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Sec. 2. The members appointed from each district shall be residents of the district 

 from which they are appointed, and shall be specially qualified by practical expe- 

 rience and study in connection with the industries dependent upon horticulture. 

 They shall each hold office Pot the term of four years, except thai of the nine first 

 appointed four, to be determined by lot, shall retire at the end of two years, when 

 their successors shall be appointed by the goTernor. 



Sec 3. The board shall appoint and prescribe the duties of a secretary who shall 

 not be one of their number, and elect of their own number a treasurer, both to hold 

 office during the pleasure of the said board. The treasurer shall give a bond to the 

 State, with sureties approved by the said board in the sum of ten thousand dollars 

 for the faithful discharge of his duties. 



SEC. 4. The board may receive, manage, use. and hold donations ami bequests for 

 promoting the objects of its formation. It shall meet semiannually, and as much 

 oftener and at such places as it may deem expedient to consult and adopt such 

 measures as may best promote the horticultural industries of the State. It may. bur 

 without expense to the State, select and appoint competent and qualified person- to 

 lecture in each of the horticultural districts named in section 1 of this act. for the 

 purpose of illustrating practical horticultural topics, and imparting instruction in 

 the methods of culture, pruning, fertilizing, and also in the best methods of treating 

 the diseases of fruit and fruit trees, cleansing orchards, and exterminating insect 

 pests. The ottice of the board shall be kept open to the public, subject to ihe rules 

 of the board, every day. excepting legal holidays, and shall he in charge of tin 

 retary during the absence of the board. 



Se< '. 5. For the purpose of preventing the spread of contagious disease among 

 fruit and fruit trees, and for the prevention, treatment, cure, and extirpation of 

 fruit pests and the diseases of fruit and fruit trees, and for the disinfection of grafts, 

 scions, orchard debris, empty fruit boxes and packages, and other suspected 

 material or transportable articles, dangerous to orchards, fruit, and fruit trees, 

 said board shall make regulations for the inspection and disinfection thereof, 

 which said regulations shall be circulated in printed form by the board among the 

 fruit growers and fruit dealers of the State, shall be published at least twenty days 

 in two daily newspapers of general circulation in the State not of the same city or 

 county, and shall be posted in three conspicuous places in each county in the State, 

 one of which shall be at the county court-house thereof. Such regulations when 80 

 posted shall be held to impart notice of their contents to all persons within this 

 State, and shall be binding upon all persons. 



Sic. 6. The said board shall elect of their own number, or appoint from without 

 their number, a competent person, especially qualified by practical experience in 

 horticulture, for the duties of his ottice, who shall bo known as inspector of fruit 

 pests (to hold office at the pleasure of the board), whose duty it shall be to visit the 

 horticultural districts of the State, to see that all regulations of said board and pro- 

 visions of law to prevent the spread of fruit pests and diseases of trees and 

 plants injurious to the horticultural interests of the State, and all regulations of 

 said board in the nature of quarantining infected or infested districts, and also all 

 rnles and regulations of said board concerning disinfection of fruits, tiers, plants, 

 grafts, scions, orchard debris, empty fruit boxes and packages, and other material 

 dangerous to orchards, fruit, and fruit trees are enforced. He shall, also, whenever 

 required, and under the direction of the board, and may also, upon his own motion 

 and upon the complaint of interested parties, inspect orchards, nurseries, and other 

 places suspected, or believed to be infested with fruit pests, or infected with con- 

 tagious disease injurious to trees, plants, or fruits, and he shall report the facts to 

 said board, if. upon report of said inspector, or from well attested facts otherwise 

 before it. said board shall be of the opinion that any locality, orchard, district, 01 

 place is infested with fruit pests, or infected with contagions disease injurious to 

 trees, plants, or fruits, and liable to spread to other localities to the injury oi other 

 persons or places, said hoard shall, by an order entered upon its minutes, so declare. 



