34 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
QUARANTINE LAW AGAINST THE MEXICAN COTTON BOLL WEEVIL. 
[Sections of an act of the general assembly of the State of Georgia, approved August 
15, 1904, and section 17 as amended August 23, 1905.] 
SeEcTION 15. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly bring into the 
State of Georgia any living Mexican boll weevil, or any cotton bolls, squares, 
plants, or seeds containing the adult, pupal, larval, or egg stage of said Mexican 
boll weevil unless the person shall immediately upon its discovery at once destroy 
the same or turn over the same to the State entomologist. Violation of this sec- 
tion shall be punished as provided by section 1039 of the Penal Code of Georgia 
of 1895. 
Sec. 16. No cotton seed, seed cotton, cotton-seed hulls or cotton lint, in bales or 
loose, shall be brought into this State from any points in the States of Texas and 
Louisiana, or from any other point in any other State or country wherein the 
Mexican boll weevil is known to exist, without having attached thereto in a 
prominent and conspicuous manner, a certificate signed by a duly authorized 
State or governmental entomologist stating that said cotton seed. seed cotton, 
cotton-seed hulls. or cotton lint, was grown in, and that the shipment of same 
originated in, a locality where by actual inspection by said official, or his agent, 
the Mexican boll weevil was not found to exist. Any steamship, railroad, or 
express company or other common carrier, or any firm, person, or corporation 
bringing into this State any of the articles above mentioned without the specified 
certificate attached shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. In case any com- 
non carrier enumerated viclates this section, then the general manager of such 
common carrier or the captain of such offending vessel shall be deemed guilty 
and upon conviction shall be punished as provided by section 1039 of the Penal 
Code of Georgia cf 1895. 
Sec. 17. No corn in the shuck, or Shipment of household goods, furniture, ma- 
chinery, glassware, cr supplies cf any Gescription which are packed or partially 
packed in or with cotton lint, cotton seed, seed cotton, hulls, seed cotton 
and cotton seed sacks, or corn in the shuck, shall be shipped into this State from 
points in Texas and Louisiana, or any other State cr country in which the Mexi- 
can cotton boll weevil is known to exist, without having attached thereto in a 
prominent and conspicuous manner the certificate provided for in section 16. 
Sec. 18. Transportation companies shall immediately notify the State ento- 
maologist (Atlanta, Ga..) when by oversight, negligence, or otherwise any ship- 
ments of the nature designated in sections 16 and 17, without a proper certificate 
attached, shall arrive at any station or wharf in this State, and it shall be his 
duty to proceed as speedily as possible, by himself or assistant, to investigate 
such shipment. If upon investigation he find the shipment to be of the nature 
herein designated he shall order same removed from this State. Upon failure 
of the owner or shipper to remove same within forty-eight hours after notice 
has been sent him by wire, said shipment shall be seized and burned. 
Sec. 19. The State entomologist and his assistants shali have authority to 
enter, during reasonable business hours, any depot, warehouse, freight, wharf, 
transfer, steamship, or express office in this State and shall be allowed fuil 
aecess to all waybills, invoices, and bills of lading therein, when he or they may 
deem it necessary to determine the presence or record of any shipments of the 
nature designated in sections 16 and 17 ef this act. The State entomologist 
and his assistants shall have authority to enter at any time, for the purpose of 
inspecting shipments therein, or for determining the nature of shipments 
therein, any express car er steamship when same is in transit or lying at dock 
or depot in charge of any employee or official of the company owning or oper- 
