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raaterial or fruits, fruit boxes, baskets, wrappings, portable fruit stands by 

 burning tbe same. If an appeal be taken, the inspector shall, after twenty-four 

 hours' notice take immediate possession of such movable property and safely 

 keep them until the appeal be decided. If the decision of the commissioners 

 be in favor of the appellant, the property shall be returned to him ; on an 

 adverse decision the property must be destroyed by the inspector. All appeals 

 from the action or demand of the county inspector shall be taken to the State 

 commissioner of horticulture. That no county fruit inspector shall act as solic- 

 itor or agent for the sale or distribution of any nursery stock, supplies, or 

 machinery for use in orchards, nor engage in the purchase or marking of fruit 

 from any orchard save his own. When satisfactory evidence that any countj^ 

 fruit inspector has violated the provisions of this section, the horticultural 

 commissioner shall remove such inspector and report the removal to the county 

 commissioners of his (the inspector's) county. 



Sec. 16. The said commissioner of horticulture shall be allowed seven hundred 

 dollars ($700) per annum for the employment of one office clerk, who shall be 

 continually in the office of the commissioner during normal office hours, and 

 whose salary shall be paid monthly. 



Sec. 17. There shall be kept and maintained in the oflSce of the commissioner 

 in the city of Tacoma an exhibit of the fruits of the State of Washington, and 

 for the maintenance of such exhibit an annual appropriation of three hundred 

 dollars ($300) per annum is hereby made, to be paid out upon warrants drawn 

 by the State auditor upon the presentation of proper vouchers. 



Sec. 18. An annual " inspector's institute " shall be held during the month 

 of January at the agricultural college at Pullman. The commissioner of 

 horticulture shall fix the date of convening of such institute and by written 

 notices direct the attendance of all county inspectors. The commissioner shall 

 preside over and formulate the proceedings of the institute, which shall con- 

 tinue for four days. As the purpose of these institutes is improvement and 

 conference and study of insects, of experimentation by the scientist of the col- 

 lege along entomologist and horticultural lines, it is required that all county in- 

 spectors shall attend such institute meetings unless prevented by illness. Fail- 

 ure to attend on the part of any inspector shall work a forfeiture of his office, 

 and it shall be the duty of the commissioner to inform county commissioners of 

 the absence of their inspectors. Inspectors attending institutes shall be allowed 

 their actual traveling expenses and hotel bills on vouchers endorsed by the 

 commissioner or chairman of institute, said expenses to be paid by the respective 

 counties. 



Sec. 19. Any person offering any hindrance to the carrying out of this act 

 or in any manner preventing or hindering any inspection herein provided for 

 shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than 

 two hundred dollars, together with the costs. 



Sec. 20. [Refers to appropriation.] 



Sec. 21. A certain act approved March 17, 1897, and entitled "An act to pro- 

 mote and protect the fruit-growing and horticultural interests of the State of 

 Washington, to provide for the appointment of commissioner of horticulture 

 and to repeal certain laws in conflict therewith," and all other laws or parts of 

 laws inconsistent with or in conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby 

 repealed. 



Sec. 22. An emergency exists, and this act shall take effect and be in force 

 from and after its approval by the governor. 



