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or liable to be introduced, and may at any subsequent meeting extend or amend 
said list. The commission shall also publish methods for exterminating such 
. pests or infectious diseases as they may deem capable of being exterminated 
within the boundaries of the State, and..for suppressing such as ean net be 
exterminated and for preventing the spread of such pests or diseases within the 
State; and for the purpose of disseminating knowledge concerning contagious 
diseases or injurious pests affecting crops, plants, trees, ete., aid the remedies, 
preventives, and disinfectants applicable thereto, the commission shall from 
time to time, as they may deem necessary, have printed and distributed bulletins 
containing such information, remedies, preventives, and disinfectants as they 
may approve, including also the rules, orders, ordinances, and regulations of 
said commission, which said bulletins shall be printed and distributed to all 
interested persons under the direction and supervision of the Louisiana State 
board of agriculture and immigration. When the said cominission has reason 
to suspect that any pest or plant disease listed by them as dangerous, exists in 
any parish of the State, they shall cause such suspicion to be verified by a person 
competent to determine the specific identity of such crop pests or disease of 
plant, and if such suspicion prove well founded, the inspector of said commission 
shall immediately take charge of said infected property and adopt such measures 
for the treatment or extermination of same as the commission may direct. 
Any duly authorized agent of the commission shall have authority to inspect any 
building, warehouse, depot, or place where any property is located, or premises 
or field supposed to be infested by any crop pest or disease listed and pub- 
lished as such by the said commission, and if, in the opinion of the entomologist 
selected by said commission, it shall be necessary to destroy the property so 
infested so as to prevent the further spread of said injurious crop pest or dis- 
ease, he shall have authority to destroy said property, and the commission shall 
have the right to fix a compensation to be awarded the owner thereof. If the 
owner should be dissatisfied with the amount allowed by said commission as 
compensation for the property destroyed, he shall have the right to appeal to 
the court of the parish in which such property is destroyed, but in no case 
shall any contest as to the value of the property to be destroyed suspend action 
by the commission in inforcing their rules, orders, ordinances, and regulations. 
Any one who shall seek to prevent any inspection under the direction of 
said commission, or who shall otherwise interfere with the agents or employes 
of said commission while in the performance of their duties, shall, upon con- 
viction, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred 
dollars for each offense, or may be imprisoned for not less than ten nor more 
than thirty days. Prosecution under the provisions of this section shall be 
instituted in any parish of the State in which the offense is committed. 
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, etc., That all fines collected from prosecutions 
under the provisions of this act shall be paid to the State treasurer and by him 
placed to the credit of said commission. 
Sec. 8 Be it further enacted, etc., That said commission shall not be required 
to give any bond or security in any legal proceedings which it shall institute cr 
defend in any court of justice in this State. 
Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, etc., That for the purpose of carrying out the 
provisions of this act the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, 
is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appro- 
priated, and shall be paid by the State treasurer upon properly authenticated 
vouchers signed by the president or secretary of said commission. 
Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, etc., That all laws or parts of laws in conflict 
or inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. 
Approved December 15, 1903. 
