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deliver any such trees, vines, shrubs, or plants until after they have received 
such treatment and until they have been reexamined and a certificate of inspec- 
tion has been granted. 
Src. 10. Whenever it shall happen that the State inspector of orchards and 
nurseries shall give the notice heretofore required to the owner of nursery stock 
for the destruction of the insects or diseases mentioned, and said owner shall fail 
cr neglect to: take the measures necessary for the destruction thereof within 
the time mentioned in the notice given him, the State inspector of orchards and 
nurseries shall enter complaint against said owner and may seize and take pos- 
session of said infected or infested nursery stock. Such seizure may be made 
without a warrant. Said infected or irfested nursery stock shall be disposed of 
in such manner as may be directed by the court before whom the offense i: 
tried, or by any court of competent jurisdiction. : 
Sec. 11. Whenever any trees, shrubs, plants, or vines, commonly known a: 
nursery stock, are shipped into this State from another State, Territory, 
province, or country, every package thereof shall be plainly labeled on the out- 
side with the names of the consignor and consignee, and the character of the 
contents, and certificates shall be attached to each package showing that the 
contents have been inspected by a State and Government officer and that they 
have been fumigated in the usual manner with hydrocyanic-acid gas. If any 
trees, shrubs, vines, or plants, commonly known as nursery stock, are shipped 
into this State without such certificates being plainly fixed on the outside of 
the package, box, or car containing the same, the fact must be reported within 
twenty-four hours to the Michigan State board of agriculture, or its regularly 
appointed inspector, by the railway, express, or steamboat company or the 
person or persons carrying the same; and any agent of a railway, express, or 
steamboat company or any other person or persons who shall fail to comply 
with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
The State inspector of orchards and nurseries shall have authority, when he has 
reason to believe that nursery stock that has been shipped into the State, or 
shipped by some nursery in the State, is infested or infected with dangerous 
insects and diseases, to examine the same, and, if found to be infected by any 
dangerously contagious disease or infested with dangerous insects, such stock 
may be seized without a warrant as a public nuisance. The shipper shall be 
notified of the seizure, and orders shall be given him to either destroy the stock 
or to give it effectual treatment. If this is not done within five days, complaint 
shall be made to some court having competent jurisdiction, and said infected 
or infested stock shall be disposed of in such manner as may be directed by 
said court. 
Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of the State inspector cf orchards and nurseries, 
whenever it shall come to his knowledge that San Jose scale, cankerworm, 
peach yellows, rosette, little peach, black knot, cr pear blight, or any other 
noxious insects or dangerously infectious diseases exist, or are supposed to 
exist, in any orchard, or upon any trees, shrubs, vines, plants, or fruits in this 
State, to investigate the case and if such dangerous insects or diseases are 
found he shall notify the owner, or his agent, in writing. The notice shall 
consist of a simple statement of the facts as found to exist, with an order to 
uproot and destroy in such manner as may be indicated all trees infected with 
yellows, little peach, or rosette, or to cut off and burn the portions infected with 
black knot and pear blight, or if attacked by San Jose scale or cankerworm, 
to effectually spray the trees, or to use such remedies as may be prescribed for 
other dangerous insects and diseases within five days, or such time from the 
date of the service of the notice as may be designated: Provided also, That no 
