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Sec. 5. All fruit trees infested by any insect or insects. their germ-, larva-, or 

 pupse, or infected by disease known to be injurious to fruit or fruit trees. an<l liable 

 to spread contagion, must be cleaned or disinfected before the first day of April, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty-five, and on or before the first day of April of • 

 succeeding year thereafter. All owners or occupants of lands on which fruit trees are 

 grown failing to comply with the provisions of this section -ball be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor, and lined as provided for in section six of this act. All fruit paci 

 trees, plant-, cuttings, grafts, and scion-, that shall not be disinfected within 

 twenty-four hour- after notice by the inspector of fruit pests or a duly appointed 

 quarantine guardian or any member of the board of horticulture, sball be liable to 

 be proceeded against as a public nuisance. 



Sec. 6. Any person or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall 

 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punishable 

 by a tine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for 

 every offense. 



Approved March 10, 1885 



Au ordinance for the destruction of insects injnrions x>> lruir and trail 

 Recommended for adoption.] 

 The board of supervisors of tht county of do ordain as follows: 



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



County, signed by rive or more persons, who are resident freeholders and possessors 

 of an orchard, stating that certain or all orchards or trees of any variety are infected 

 with scale bug. codlinmoth, or other insects that are destructive of trees, and asking 

 the appointment of a commission to supervise the destruction of such insects, the 

 board of supervisors shall, within twenty days after such petition i- pre-entedto the 

 board, appoint three commissioners for the said county, to be known as the county 

 board of horticultural commissioner-. 



Sec. 2. The commissioners -hall hold their office for the term of three years, and 

 until their successors are qualified; except that of the commissioners first appointed 

 one .shall hold for one year, one for two years, and the third for three years. The 

 commissioners first appointed shall decide by lot which of them shall hold for one 

 year, which tor two years, and which for three years. After the tirst commissioners 

 are appointed the board of supervisors shall appoint one commissioner every year, 

 such appointment to be made one month, or thereabouts, before the commencement 

 of the term of f he appointed. 



Sec. 3. Any vacancy which may from any cause occur in the commission shall be 

 tilled by appointment of the board of supervisors. The appointee to rill a vacancy 

 shall hold for the balance of the unexpired term. 



Sec. 4. Whenever the county board of horticultural commissioners .-hall be 

 informed by complaint in writing of any person residing in said county that au 

 orchard, nursery, or trees, or any place in their jurisdiction, is infested with - 

 bug, codliu moth, red spider, or other noxious insects, liable to spread contagion 

 dangerous to the trees or fruit of the complainant, or their eggs or Larva; injurious 

 to fruit or fruit trees, they shall cause inspection to be made of the said premises, 

 and if found infested they shall notify the owner or owners, or the persons or p 

 in charge or possession of the said trees or place, that the same are infected with the 

 said insects, or any of them, or their eggs or larv.e. and shall require such 

 persons to disinfect the same within such reasonable time as they may direct, to be 

 specified in the notice : Biich notice may be s< r\ ed by any commissioner or any | 

 deputed by the commissioners for that purpose, and shall be ser\ . d by delivei 

 copy thereof to Boch owner or persons having i ha rue thereof, personally : pro> itled, 



that when any person other than the owner is m possession or charge of -in h place 



the notice shall be served npon the owner, if within the county, as well as the per- 

 son so in charge or possession of bucIi premise 3, 



