18 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
SECTION 1. Whenever a petition is presented to the board of supervisors of any 
county, and signed by twenty-five or more persons, each of whom is a resident 
freeholder and possessor of an orchard, stating that certain or all orchards, or 
nurseries, or trees or plants of any variety are infested with any serious infec- 
tious diseases, or scale insects of any kind, injurious to fruit, fruit trees, vines, 
or other plants or vegetables, or that there is growing therein the Russian this- 
tle or salt wort (Se@lsoli kali, variety tragus), or other noxious weeds, codlin . 
moth, or other insects that are destructive to trees, and praying that a commis- 
sion appointed by them, whose duty it shall be to supervise the destruction of 
said seale insects, diseases or Russian thistle or salt wort, or other noxious 
weeds as herein provided, the board of supervisors shall, within twenty days > 
thereafter, appoint a board of horticultural commissioners, consisting of three 
members, who shall be qualified for the duties of horticultural commissioner. 
Upon the petition of twenty-five resident freeholders and possessors of an 
orchard, the board of supervisors may remove any of said commissioners for 
cause, after a hearing of the petition. 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the county board of horticultural commis- 
Sioners in each county, whenever it shall deem it necessary, to cause an inspec- 
tion to be made of any premises, orchards, or nursery, or trees, plants, vegeta- 
bles, vines, or fruits, or any fruit-packing house, storeroom, salesroom, or any 
other place or articles in their jurisdiction, and if found infested with infectious 
diseases, scale insects, or codlin moth, or other pests injurious to fruit, plants, 
vegetables, trees, or vines, or with their eggs or larve, or if there is found 
growing thereon the Russian thistle or salt wort, or other noxious weeds, they 
shall notify the owner or owners, or person or persons in charge, or in possession 
of the said places or orchards, or nurseries, or trees, or plants, vegetables, vines, 
or fruit, or article as aforesaid that the same are infested with said diseases, 
insects, or other pests, or any of them, or their eggs or larve, or that the Rus- 
sian thistle or salt wort or other noxious weeds is growing thereon, and they 
shall require such person or persons to eradicate or destroy the said insects, or 
other pests, or their eggs or larve, or Russian thistle or salt wort, or other nox- 
ious weeds within a certain time to be specified. Said notices may be served 
upon the person or persons, or either of them owning or having charge, or having 
possession of such infested place, or orchard, or nursery, or trees, plants, vegeta- 
bles, vines, or fruit, or articles, as aforesaid, or premises where the Russian this- 
tle or salt wort or other noxious weeds shall be growing, by any commissioner, 
or by any person deputed by the said commissioners for that purpose, or they 
may be served in the same manner as a Summons in a civil action. Any and all 
such places, or orchards, or nurseries, or trees, plants, shrubs, vegetables, vines, 
fruit, or articles thus infested, or premises where the Russian thistle or salt 
wort or other noxious weeds shall be growing, are hereby adjudged and de- 
clared to be a public nuisance; and whenever any such nuisance shall exist at 
any place within their jurisdiction, or on the property of any nonresident, or on 
any property the owner or owners of which can not be found by the county 
board of horticultural commissioners, after diligent search, within the county, or 
on the property of any owner or owners upon which notice aforesaid has been 
served, and who shall refuse or neglect to abate the same within the time speci- 
fied, it shall be the duty of the county board of horticultural commissioners to — 
cause said nuisance to be at once abated, by eradicating or destroying said dis- 
eases, insects, or other pests, or their eggs or larve, or Russian thistle or sait 
wort or other noxious weeds. The expense thereof shall be a county charge, 
and the board of supervisors shall allow and pay the same out of the general 
