MICHIGAN. (Oi 
MICHIGAN. 
Aon Oi Ba A. 1905; 
An Act to prevent the importation from other States and the spread within this State 
of dangerous insects and dangerously contagious diseases affecting trees, shrubs, 
vines, plants, and fruits, and to repeal all acts or part [parts] of acts that contravene 
the provisions of this act. 
The people of the State of Michigan enact: 
SEecTIon 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corpora- 
tion, knowingly, to keep upon their premises, or upon premises under their con- 
trol or charge, any trees or fruit infected with the diseases known as peach yei- 
lows, rosette, or little peach, or any part of a tree infected with the diseases 
known as black knot or pear blight, or any tree, shrub, plant, or vine infected 
with any other dangerously contagious disease, or infested with the San Jose 
scale, cankerworm, or any other dangerously noxious insect pest. It shall also 
be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation, knowingly, to sell 
or offer for sale, or to give away, any tree, shrub, plant, or vine infected or 
infested with any dangerously infectious disease or noxious insect, or any fruit 
infected with peach yellows. 
Sec. 2. The State board of agriculture shall, upon the passage of this act, 
appoint some competent person to be known as State inspector of orchards and 
nurseries, who shall hold office for two years, and whose duties shall be as here- 
inafter prescribed. He shall have power to appoint such number of deputy 
inspectors as may be necessary, subject to the approval of the State board of 
agriculture. Said deputy inspectors shall act under the orders of, and shall per- 
form such duties as may be directed by the State inspector of orchards and 
nurseries. The salary, or per diem, of the State and deputy inspectors shall be 
fixed by the State board of agriculture. 
Sec. 3. Any person or persons, firm or corporation, growing or offering for 
sale, in this State, any trees, shrubs, vines, or plants, commonly known as 
nursery stock, shall, on or before the first day of August in each year, apply to 
the Michigan State board of agriculture for the inspection of said stock under 
the provisions of this act and for a license for its sale. A license fee of five 
dellars shall be paid, and a bond for one thousand dollars, with sureties satis- 
factory to said board, and conditioned upon the compliance with the require- 
ments of this act, shall be filed. No nursery stock shall be shipped or delivered 
until it has been examined by the State inspector of orchards and nurseries, or 
a deputy inspector and has received a certificate as hereinafter provided. All 
growers or dealers in nursery stock shall, upon demand, file with the State board 
of agriculture a list of the persons to whom they have sold or delivered any 
nursery stock, giving the species, which list shall be for the sole use of the State 
inspector of orchards and nurseries and his deputies: Provided, That the pro- 
visions of this section shall not apply to persons engaged in fruit growing, who 
are not nurserymen, but desire to sell or exchange surplus fruit plants of their 
own growing: Provided further, That the provisions of this section shall not 
apply to farmers or other persons who may sell shade trees from their own wood 
lots. 
Sec. 4. No person or persons, firm, or corporation, residents of another State, 
Territory, province, or country, shall engage or continue in the business of selling 
or taking orders within this State for the sale of any trees, plants, shrubs, or 
vines, commonly known as nursery stock, without first obtaining from the State 
board of agriculture a license, as provided for in section three of this act, and 
