72 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
filing a certificate of inspection from a State or Government officer, or some per- 
son designated by the Michigan State board of agriculture. 
Sec. 5. The State board of agriculture shall, upon the receipt of the required 
fee and a satisfactory bond and certificate of inspection, issue a license to each 
applicant, whether a resident of this State or of another State, province, or 
country, permitting the sale of nursery stock by the holder, or by his accredited 
agents, for the period ending the thirty-first of July following the date upon 
which said license goes into effect. 
Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the State inspector of orchards and nurseries 
to examine all nurseries in the State, at least once each year, for the presence 
of San Jose scale and other dangerously injurious insects and diseases. If 
found to be apparently free from such dangerous insects and diseases, a certi- 
ficate to that effect shall be given the owner, upon the payment of an inspection 
fee sufficient to defray the per diem of the inspector. Said certificate shall be 
void on the thirty-first day of July following. In case any dangerous insect or 
infectious disease is found upon any nursery stock the inspector shall order 
and enforce such treatment as may be deemed sufficient to exterminate such 
insects or diseases before granting a certificate. If a subsequent examination 
shall show the stock to be infected, or infested, the certificate may be revoked. 
Sec. 7. Whenever a nurseryman or other person shall ship or deliver withia 
this State, except for scientific purposes, any trees, shrubs, plants, or vines, com- 
monly known as nursery stock, he shall place upon each car, box, bale, or other 
package a copy of a certificate of inspection, the original of which is signed by 
said inspector. Failure to do this, or the illegal use of said certificate by chang- 
ing, defacing, or placing it upon uninspected stock, or using the same after it 
has expired or been revoked, shall render the shipper or owner liable to the pen- 
alties prescribed for a violation of this act. Dealers in nursery stock purchased 
from other firms may, upon filing with the State inspector of orchards and 
nurseries duplicate copies of the certificates of inspection issued upon the stock 
grown by said firms, and on the payment of a fee of one dollar, receive a certifi- 
cate showing that the stock has been inspected. Said certificate may be used 
for the shipment of nursery stock that has come to them accompanied by a 
certificate of inspection, but for no other. Nurserymen may ship under their 
own certificate of inspection any stock that has come to them later than the first 
day of the previous August accompanied by a certificate of inspection, and, if 
from another State, Territory, province, or county, by a certificate of fumiga- 
tion as required by this act. 
Sec. 8. If any nursery stock of species subject to the attack of the San Jose 
scale has been grown within one-half mile of where the San Jose scale exists, 
or has been known to exist within two years, it shall, before it is shipped or 
delivered, be fumigated with hydrocyanic-acid gas of the strength commonly 
used for such purpose for not less than thirty minutes. All trees, plants, 
shrubs, and vines of species subject to the attack of the San Jose scale shipped 
into this State from another State, Territory, province, or country, must be 
fumigated with hydrocyanic-acid gas in the usual manner, and each car. box, or 
bale in which said nursery stock is shipped shall have upon it a certificate 
signed by the shipper stating that such fumigation has been given in addition 
to the usual certificate of inspection. - : 
Sec. 9. The owner of any nursery trees, vines, shrubs, or plants, upon receiv- 
ing notice from the State inspector of orchards and nurseries that any or all of 
them are infected or infested with dangerous insects or diseases, shall, within 
the time specified in such notice, take such steps as will fully comply with the 
orders of the State inspector of orchards and nurseries, and he shall not ship or 
