66 LAWS” AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
shall be made during the fiscal year ending September first, eighteen hundred and 
ninety-eight. 
Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from the date of its 
passage. 
Approved April 9, 1898. | 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
Acts oF 1902, CHAPTER 495. 
AN Act to authorize the State board of agriculture to appoint a State nursery inspector 
and to provide for the protection of trees and shrubs from injurious insects and dis- 
eases, : 
Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 
SEcTION 1. The State board of agriculture shall annually appoint some person 
qualified by scientific training and practical experience, to be State nursery 
inspector, and he shall be responsible to the board for the performance of his 
duties as prescribed in this act. The said inspeetor may appoint such number 
of deputies, not exceeding three, as he may deem necessary or expedient. 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the State nursery inspector, either personally 
or through his deputies, to inspect at least once each year all nurseries or places 
in the State where nursery stock is grown. sold, or offered for sale, and if no 
dangerous insect or fungous pests are found therein a certificate to that effect 
shall be given. If such pests are found therein the owner of the stock shall 
take such measures to suppress the same as the State nursery inspector shall 
prescribe, and no certificate shall be given until the said inspector has satisfied 
himself by subsequent inspections that all such pests have been suppressed. 
Sec. 3. Any owners of nurseries or of places in the State where nursery stock 
is grown, sold, or offered for sale, who do not hold an unexpired certificate of 
inspection after the first annual inspection made after the passage of this act, 
who shall sell or otherwise dispose of nursery stock in the State, shall be sub- 
ject to a penalty of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dol- 
lars for each offence. 
Sec. 4. Any owners of nurseries or of places in the State where nursery stock 
is grown, sold. or offered for sale, who shall fumigate with hydrocyanic-acid gas 
all stock which they sell, using at least two-tenths of a gram of potassic cyanide 
to every cubic foot of space contained in the box, house, or other place wherein 
this fumigation is performed, which place shall be gas tight, and who shall | 
expose the said stock to the fumes of this gas of the strength aforesaid for at 
least forty minutes, or who shall treat the stock which they sell by some other 
method approved by the State nursery inspector, and who shall make affidavit 
before a justice of the peace that all stock sold by them has thus been fumigated 
or treated, and who shall attach a copy of such affidavit to each package, box, 
or car of stock sold, shall be exempt from the provisions of sections two and 
three of this act. 
Sec. 5. All nursery stock shipped into this State from any other State, coun- 
try, or province shall bear on each box or package a certificate that the con- 
tents of said box or package have been inspected by a duly authorized inspect- 
ing officer, and that said contents appear to be free from all dangerous insects 
or diseases. In case nursery stock is brought within the State without such a 
certificate the consignee shall return it to the consignor at the expense of the 
