28 | LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
in possession as aforesaid, and the loss to fall upon such owner or owners, 
tenant or tenants, as aforesaid. 
The said board of agriculture, its agents, officers, or servants shall treat or 
have treated at the expense of the owner or owners in order to prevent the 
“spread or dissemination of the aforesaid insects or diseases, or any new ones 
which may appear, and all suspicious trees, vines, shrubs, plants, or grains found. 
to be in a dangerous proximity to those infested as aforesaid. 
Sec. 5. That should any owner or owners of any trees, vines, shrubs, plants, 
or grains infested as aforesaid, or the tenant or tenants in possession of the 
premises whereon any such trees, vines, shrubs, or grains are found, or should 
any owner or owners of any trees, vines, shrubs, plants, or grains in dangerous 
proximity to those infested as aforesaid. fail, neglect, or refuse after thirty 
days’ notice by said board to pay all of the expenses incurred by the said board 
in treating or in destroying such infested trees, plants, shrubs, vines, or grains, 
or those in dangerous proximity thereto, he or they shall be guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than double the 
amount of the expenses incurred by the said board in treating or destroying 
the trees, plants, vines, shrubs, or grains aforesaid, and shall also be liable in a 
civil suit to be brought in the name of the “State board of agriculture” for the 
recovery of such expenses, together with all costs of suit. Said action may be 
brought before any justice of the peace of the county wherein such trees, plants, 
vines, shrubs, or grains mentioned herein are found, or in the superior court of 
the State of Delaware in any county. The right of appeal shall be the same as 
in other civil causes. 
Sec. 6. That in order to accomplish the purposes of this act, the said board 
of agriculture, its officers, employees, agents, and servants are hereby author- 
ized to enter upon any public premises, parks, cemeteries, or other premises, 
or upon any land of any person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or corpora- 
tions within this State for the purpose of inspecting, examining, destroying, treat- 
ing, or experimenting upon the insects and diseases aforesaid. 
Sec. 7. That it shall be the duty of the board of agriculture to send at least 
one of its officers, agents. or employees at least once a year into each county of 
the State for the purpose of examining and determining thereby the healthful- 
ness and general condition of the horticultural and agricultural interests. 
Sec. 8. That the board of agriculture, whenever it shall receive reliable 
information, or shall otherwise know, that any dangerously injurious insect, 
pest, or disease exists in any tree, vine, shrub, plant, or grain, anywhere in the 
State, shall, in addition to the other duties, acts, and things herein prescribed 
to be done and performed by it, warn the farmers and other persons residing 
in the hundred in which any such insect, pest, or disease exists, and also per- 
sons living near the infested places of the nature of such insect, pest, or disease, 
and the localities where it exists, and shall also furnish to the said farmers and 
said other persons any and all information and knowledge the said board may 
have or be able to procure of the remedies to be applied to suppress, abate, and 
eradicate the said insects, pests, or diseases. 
Sec. 9. That the said board of agriculture shall examine and inspect, or cause 
to be examined and inspected, at least once every year, at such time as it shall 
deem it best. any and all nurseries of trees, vines, shrubs, plants, grafts, cut- 
tings, and buds in this State subject to the aforesaid insects, pests, and diseases, 
and if found apparently free, so far as can be determined by inspection, from the 
insects, pests, and diseases aforesaid to make and issue and give to the owner or 
owners or persons in charge of the said nurseries a certificate of inspection in 
such form as said board may prescribe, certifying that such nurseries or prem- 
