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the order, which the said officer shall thereupon be fully authorized to do; fines 
recovered under this act shall be collected and chargeable as are other judg- 
ments of the court imposing the same. 
15.¢ All proceedings to enforce the provisions of this act shall be brought in 
.the name of and prosecuted by the State board of agriculture through the 
committee of appeal appointed by the executive committee of the board, us 
prescribed in section twelve of this act, and in any court of competent juris- 
diction in the county in which the offense complained of shall have been con- 
initted; action by said committee shall be based upon a report from the State 
entomologist, certifying the character of the offense committed and the proof 
supporting the charge; all fines and costs shall, after deducting therefrom the 
necessary costs of prosecution, be paid into the treasury of the State, accom- 
panied by a statement showing the amount collected and the cost of collecting 
the same. 
16. For the purpose of making the inspections, examinations and investiga- 
tions specified in this act, and to enforce the provisions of the same, the State 
entomologist and his duly appointed deputy may enter upon any lands, open 
or inclosed, upon which such inspections, examinations, and investigations are 
necessary or where any nuisance as defined in section one of this act is main- 
tained or charged, and into any storehouse or building containing nursery stock 
whieh he is herein directed or entitled to inspect, and any interference with or 
obstruction made to the entomologist or his deputy while engaged in the per- 
formance of the duties herein imposed shall subject the offender to punishment 
as a disorderly person under the general laws of this State upon a charge made 
against him by the officer interfered with. 
17. The sum of three thousand dollars annually is hereby appropriated to the 
State board of agriculture for the purposes of this act: Provided, That no pay- 
ment shall be made pursuant to this act until the amount thereof shall have - 
been included in the annual appropriation bill. 
18. Chapter one hundred and four, laws of one thousand eight hundred and 
ninety-eight, bearing the same title as the present act, is hereby repealed. 
19. This act shall take effect immediately. 
Approved April 14, 1903. 
An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to prevent the introduction into and the 
spread of injurious insects in New Jersey, to provide a method for compelling their 
destruction, to create the office of State entomologist, to authorize inspection of 
nurseries, and to provide for certificates of inspection,’ approved April fourteenth, 
one thousand nine hundred and three. 
Be it enacted by the senate and general assembly of the State of New Jersey: 
1. Section fifteen of the act to which this is an amendment is hereby repealed 
and the following substituted : 
15. Proceedings to enforce the provisions of this act shall be brought in the 
name of and prosecuted by the State board of agriculture, through the committee 
of appeal appointed by the executive committee of the board, as prescribed in 
section twelve of this act; every district court and every justice of the peace in 
any city or county, and every police justice or recorder in any city, is hereby 
empowered, on complaint under oath or affirmation made according to law that 
any person or persons has or have violated any of the provisions of this act, to 
issue process in the name of the State board of agriculture of the State of New 
Jersey as prosecutor, for the use of the State of New Jersey; said oath or 
a@See act approved March 22, 1904, for amendment of this section, 
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