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Proposed amendments — Honorable Minister of Agriculture. 



BILL. 



No. .] [1894-95. 



An ad to amend the " BortioulturaJ board act, 1894. 



Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the legislative assembly of the Pro- 

 vince of British Columbia, enacts as follows: 



Section 1. This act maybe cited as the "Horticultural board amendment act, 

 1894." 



Sec. 2. The electoral districts mentioned in section 2 of the " Horticultural board 

 act, 1894," are those existing before the passing of the " Legislative electorates and 

 elections act, 1894.'' 



Sec. 3. Section 7 of the said act is hereby amended by inserting therein immedi- 

 ately before subsection (a) the following as clause (2) : 



"(2) The power to make regulations for inspection shall include the power to 

 establish and vary places and quarantine stations where such inspection shall be 

 carried out and to make regulations in regard to the forwarding thereto and deten- 

 tion thereat of articles requiring inspection." 



Sec. 4. Said section 7 is also further amended by adding to subsection (a) thereof 

 the following : " And may fix a scale of fees to be taken, for inspection or other serv- 

 ices under the regulations by officers carrying out the same, from the owners or 

 persons in possession of any premises or property ;" and by inserting in the first 

 line of subsection (6), after the word "imposed," the words "of fees authorized." 



All constables or other peace officers shall, when called upon by any member of the 

 board or any authorized agent thereof, aid and assist such member or agent in car- 

 rying out the provisions of this act. 



MISSOURI. 



Emergency Laws Against the Rocky Mountain Locust or Western Grass- 

 hopper. 



An act to encourage the destruction of grasshoppers. 



Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows : 



Section 1. Any person who shall gather, or cause to be gathered by any person in 

 his employ, eggs of the Rocky Mountain locust or grasshopper, at anytime after 

 they are deposited in the earth in the autumn of any year and before they are 

 hatched the following spring, shall be entitled to a bounty of five dollars for each 

 and every bushel of eggs thus gathered; or for any quantity less than one bushel, 

 bounty at the same rate, to be paid one-half by the State and one-half by the county 

 in which they are gathered. 



Sec 2. Any person who shall gather, collect, and kill, or cause to be so eolleeted 

 and killed, young and unfledged grasshoppers in the month of March shall be 

 entitled to a bounty of one dollar for each bushel, and for the month of April lift\ 

 cents per bushel, and for the month of May twenty-five cents per bushel, to be paid 

 in the same manner as in the preceding section. 



Sec. 3. Any person claiming bounty under this act shall produce the eggs and 

 grasshoppers thus gathered or killed, as the ease may be, before the olerkofthe 

 county court in which such eggs or grasshoppers were gathered ox killed within 

 ten days thereafter, whereupon said clerk shall administer to such person the follow- 

 ing oath or affirmation: You do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that 

 the eggs (or grasshoppers, as the case may be) produced by you were taken and 

 gathered by you, or by person or persons in your employ, or under j our control, and 

 within this county and State. 



Sec. l. The clerk shall forthwith destroy such eggs by burning the same, ami give 

 to the person proving up the same, under Ins hand ami seal, a certificate setting 



