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injurious to fruit, plants, trees, or vines, or with their eggs or larva-, he shall notify 

 the owner or owners or person or persons in charge or in powoaeion of said placet, ox 



orchards or nurseries, trees or plants, vines, fruit, or articles as aforesaid, that the 

 same are infested with said insects or other pests, or any of them, or their egg 

 larva', and he shall require such person or persons to eradicate or destroy them, the 

 said insects or other pests, or their eggs or larva-, within a certain time to be speci- 

 fied by him. Should such owner or owners, person or persons in charge or . 

 of orchard or nursery trees, or places or articles infested with said insects, or any of 

 them, their larvae or eggs, after having been notified as above by said county inspector 

 or county board of horticulture, or the State board of horticulture, to destroy the 

 same or make application of treatment as directed, shall fail, neglect, or refuse so to 

 do, then proceedings shall be taken against such person or persons for maintaining a 

 public nuisance, as provided by law. Whenever any such nuisance shall be found to 

 exist at any place within the jurisdiction of any county inspector or on the property 

 of any nonresident, or on any property, the owners of which can not be found by the 

 county inspector after diligent search within the county, or upon the property of 

 any owner or owners upon which notice aforesaid has been Berved, and who -hall 

 refuse or neglect the same within the time specified, it shall be the duty of the 

 county inspector, acting under the orders of the county board of horticulture, or State 

 board of horticulture, to cause such nuisance to be at once abated by eradicating or 

 destroying said insects or other pests, or their eggs or larva-, and shall make an 

 expense bill thereof and present same to board of county commissioners for payment. 

 Art. 7. Disinfection, as provided by these regulations, shall be to the satisfaction 

 of the county board of horticulture having jurisdiction. 



Art. 8. Any person or persons or corporation violating any of these regulations 

 shall be proceeded against according to law. 



Passed at a meeting of the board of horticulture held at the secretary's office, in 

 Denver, Colorado, this the 8th day of April, 1893. 



W. B. Osborx, President, Lovehind. 



John Tobias, Secretary, Denver. 



C. W. Steele, Grand Junction. 



David Brothers, Wheat Ridge. 



W. S. COBURN, Paonia. 

 Members Colorado State Board of Horticulture. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



Chapter XX. 

 An act to consolidate and amend the acts respecting the Provincial Board of Horticulture. 



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

 Province of British Columbia, enact* as follows: 

 Section. 1. This act may be cited as the ••Horticultural board act. 1894." 

 Sec. 2. There is hereby created a provincial board of horticulture. t<> > en- 

 two ex-officio members, viz, the minister of agriculture and the statistician (who 

 shall act as secretary of the board) and five members, who shall be appointed by the 

 lieutenant-governor in council, one from each of the horticultural districts which 

 are hereby created, to wit: 



[Enumeration of districts.] 



Sec. 3. The members shall reside in the districts for which they are appointed; 

 they shall be selected with reference to their study of and practical experience in 

 horticulture and the industries dependent thereon; they shall hold office for I term 

 of fouryears, and until their successors are appointed and qualified; but any retir- 

 ing member of the board shall be eligible for reappointment : Provided, however, that 

 three of the board first appointed (to be determined bv lot shall retire at the expira- 



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