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Src. 4. If the owner, or his lessee, of any tract or parcel of land described in 
any order made pursuant to section 3 of this act, upon whom service of a copy 
of such order has been duly made, shall fail or neglect to substantially comply 
therewith, he shall be deemed to maintain a public nuisance within the meaning 
of this act, and to consent that the said tract or parcel of land may be plowed 
by the county, and the board of county commissioners, when informed of such 
failure cr neglect, shall cause the land found by it to be so infected to be plowed, 
under the direction of the chairman of said board, and the expenses incurred by 
reason of such plowing shall be paid out of the county treasury, upon the war- 
rant of the county auditor, in favor of the person entitled to the same. 
Sec. 5. Whenever any tract of land shall have been plowed by the county, 
pursuant to the provisions of this act, and the plowing thereof shall be of value 
to the owner, or his lessee thereof, in the raising of any crops thereon during the 
season immediately following such plowing, such owner or lessee shall be liable 
to the county to the value of such plowing. Whenever the board of county com- 
missioners is of the opinion that any such liability has arisen by reason of such 
plowing, it shall determine the sum for which the owner or lessee is so liable, 
and direct the county auditor to demand the immediate payment thereof into 
the county treasury; and, if the same is not paid upon such demand, it is 
hereby made the duty of the county attorney to bring a civil action in the name 
of such board against the party so in default for the recovery of the same, and 
interest thereon from the date of such demand, provided that the amount so 
determined by the board of county commissioners shall be prima facie evidence 
of the value of such plowing. 
Sec. 6. For the purposes of this act, the entomologist employed by the regents 
of the University of Minnesota, at the State experiment station, located at the 
capital of the State, shall be deemed the State entomologist. 
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
MISSISSIPPI. 
AN AcT to make an appropriation for the years 1904 and 1905, for the purpose of pre- 
venting the introduction into the State of Mississippi of the Mexican cotton boll weevil, 
and to provide for the destruction and eradication of the same, whenever and wherever 
found in the State; establishing rules and regulations in relation thereto, and pro- 
viding for the enforcement of the same. 
SEcTION 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Mississippi, That 
the entomologist of the Mississippi agricultural experiment station is empow- 
ered, and it shall be his duty to prevent in every possible and practicable way 
the introduction into this State of the Mexican boll weevil, its eggs, larvee, or any 
other form of life through which it passes in development, should it make its 
appearance in this State, whenever and wherever found in this State. 
Sec. 2. The entomologist of the Mississippi agricultural experiment station 
shall have power to adopt rules and regulations governing the inspection, sale, 
and transportation of trees, plants, hays, cotton, cotton seed, cotton-seed hulls, or 
any other material or products of whatever nature or kind from districts or 
States known or suspected to be infested with the Mexican cotton boll weevil, 
and may require such articles and material to be disinfected or fumigated, ac- 
cording to his directions, or destroyed if found to be infected and their destruc- 
tion is deemed necessary, and it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, or 
any transportation company, to bring or cause to be brought into this State any 
article or articles that may serve to introduce the Mexican cotton boll weevil, 
contrary to the rules and regulations of the entomologist, and it shall also be 
unlawful for any person or persons residing without the State to send into the 
