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tion of two years. All vacancies in the board shall he filled hy appointment of 

 the lieutenant-governor in council, and shall he for the unexpired term. 



Sec. 4. The lieutenant-governor in council may appoint a treasurer of the board, 

 who shall give a bond to the lieutenant-governor in council, with two or more 

 sufficient sureties, in the sum one thousand dollars for the faithful performance ofhis 

 duties. The treasurer shall hold his appointment at the pleasure of the lieutenant- 

 governor in council. Before entering upon the discharge of his duties, each mem- 

 ber of the board shall take and subscribe to an oath of allegiance, and to faithfully 

 discharge the duties of his office, which said oath shall be filed with- the provincial 

 secretary. 



Sec. 5. The board shall receive, manage, use, and hold donations and bequests of 

 money and property for promoting the objects of its formation; it shall meet in the 

 months of April and October of each year, and as much oftener as it may deem 

 expedient, for the consultation on and for the adoption of those measures that will 

 best promote the horticultural industry of the province : it may, but without expense 

 to the province, select and appoint competent and qualified persons to lecture in 

 each of the districts named in section two of this act, for the purpose of encouraging 

 and improving practical horticulture, and imparting instruction in the best methods 

 of treating diseases of fruits and fruit trees, cleaning orchards, and exterminating 

 orchard pests. 



Sec. 6. The office of the board shall be located at the Department of Agriculture ; 

 it shall be kept open to the public, subject to the rules of the board, every day 

 except Sundays and public holidays, and shall be in the charge of the secretary 

 during the absence of the board. 



Sec. 7. For the purpose of preventing the spread of contagious diseases in 

 orchards and gardens and among fruit and fruit trees, and for the prevention, treat- 

 ment, cure, and extirpation of fruit pests and the disease of fruits and fruit trees, 

 and for the disinfection of grafts, scions, or orchard debris, empty fruit boxes, or 

 packages and other suspected material or transportable articles dangerous to 

 orchards, fruits, and fruit trees, said board may make regulations for the inspection 

 and disinfection, or destruction thereof, or of nonfruit-bearing trees or shrubs 

 which may carry contagion, and also for requiring all cases of contagious diseases, 

 or fruit pests, as aforesaid, to be reported to the board, which regulations shall 

 be circulated in printed form by the board, among the fruit growers and fruit deal- 

 ers of the province, and shall be published in the British Columbia Gazette, and, 

 at the discretion of the board, in papers of general circulation in the province, 

 and shall be posted in three conspicuous places in each district, one of which 

 shall be a court-house therein ; and every such regulation, when published in the 

 British Columbia Gazette, shall, so far as the same shall not have been in like man- 

 ner repealed or varied, be deemed to be and have the force of law, and be so recog- 

 nized in all courts in the province. 



(a) In and by such regulations the board may fix and impose any fine or penalties 

 for the enforcement of the provisions thereof not exceeding in amount the fines and 

 penalties hereinafter provided in case of the evasion of any of the provisions of this act. 



(b) All fines and penalties imposed by any such regulations shall be recovered with 

 costs upon summary conviction before any justice of the peace, in accordance with 

 the provisions of the " Summary convictions act, 1889," and when collected shall be 

 paid over to the treasurer of the board for the purposes of this act. 



Sec. 8. The lieutenant-governor in council shall appoint, from the number of the 

 board or from without their number, to hold office at the pleasure of the lieutenant- 

 governor in council, a competent person, especially qualified by practical experience 

 in horticulture, who shall be known as tl Inspector of fruit pests." It shall be the 

 duty of said inspector to visit the horticultural districts of the province to see that 

 all the regulations of said board be made known to the people of the province, and 

 to enforce this act and the said regulations in the manner therein or in the act pre- 



