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6. Shipments of live stock from points in the States of Texas and Louisiana 
into the State of Georgia are hereby absolutely prohibited when any of the 
articles quarantined against are used as bedding or feed for such live stock, un- 
less accompanied by the certificate cf a State or governmental entomologist to 
the effect that the bedding or feed originated in a locality where, by actual 
inspection, the Mexican cotton boll weevil was not found to exist. 
HAWATI. 
Act 44. (SESSION LAws oF 1903.) 
An Act to provide for the encouragement and protection of agriculture, horticulture, and 
forestry. : 
Be it enacted by the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii: 
SECTION 1. Whenever in this act the word “ board” is used, it shall refer and 
mean the board of commissioners of agriculture and forestry by this act pro- 
vided for. 
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Src. 5. It shall be the duty of the board: 
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(3) Rules and regulations. To make rules and regulations, and to amend 
the same from time to time in their discretion, subject to the approval of 
the governor, for and concerning the introduction, transportation, and prop- 
agation of trees, shrubs, and plants and the preservation, protection, extension, 
and utilization of forests and forest reserves, both natural and artificial; for 
the quarantine, inspection, fumigation, disinfection, exclusion, or destruction, 
either upon introduction into this Territory or at any time or place within the 
Territory, of any soil, nursery stock, tree, sugar cane, shrub, plant, flower, vine, 
cutting, graft, cion, bud, seed, root, fruit pit, fruit, vegetable, leaf, nut, or other 
vegetable growth or other substances, and any box, barrel, package, or packing 
material, or containers in which said articles, or any of them, have been trans- 
ported or contained which is or may be infected with or liable to assist in the 
transmission or dissemination of any insect, blight, scale, or disease injurious or 
liable to become injurious to trees, plants, or other vegetation of value. 
Included therein may be rules and regulations governing the shipping be- 
tween the different islands of this Territory of any or all of the nursery stock, 
trees, and other articles in this subsection hereinabove enumerated. 
And also with power to prohibit the importation into the Territory from any 
or all foreign countries, or other parts of the United States, or the shipment 
from one island within the Territory to another island therein, of any specific 
article or class of articles above enumerated which are liable to introduce 
or disseminate, or assist in the introduction or dissemination, of any insect, 
blight, scale, or disease injurious or liable to become injurious to trees, plants, 
or other vegetation of value. All rules and regulations made as aforesaid shall 
have the force and effect of law. 
(9) Superintendent of entomological department. To appoint a _ superin- 
tendent of entomology, who shall have charge, direction, and control (subject 
to the direction and control of the board) of all matters relating to the exclu- 
sion or eradication of insects, scales, blights, and diseases injurious or liable to 
become injurious to trees, plants, or other vegetation of value; and relating to 
the quarantine, inspection, disinfection, exclusion, or destruction of- any plant, 
article, or substance injurious or liable to become injurious to trees, plants, or 
