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enacted by the authority of the same: That a commission to consist of five 
members, to be appointed by the Governor for a period of three years from the 
date of the approval of this act, and to be called ‘“ The Commission for the In- 
vestigation and Control of the Chestnut-Tree Blight Disease in Pennsylvania,” 
is hereby created, with power to ascertain, determine upon, and adopt the 
most efficient and practical means for the prevention, control, and eradication 
of a disease of the chestnut tree commonly known as the chestnut-tree blight 
disease; and for this purpose, in collaboration with the department of forestry, 
or otherwise, to conduct scientific investigations into the nature and causes of 
such- disease and the means of preventing its introducton, continuance, and 
spread; to establish, regulate, maintain, and enforce quarantine against the 
introduction and spread of such disease; and, from time to time, to adopt and 
prescribe such regulations and methods of procedure as to it may seem neces- 
sary and proper for carrying into effect the purpose of this act, and exercising 
the powers and authority hereby conferred: Provided, That in the work of 
collaboration by the commission with the Department of Forestry said depart- 
ment may employ such means, and make detail of such men, and do such other 
things, as may seem to be necessary or expedient to accomplish the purpose of 
this act. 
Sec. 2. Any member of the commission, or any of its duly authorized agents 
or employees, shall have the right, at any time, to enter upon any premises, wild 
lands, farms, fields, private grounds, and inclosures for the purpose of examin- 
ing into the condition of any chestnut tree or trees thereon, and determining 
whether or not such trees, or any of them, have been attacked or infected by 
the chestnut-tree blight; and whenever this disease is found to exist, such 
commissioners, their duly authorized agents and employees, shall, in all prac- 
ticable ways, cooperate with the owners of such trees in and for the removal, 
cure, control, and eradication of such disease, and the prevention of its spread 
to other chestnut trees upon adjoining and other properties; sball specifically 
advise and direct such owner how he shall proceed for the accomplishment of 
these ends; and shall Jeave with such owner, his agent, tenant, or other repre- 
sentative having charge of such trees, a notice, in writing, containing a descrip- 
tion or plan specifically designating the trees so found to be diseased, and 
full and specific instructions for the treatment of such trees, or for the removal 
and destruction of designated parts thereof or of an entire tree or trees, as 
the case may require. 
Szc. 3. If any owner of such trees, so found to be diseased by the said com- 
mission, its duly authorized agents or employees. shall neglect or refuse to 
cooperate in applying the necessary remedies for the removal, cure, control, 
and eradication of such disease, and the prevention of its spread to other 
chestnut trees upon adjoining and other properties; or shall neglect or refuse 
to comply with the requirements of the notice aforesaid, prescribing the treat- 
ment which shall be applied to such trees, so found to be diseased, within 
twenty days from the time such notice shall have been served, the said com- 
mission may at once proceed, through its duly authorized agents and employees, 
to do whatever may be found by it to be necessary and proper to accomplish 
the cure, control, or eradication of such disease and the prevention of its 
spread to other chestnut trees ; and for this purpose, whenever it may be found 
necessary May remove, cut down, and destroy, or cause to be removed, cut down, 
or destroyed, any trees or parts of trees so found to be infected with such 
disease; and shall immediately thereafter duly certify to the owner of such 
trees, so treated or destroyed, or to bis tenant, agent, or other representative 
in charge of such trees, the amount of the cost or expenses actually incurred 
by the commission in the treatment, removal, or destruction of such trees; and 
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