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Sec 5. If within the time specified in said notice such disinfection has not been 

 accomplished, then such person or persons shall be required by notice, to be served 

 as hereinbefore provided, to make application of such treatment, applied in such 

 manner and within such time as the commissioners may prescribe, but subject to 

 the general laws of the State of California. 



Sec. 6. If the person so notified shall fail to disinfect such places or to apply such 

 treatment in the manner and within the time prescribed in the notice, such orchards 

 or nurseries, or places, shall be deemed a public nuisance, and may be proceeded 

 against in any court of competent jurisdiction, and abated as such nuisance, either 

 by the disinfection of such place under the direction of said commission or other 

 public authority, or by the destruction thereof, when necessary to prevent the 

 spread of such disease or pest. 



Sec. 7. The cost and expense of such proceedings for the compulsory disinfection 

 of such premises, including the expenses of disinfection when ordered, shall be alien 

 upon said premises. 



Sec. 8. Said board of commissioners shall have the power to divide the county 

 into districts and appoint a local inspector for each district, who shall perform such 

 duties as may be required of him by the board of commissioners. 



Sec. 9. Said county board of horticultural commissioners shall perform such other 

 duties as may be prescribed by law, and for a failure to perform such duties or any 

 of their duties, they may be removed by the board of supervisors upon complaint in 

 writing. 



Sec. 10. Each commissioner shall receive dollars per day. and each local 



inspector dollars per day for his services for each day in which such commis- 

 sioner or inspector is actually engaged in the performance of his duties; provided 

 that the total amount of expenditure for services of commissioners and inspectors 



shall not exceed in any one year the sum of dollars, without a special order 



of this board to that effect. 



Sec. 11. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 



day of , A. D. eighteen hundred and eighty : and prior to said day shall 



be published, with the names of the members voting for and against the same, for 

 at least one week in the , a newspaper published in said county. 



Dated , 188-. , 



Chairman of the board. 



Attest : 



( 'Jerk. 



An act to protect and promote the horticultural interests of the State. (Approved March 14, 1881; 

 amended by an act approved March 19, 1889.) 



The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as 

 follows: 



Section 1. Section one of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 

 "Section 1. Whenever a petition is presented to the board of supervisors of any 

 county, and signed by twenty -five or more persons who are resident freeholders and 

 possessors of an orchard, or both, stating that certain or all orchards or nurseries, or 

 trees of any variety, are infested with scale insects of any kind, injurious to fruit, 

 fruit trees, and vines, codlin moth, or other insects that are destructive to trees, 

 and praying that a commission be appointed by them, whose duty it shall be to 

 supervise their destruction as herein provided, the board of supervisors shall, 

 within twenty days thereafter, select three commissioners for the county, to be known 

 as a county board of horticultural commissioners. The board of supervisors may fill 

 any vacancy that may occur in said commission by death, resignation, or otherwise, 

 and appoint one commissioner each year, one month, or thereabouts, previous to the 

 expiration of the term of office of any member of said commission. The said com- 

 missioners shall serve for a period of three years from the date of their appointment, 





