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or their agent Any person or persons shall have legal recourse against the 

 bond for any damages accruing from the sale of or delivery of infected nursery 

 stock. All licenses issued by the commissioner of horticulture shall bear the 

 name of the solicitor, agent, or salesman and shall not be transferable. Any 

 solicitor or agent falsely representing any nursery, firm, corporation, or tree 

 dealer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to a fine of not less 

 than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, and such conviction shall ipso 

 facto work a forfeiture of his license. Any license granted to any person, firm, 

 corporation, or tree dealer shall be suspended in its operation by the commis- 

 sioner of horticulture upon the report of any inspector that said person, firm, 

 corporation, or tree dealer has introduced infected stoclv into the State of Wash- 

 ington, and if upon examination by the commissioner such report of the inspector 

 shall be found to be supported by facts, such license shall at once be revoked. 

 The license fee for nurserymen and tree dealers shall be five dollars, and for 

 their agents or salesmen, who shall be furnished an authentic copy, two dollars 

 and fifty cents. Said money shall be collected by the State horticultural com- 

 missioner and paid to the treasurer of the State of Washington. All licenses 

 shall expire on the first day of April, 1905, and on the first day of April every 

 second year thereafter. 



Sec. 7 (as amended by act of 1905). It shall be the duty of every person, firm, 

 corporation, or tree dealer licensed to do business under this act to notify the 

 horticultural commissioner of his intention to ship an invoice of fruit trees, 

 plants, or nursery stock from one point to another within the State, or to import 

 an invoice of similar goods from without to any point within the State, whether 

 for the purpose of sale or for personal use. Such notice shall contain the name 

 and address of both consignor and consignee and a descriptive invoice of the 

 goods to be shipped, the. freight or express office at which the goods are to be 

 delivered, and the name or title of the transportation company from which the 

 consignees received such goods. A copy of such notice shall also be mailed to 

 The county fruit inspector in the county in which the point of destination is 

 located. Such notices shall be mailed not later than the date of such shipment. 

 Upon receipt at destination of any invoice of fruit trees, plants, or nursery 

 stock, it shall be the duty of the freight agent, express agent, or other trans- 

 portation company's employee having such invoice of fruit trees, plants, or 

 nursery stock in charge to notify the county fruit inspector within whose juris- 

 diction said invoice is received of the receipt of said invoice, naming consignor 

 and consignee, and that said invoice is ready for inspection, notification to be 

 by telegraph or telephone, and to hold said invoice for inspection by the county 

 fruit inspector before delivering said invoice of fruit trees, plants, or nursery 

 stock to the consignee, excepting that said invoice need not be held more than 

 twenty-four hours after notification is made to the county fruit inspector. 

 The said inspection not to be made by the county fruit inspector until the 

 freight, express, or other transportation charges are paid, unless the freight 

 agent, express agent, or other transportation company's employee in charge of 

 said invoice consents to said inspection being made before said charges are 

 paid. 



Sec. 8 ( as amended by act of 1905 ) . Any person, firm, corporation, or tree 

 dealer who shall sell within this State, or import into this State, any fruit, 

 scions, fruit trees, plants, or nursery stock in violation of the provisions of this 

 act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall 

 be fined for each offense in any sum not less than fifty nor more than one hun- 

 dred dollars. 



Sec. 9. Any person who shall offer for sale, or solicit persons within this State 



