99 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
may withhold any compensation due such commissioner until such time as such 
report is made. 
Sec. 9. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the above are hereby re- 
pealed. 
Effective March 13, 1903. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
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 
diseases. 
Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives in general court 
convened: 
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 respousible to the board for the performance of his 
Cuties as prescribed in this act. The said inspector may appoint such number of 
deputies, not exceeding two, 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 shail pre- 
scribe, and no certificate shall be given until the said inspector has satisfied him- 
self 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 subject 
to a penalty of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars 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 hydrocyanie 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, ocr 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, may be exempt from the provisions of sections two and three 
cf this act. 
Sec. 5. All nursery stock shipped into this State from any other State, country. 
or province shall bear on each box or package an unexpired certificate that the 
contents of said box or package have been inspected by a duly authorized 
inspecting 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 certificate the consignee shall return it to the consignor at the expense cf 
the latter, or shall call the State nursery inspector to inspect the same: Pro- 
vided, however, That any package or box bearing a certificate of fumigation 
