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In consideration of the fact that article 243 of the Organic Act 

 of the Executive Power in defining the faculties that correspond to 

 the Secretary of Agriculture, Comerce and Labor, says: "he has in 

 charge anything relating to the study and extirpation of the diseases 

 that affect animals and plants". 



In use of the faculties that pertain to me, and at the proposal of 

 the Secretary of Agriculture, Comerce and Labor, 



RESOLVED: 



First. — To create in the Department of Agriculture, Comerce 

 and Labor, a commission that will be called Commission of Plant 

 Sanitation, pertaining to the Office of Agriculture, composed of three 

 members that will be J. R. Johnston, Pathologist of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, as President; Patricio Cardin, chief of the De- 

 partment of Entomology of said Experiment Station; and Mario San- 

 chez, Professor of the Agricultural School of Havana, in order that 

 the following may be carried out : 



A. — Study the diseases and insects that are present or that may 

 be present in the plants in whatever part of the National territory. 



B. — According to the studies made, to take, with the approval of 

 the Secretary of Agriculture, without other requirement, the profilac- 

 tic measures that may be considered necessary in order to combat the 

 diseases, using the resources that will be mentioned further on. 



C. — For the organization and direction of the work relative to 

 the measure refered to in the paragraph preceding, letter B, the Com- 

 mission may send any of its members to any place it is considered 

 necessary, for which purpose the President of the said Commission 

 v/ill issue the necessary transportation requests, a book of which will 

 be facilitated by the Secretary of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, 

 and during the time that they remain away from the Office on official 

 business, they will receive a per diem of five dollars, which will 

 be paid by the Secretary from the funds placed at his disposal in a 

 succeeding paragraph. 



D. — The President of this Commission or other member m his 

 absence may order the removal of the machinery and other materials, 

 to whatever place is necessary in order to combat the diseases that 

 may appear in any plantation. 



E. — In the same way, the Commission, the member who un- 

 dertakes the work of disinfection of any crop, or any of the inspectors 

 which have been appointed by the Commission for this purpose with 

 the proper instructions, may proceed to employ laobrers to clean or 

 destroy infected plants, and also contract whatever other service is 

 considered necessary, (first consulting and obtaining the approbation 

 of the Secretary, which should be done in the most rapid manner,) 

 whose wages or expenses will be paid from the funds designated for 

 this purpose, to which end the Pasrmaster of the Department pf 

 Agriculture is especially authorized to facilitate the amount agreed 

 upon the expenditure of which will be accounted for by whoever 

 receives it in, at most, sixty days, counting from the day of its 



F.' When the case of infection is of such gravity that only by 



the destruction of the crop can the plague be exterminated, the Com- 

 mission will submit the case to the Secretary of Agriculture, Com- 

 merce and Labor, who will take such measures as he considers ne- 



