98 CHESTNUT TREE BLIGHT. 
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 practicable 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 propertids; 
shall specifically advise and direct such owner how he shall proceed for the accom- 
plishment of these ends; and shall leave with such owner, his agent, tenant, or other 
representative 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, 
Sec. 3. If any owner of such trees, so found to be diseased by the said commission, 
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 treatment which shall be applied to such trees, so found to 
be aaseaee, within 20 days from the time such notice shall have been served, the said 
commission may at once proceed, through its duly authorized agents and sie pe be 
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 his 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 if the amount of such expense, so certified, shall not be paid by such owner 
of said trees, so treated, removed, or destroyed, within 60 days after it shall have been 
so certified, the same may be recovered by the said commission, from such owner, 
by an action in the name of the Commonwealth, in the same manner as debts of like 
amount are now recoverable, and when recovered may be used by said commission 
in carrying out the purposes of this act. 
Provided, however, That any owner or owners of trees, his or their tenants, agents, 
or representatives, who may be dissatisfied with any decision, order, or notice of any 
member of the commission, or any of its agents or employees, directing or prescribing 
the treatment, removal, or destruction of trees belonging to or conuelied by them, 
shall have the right within 10 days from the time of the service upon them of such 
order or notice to appeal therefrom, in writing, to the commission, which shall there- 
upon, without avoidable delay, direct a reexamination of the premises or trees in 
question, by competent experts, who shall make report of their findings to the com- 
mission; which shall then fix a time and a place for a hearing before it, upon such 
appeal, and notify the person making eppesl tharoal All further proceedings under 
such order or notice shall be suspended until the decision of the commission shall have 
been formally rendered. 
Sec. 4. Whenever, in the judgment of the commission, it may be necessary to destroy 
chestnut trees not affected by the chestnut-tree blight, for the purpose of establishing 
a quarantine to prevent and control the spread of ie disease, the owner of such trees 
shall be reimbursed for the loss of all the good and unaffected trees so destroyed; the 
amount to be paid therefor to be not greater than the stumpage prices of such trees, 
prevailing at the time in the locality where such trees grew; such value to be deter- 
mined by the commission, by such method or procedure as it may adopt, and payment 
therefor to be made from the fund hereinafter specifically appropriated for the use of 
the said commission in performing the duties required by thisact. Should any owner 
of trees be dissatisfied with the amount awarded to pay for the destruction of such good 
and unaffected trees, said owner shall have all the remedies now existing, or which 
may hereafter be provided by law, for the protection of his interests. 
Sec. 5. Any person who shall willfully violate any of the provisions of this act, or 
any of the regulations of the commission intended to assist in carrying this act into 
effect, or shall willfully resist or interfere with any agent or employee of the said com- 
mission in the performance of his duties in accordance with the regulations and orders 
of the commission, under the previous hereof, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, 
and shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine not exceeding $100, or by 
imprisonment not exceeding one month, either or both, at the discretion of the court. 
The word “person,” as used in this act, shall include not only individuals or natural 
ersons, but as well artificial persons, existing only in contemplation of law, and shall 
é construed to mean partnerships, limited partnerships, joint-stock companies, and 
corporations, and the officers, agents, and employees of the same. 
