, 

 and mail a duplicate copy of said certificate to the commissioner of horticulture : 

 Provided, however, That county inspectors shall be required fo pass a satis- 

 factory examination before the State horticultural commissioner, or the faculty 

 of the agricultural college, before they are authorized to perform the duties of 

 their oflice. In counties where no horticultural society exists, the county com- 

 missioner shall select and appoint a suitable person to act as county inspector, 

 and report their action to the commissioner of horticulture for confirmation. All 

 county fruit inspectors shall be entitled to such pay for their services as the 

 board of county commissioners of the county in which their work was performed 

 may direct. Any county inspector shall be removed by the commissioner of 

 horticulture for incompetency, neglect of duty, or other sufficient cause, upon 

 complaint filed with him signed by the proper officers of the horticultural society 

 in the county in which such inspector is sought to be removed: Provided, That 

 no such removal shall be made without giving such inspector a hearing and ten 

 days' notice of the time and place thereof, such hearing to be had before the 

 commissioner of horticulture. In order to furnish to the office of the commis- 

 sioner of horticulture information regarding the condition of orchards through- 

 out the State, and to determine the compensation of such county inspectors, they 

 t^hall make monthly reports to the commissioner of horticulture under oath upon 

 blanks furnished by said commissioner. All county fruit inspectors shall make 

 a monthly report to the county commissioners of their county, setting forth the 

 number of days' work performed and character thereof, and make oath to the 

 correctness of such statement and furnish necessary vouchers upon which the 

 county commissioners shall determine the accuracy of their accounts ; such 

 m.onthly report and rendition of account shall be sworn to by the county inspector 

 before the clerk of the county court. Anj- county inspector who shall in said 

 report under oath falsely state the number of days' work he has actually per- 

 formed in any month, shall be deemed guilty of perjury and upon conviction 

 thereof shall be liable to the penalty provided by law therefor. 



Sec. 5 (as amended by act of 1905). No person, firm, corporation, or tree dealer 

 shall engage or continue in the business of selling as agent, solicitor, or other- 

 wise within the State or importing fruit trees, planats, or nursery stock into the 

 State without having first obtained a license to carrj' on such business in this 

 State, as in this act provided. 



Sec. 6 (as amended by act of 1905). Any person, firm, corporation, or tree 

 dealer, agent, or solicitor may obtain a license to engage or continue in the busi- 

 ness of selling and importing fruit trees, plants, or nursery stock into this State 

 by submitting his application therefor to the commissioner of horticulture, to- 

 gether with a satisfactory bond of one thousand dollars made in conformity 

 with the laws of the State of Washington. All bonds submitted shall be made 

 in conformity with the laws of the State of Washington, such bond to be ap- 

 proved by and filed with the said commissioner, conditioned that the principal 

 and his or their agents will faithfully obey the provisions of this act. the laws 

 of the State of Washington, and that the said principal pays the costs of inspec- 

 tion and destruction of all infected nursery stock, or other material or goods 

 imported into and sold within such district of this State by said principal, his 



