58 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
- RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE STATE Crop PEST COMMISSION OF LOUISIANA. 
SecTION 1. Be it declared, ordained, and ordered, That the following insects 
are hereby declared to be dangerous crop and fruit pests: 
(a) The Mexican boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis). 
(b) The San Jose scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus) : Provided, however, That 
this commission may, from time to time, declare other crop and fruit pests and 
diseases to be dangerous. 
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained and ordered, That in order to prevent the intro- 
duction of the Mexican boll weevil into the uninfested part of the State of 
Louisiana from the State of Texas and from the infested portion of Louisiana, 
where the boll weevil is now known to exist, a quarantine is hereby declared 
to exist against the State of Texas and against the following parishes of 
Louisiana, to wit: Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, Cameron, De Soto, Grant, Natchi- 
toches, Rapides, Red River, Sabine, Vernon, Winn. 
(a) That no cotton seed, seed cotton, cotton-seed hulls (except such cotton- 
seed hulls as are packed, shipped, and handled in a manner approved by this 
commission when formal permit for their shipment has been issued by this 
commission, such permit to accompany shipment when consigned to any point 
in the noninfested portion of Louisiana), or cotton-seed sacks or seed-cotton 
sacks shall be shipped into the uninfested portion of Louisiana from the State 
of Texas or from the infested parishes of Louisiana as above enumerated. 
(b) That the quarantine hereby declared may, from time to time as the neces- 
sity may arise, be extended to include counties in any State or Territory or 
parishes in the State of Louisiana, or elsewhere. 
All railroads, steamboats, express companies, and other common carriers 
entering the State of Louisiana from the State of Texas or from the infested 
parishes of this State are especially enjoined to comply with the requirements 
of this order and of the laws of the State of Louisiana governing same. 
Sec. 3. Be it further declared, ordained, and ordered, That no person, firm, 
er corporation, except a duly authorized State or Federal entomologist, shall 
bring into or have in his possession in the uninfested portion of the State of 
Louisiana, for any purpose whatever, any living Mexican boll weevil er cotton 
boll, square, plant, or seed containing the Mexican boll weevil, whether adult 
or in the pupal, larval, or egg state; and any such person, firm, or corporation 
violating this provision of the act of the legislature shall, on conviction, as 
prescribed by section 4 of Act No. 6 of the extra session of the legislature, ap- 
proved December 15, 1903, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more | 
than one thousand dollars for each offense, or imprisoned for not less than ten 
Gays nor more than six months. 
Sec. 4. Be it further declared, ordained, and ordered, That the experiment- 
station entomologist shall be the entomologist of this commission; and it is 
hereby made his duty, with the assistance of the inspectors hereafter provided 
for, to carry out and enforce the provisions of Act No. 6 of the extra session of 
the legislature of the State of Louisiana, approved December 15, 1903. In 
the enforcement of the said act of the legislature he shall have the right, and 
it is hereby made his duty whenever the public exigencies require it, to pre- 
vent the bringing into or carrying through the State of Louisiana of any of the 
property, articles, or things hereby quarantined against, and to condemn and 
cause the same to be destroyed, as well as condemn and cause to be destroyed 
all other property, premises, or fields in this State infested with the Mexican 
boll weevil or other seriously injurious insect or disease. 
The district attorneys throughout the State are hereby especially enjoined to 
