CALIFORNIA, . 13 
ARKANSAS. 
Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Arkansas: 
SEcTION 1. Whenever any trees, vines, bushes, scions, cuttings, buds, or any 
nursery stock are shipped into this State from another State, county, or province, 
every package or quantity thereof shall be plainly labeled on the outside with 
the name and address of the consignor, the name and address of the consignee, 
the contents, and a certificate showing that the contents have been inspected by 
a State or experiment station entomologist of the State from which the shipment 
was made; that the trees, vines, bushes, scions, cuttings, buds, or other nursery 
stock therein contained are free from San Jose scale, peach yellows, rosette, or 
other dangerously injurious insects, or contagious or infectious fungoid or other 
diseases, and whenever any trees, vines, bushes, scions, buds, cuttings, or other 
nursery stock is shipped into the State without such certificate plainly fixed on 
the outside of the package, box, or car containing the same, the fact must be 
reported to the consignor by the railway company or express company, or other 
person or persons, corporations, or companies carrying the same, and said pack- 
age, box, or car, or quantity thereof shall not be delivered to the consignee until 
the same shall bear the aforesaid certificate; and any railroad company, steam- 
boat company, or express company, person or persons, corporation or company 
who shall violate or evade the provisions of this section, or offer any hindrance 
to the carrying out of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred 
dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, and such fine shall go into the gen- 
eral school fund of the State of Arkansas. 
Sec. 2. That the entomologist of the experiment station of the university at 
Fayetteville be, and he is hereby, made the State inspector for the State of 
Arkansas, and he shall, when requested to do so by owners of nursery stock 
grown in this State, such as described in section one of this act, visit and 
inspect said nursery, and if found to be free from all insects, contagious or 
infectious fungoids or other diseases, he shall issue certificates of inspection in 
accordance herewith; said inspector shall receive as fees for said inspection five 
dollars for each fifty acres or fraction thereof, and all traveling expenses to be 
paid by those having the stock inspected, it being the intention of this act to 
provide an inspection of nursery stock grown in the State of Arkansas, so that 
the same may be inspected so as to enable them to ship to other States, and this 
act is to conform to other State laws. 
Sec. 3. This act to take effect from and after its passage; all laws and parts 
of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. 
Approved May 20, 1908. 
CALIFORNIA. 
STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE. 
AN AcT to create a State commission of horticulture. 
[Approved March 25, 1903. Amended March 20, 1905.] 
The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do 
enact as follows: 
SECTION 1. The office of State commissioner of horticulture of California is 
hereby created. It shall be the duty of the governor, within forty days after 
