14 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
the passage of this act, to appoint a citizen and resident of this State to hold 
said office of State commissioner of horticulture, who must at the date of his 
appointment be a skilled horticulturist and entomologist. The term of office 
shall be for four years and until a successor is appointed and qualified. The 
governor may remove such commissioner from office at any time upon filing 
with the secretary of state a certificate of removal signed by the governor. In 
case of a vacancy in said office by death, resignation, removal from office, or 
other cause, the governor shall fill the vacancy for the unexpired term. The 
salary of said commissioner shall be two hundred and fifty dollars per month, 
and he shall be allowed in addition a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars 
yearly for traveling and incidental expenses necessary in the discharge of his 
duties herein provided for. Such commissioner may appoint a secretary, who 
shall be versed in horticulture and entomology, and who shall be an experienced 
compiler of reports, bulletins, and such publications as may issue from said com- 
mission from time to time, and who shall perform all such duties as may be 
required of him by such commissioner. Such secretary of the horticultural 
commissioner shall receive a salary of twenty-one hundred dollars per annum.” 
In appointing such commissioner and his successor or successors it shall be the 
duty of the governor to disregard political affiliations and to be guided in his 
selection entirely by the professional and moral qualifications of the person so 
selected for the performance of the duties of said office. The office of said 
commissioner shall be kept open every day except holidays and shall be in 
charge of the secretary during the absence of such commissioner. The main 
office of such commissioner shall be at the city of Sacramento. The secrétary 
of state shall furnish and set aside in the capitol a room or rooms suitable for 
offices for said commissioner, and if the secretary of state shall make and file 
an affidavit with the said commissioner stating that it is not possible for him, as 
such secretary of state, to provide and set aside an office for said commissioner 
in the capitol or in any State building under his control, because there is no 
such office room or rooms available, then, and after the making and delivery of 
such affidavit to such commissioner, the said commissioner may rent rooms 
convenient and suitable for his offices under this act at a rental not to exceed 
five hundred dollars per year. Said commissioner may also keep and maintain 
an office in the city and county of San Francisco at a yearly rental not to exceed 
the sum of five hundred dollars, and may appoint a deputy commissioner, who 
shall be an expert entomologist and horticulturist, to have charge of said 
office under said commissioner, and to perform any and all duties which said 
commissioner may require. of him under this act and shall fix the monthly 
compensation of such deputy at $200 per month. Such deputy shall hold his 
position during the pleasure of such commissioner and may be removed from 
his office or position at any time by said commissioner filing with the secretary 
of state a certificate signed by said commissioner so removing such deputy. 
Said commissioner may also appoint, by and with the approval of the governor, 
such temporary deputies from time to time as may be required for quarantine 
purposes under this act, and such temporary deputies shall receive such com- 
pensation per diem as may be specified in the writing so approving such ap- 
pointment. If there be not sufficient furniture and office appliances turned 
over to such commissioner by the State board of horticulture heretofore exist- 
ing to furnish and equip properly the office or offices for such commissioner at 
Sacramento and San Francisco aforesaid, the said commissioner may, by and 
with the approval of the governor, purchase for the use of his said office or 
offices such furniture and appliances as may be necessary therefor, and from 
time to time, at an expense not to exceed a sum to be mentioned in such approval, 
