164 LAWS AGAINST INJUEIOUS INSECTS. 



to purchase from him. any fruit trees, plants, or nursery stock belonging to any 

 person or firm not licensed under the provisions of this act shall be deemed 

 guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor 

 exceeding one hundred dollars. All fines imposed for the violation of the pro- 

 visions of this act shall be paid to the treasurer of the county wherein the viola- 

 tion was committed and be placed to the credit of the general fund of such 

 county. 



Sec. 10. For the purpose of preventing the introduction and spread of conta- 

 gious diseases, fruit pests, spores, and fungus growth among fruit trees and 

 plants and other nursery stock and for the disinfecting and cure of fruit dis- 

 eases, pests, spores, and fungus growths, the commissioner of horticulture shall 

 prescribe such remedies as he shall deem best, describe and formulate such 

 remedies with their proper mode of application, with such additional instruc- 

 tions as he may deem necessary, into a circular or bulletin, which he shall have 

 printed and distributed to the several county horticultural societies and 

 inspectors of the State. He shall include also in said bulletin the rules and 

 regulations under which a person, firm, or corporation may lawfully sell, import 

 into this State, and sell or authorize to be sold fruit trees, plants, or nursery 

 stock, and the penalty to be incurred for the violation of these rules. He shall 

 prepare also a poster which shall contain said rules, regulations, and penalties, 

 which shall be distributed with said bulletin. County inspectors are directed 

 to put up such posters in not less than three conspicuous places in their county, 

 one of which places must be in front of the county court-house. The commis- 

 sioner of horticulture shall hear and promptly decide all appeals from the 

 county inspectors, and his decision shall have full force and effect until set 

 aside by the courts of the State. In all cases of appeal he shall disregard 

 technicalities and decide each and every case on its merits. All appeals from 

 county inspectors to commissioners shall be under forms and regulations pre- 

 scribed by the commissioner. The commissioner shall approve or reject all 

 bonds required by law to be submitted to him, and he shall file and safely keep 

 all bonds and other papers by law required to be filed with him, and shall, 

 upon the expiration of his term of oflice, turn over the same to his successor. 

 He shall examine all fruit, specimens of fruit trees, shrubbery, or plants sub- 

 mitted to him for examination ; enter the name of the person presenting such 

 specimens of fruit trees, shrubs, or plants for examination, and the result of 

 his examination in a register to be kept by him for that purpose, and send a 

 copy of such result to the person asking for the examination. He shall from 

 time to time, as he may deem for the best interests of the horticultural indus- 

 tries of the State, publish bulletins which shall be sent free to the various 

 county horticultural societies of the State ; such bulletins to contain a brief 

 resume of the discoveries of science of interest to horticulture, or any other 

 matter which the commissioner shall deem of importance to such interest. And 

 unless there be urgent or special need therefor no bulletin shall contain any 

 matter that has appeared in any previous bulletin. 



Sec. 11. County fruit inspectors who shall be appointed under and by au- 

 thority of this act are hereby authorized, directed, and empowered to enforce 

 the provisions of this act to prevent the introduction and spread of fruit tree 

 and plant diseases, insect pests, fungi spores, eggs or larvae of insects injurious 

 to the fruit industries of his county or of this State. 



Sec 12 (as amended by act of 1905). Whenever from any cause there shall be 

 an absence of an inspector in any county the county commissioners of such 

 county shall be notified by the commissioner of horticulture to appoint a county 



