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state, who shall thereupon draw his warrant upon the treasurer of state for the 
amount, which shall be paid out of the-funds provided for carrying this act 
into effect. 
Src. 6. Appropriation. There is hereby appropriated out of any money not 
otherwise appropriated the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or so much 
thereof as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of this act. 
Approved, April 12, 1898. 
KANSAS. 
There is at present no law in Kansas relating to the control of injurious 
insects. 
KENTUCKY. 
LAWS oF 1897. 
An Act to provide for the inspection of nursery stock and to prevent the dissemination 
of noxious insects and fungi. 
§ 1. That all nurseries in Kentucky where trees, vines, plants, or other nur- 
sery stock are grown and offered for sale shall be inspected by the entomologist 
and botanist of the State agricultural station once each year.at such time as he 
may elect, and he shall notify, in writing, the owners of such nurseries, the com- 
missioner of agriculture and statistics, the director of the State agricultural 
experiment station, and the president of the State horticultural society of the 
presence of any San Jose scale or other destructively injurious insects or fungi 
on the trees, vines, plants, or other stock of such nurseries, and shall also notify, 
in writing, the owner of any affected stock that he is required, on or before a 
certain day, to take such measures for the destruction of such insects or fungus 
enemies of nursery stock as have been shown to be effectual for this purpose. 
Said entomologist and botanist shall, for the purposes of this act, be, and he 
is hereby declared to be, the State entomologist, and shall serve without pay 
other than that he may receive as an officer of the State agricultural experi- 
ment station, but his expenses shall be paid as hereinafter provided. 
§ 2. The owner of this affected nursery stock shall, within the time specified, 
take such steps for the destruction of San Jose scale or other destructively 
injurious insect or fungus enemies present as will exterminate the same, and it 
shall be a misdemeanor to ship or deliver any of such stock, punishable by a 
fine of fifty dollars for every such offense, the fine recoverable before a justice of 
the peace, or by indictment by a grand jury of the county in which the nursery 
is situated, or of that to which such stock may have been shipped. 
§ 3. Whenever a nurseryman or seller of trees, vines, plants, or other nursery 
stock, who is a resident of this Commonwealth, shall ship or deliver any such 
goods, he shall send on each package so shipped or delivered a written certificate, 
‘signed by him, stating that the whole and every part of such stock has been 
examined by a State or Government entomologist and found free from San Jose 
seale or other destructively injurious insect or fungus enemies. Failure to 
furnish such certificate, or furnishing a false certificate, shall render him liable 
to the penalty of a fine of fifty dollars for each and every such shipment or 
delivery without such certificate. 
§4. When the State entomologist examines any trees, vines, plants, or other 
nursery stuck in this State under the provisions of this act, and finds such 
