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officers certify to such justice of the peace that said nursery stock is appar- 
ently free from the insects and diseases mentioned herein, and tag every such 
carload, box, bale, and package inspected by said officers with their certificate 
of inspection; and if said agent or consignee shall fail to have said nursery 
stock examined by said State officials or fail to return such carload, box, bale, 
or package thereof, then said justice of the peace shall order and direct the 
constable or sheriff to burn and destroy all such trees, plants, shrubs, vines, buds, 
or cuttings that have been shipped into this State in violation of this act. 
61. That whenever any agent of a transportation company, firm, or person 
skall receive a carload, box, bale, or package of trees, plants, shrubs, vines, 
buds, or cuttings without a certificate attached, as provided for in section 60 of 
his act, and shall fail to notify the State entomologist or State pathologist of 
this fact immediately upon the arrival of such nursery stock, and before deliver- 
ing the same to the consignee, said agent of the transportation company, firm, 
or person shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction 
before a justice of the peace, be fined a sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) 
nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and costs of prosecution for each 
and every offense, and stand committed until such fine and costs are paid; and 
the fines so collected shall be paid to the trustees of said college to be added to 
the funds herein provided for carrying out the provisions of this act. If any 
nurseryman, dealer, or agent sell, ship, or deliver any trees, plants, shrubs, or 
vines into or in this State, which is infested with San Jose seale, peach-yellows, 
pear-blight, or other injurious diseases, and upon examination by the State 
pathologist, State entomologist, or their assistants, is condemned by being so 
infested, the said trees, plants, vines, and shrubs shall be destroyed, and the 
nurseryman, dealer, or agent shall forfeit the value of such stock, and shall not 
collect the same from the purchaser or consignee. 
62. That the State entomologist, State pathologist, and State horticulturist 
shall submit annually a written report on or before the first day of February of 
their inspections and investigations to the board of trustees, which shall be 
transmitted to the governor of the State and the general assembly, and pub- 
lished, as are the reports of other State organizations, and distributed among the 
people of the State as bulletins of the Maryland agricultural experiment station. 
63. That the report of the present State entomologist, including the work done 
by him up to the date of the passage of this act, shall be published and dis- 
tributed as indicated and provided for in section 62 of this act, as the first 
annual report of the Maryland state entomologist. 
64. That the sum of ten thousand dollars the first year, and eight thousand 
dollars annually thereafter be, and is hereby, appropriated in order to carry out 
the provisions of this act and properly provide for the above-described inspec- 
tions; to employ men qualified for their respective positions; to procure the 
requisite facilities and equipment necessary for the proper performance of the 
duties herein incurred, and to offer means of support for investigation in addi- 
tion to the inspection work of the State officers, and the dissemination of 
information that will promote the horticultural and agricultural interests of 
this State. 
65. That the comptroller be, and that he is hereby, authorized to issue his 
warrant upon the treasurer of this State for the said sum of ten thousand dollars 
for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and the sum of eight thousand 
dollars annually thereafter, out of any funds not otherwise appropriated; that 
the said sum of money shall be payable to the Maryland Agricultural College on 
or before the first of October of each fiscal year, and the first yearly payment 
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