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Sec. 2. No person shall act as agent or traveling salesmen in this State for 

 anj^ firm, person, or corporation engaged in growing, selling, or handling fruit 

 trees, vines, or shrubbery until such firm, person, or corporation shall have com- 

 plied with all the provisions of the foregoing section and taken out the license 

 in some county of this State therein provided for. Any person violating this 

 section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than twenty-five dol- 

 lars nor more than one hundred dollars upon conviction, and may be confined in 

 jail not to exceed six months, in the discretion of the judge or justice before 

 whom the case is tried. The license hereinbefore provided for shall authorize 

 such person to transact business in any county of the State upon the filing of 

 the lists of agents or traveling salesmen employed therein, together w^ith a cer- 

 tified copy of the license with the clerk of the county court. Every person act- 

 ing as agent or traveling salesman for any person, firm, or corporation engaged 

 in growing or selling fruit trees, vines, or shrubbery shall take from his em- 

 ployer a certificate showing that he is the authorized agent or salesman of such 

 person, firm, or corporation, and shall exhibit the same to any person who de- 

 mands to see said certificate, and any person who fails to do so, before acting 

 as salesman or agent for any person, firm, or corportion engaged in growing or 

 selling any fruit trees, vines, or shrubbery, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and be fined ten dollars upon conviction. 



Sec. 3. Any person, firm, or corporation that shall label any trees or vines any 

 false or fictitious name or variety, or who shall substitute, without the permis- 

 sion of the purchaser, trees from any nursery other than the one wherein it was 

 represented the stock sold was grown, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and upon conviction fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two 

 Imndred dollars, and shall, in addition thereto, forfeit the license held and shall 

 thereafter be precluded from doing business in this State. 



Sec. 4. If any person acting as agent or traveling salesman for any person, 

 firm, or corporation sell any trees, vines, or shrubbery upon a certificate of 

 agency, and afterward, without the consent of the purchaser, procure them of 

 and supply them from the nursery of some person or place other than that such 

 agent or salesman professed to represent, he shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor and fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred 

 dollars. 



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Chapter 180. 



An Act to prevent the introduction or spread of San Jose scale and other injurious 

 insect and fungus diseases, and making an appropriation therefor. 



The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do 

 enact as follotvs: 



Section 1. The director of the agricultural experiment station of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin is hereby authorized to inspect, through his agent, any 

 nursery or any fruit or garden plantation or any unplanted or heeled-in nurs- 

 ery stock in this State that he has reason to suspect is infested by San Jose 

 scale or other injurious insects and fungus diseases, and for this purpose his 

 agent shall have free access to and egress from any field, garden, packing 

 ground, building, cellar, or other place where the duties of carrying out the 

 provisions of this act shall call him, and any person attempting to hinder such 

 inspection by misrepresentation or otherwise shall be liable to the payment of 

 a penalty or forfeiture as hereinafter provided. 



