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of ten tax-paying citizens of said county, to select three competent persons, fruit 
crowers or owners of orchards, residents of such county, who shall be known 
as the county board of horticultural commissioners. ‘The board of county com- 
missioners shall fill any vacancy that may occur in said board by death, resigna- 
tion, or otherwise, and appoint one horticultural commissioner each year, or 
thereabouts, one month, or thereabouts, previous to the expiration of the term of 
office of any member of the said county board of horticultural commissioners. 
Said county board of horticultural commissioners shall serve for a term of three 
years from date of appointment, except the commissioners first appointed, one 
of whom shall serve for one year, one of whom for two years, and one of whom 
for three years, from date of appointment. The commissioners first appointed 
shall themselves decide by lot or otherwise who shail serve for one year, who 
shall serve for two years, and who shall serve for three years, and shall notify 
the board of county comiissioners of the result of their choice. 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the county board of horticultural commissioners 
in each county, whenever it shall deem it necessary, to cause an inspection to 
be made of any orchard, or nursery, or trees, or any fruit packing house, store- 
room, Sales-room, or any other place in their jurisdiction, and if found infested 
with scale bug, codlin moth, or other insect pest injurious to fruit, trees, and 
vines, they shall notify the owner or owners, or person or persons in charge or 
possession of said trees or place aforesaid that the same are infested with said 
insects, or any of them, or their eggs or larve, and they shall require such per- 
son or persons to disinfect or destroy the same within a certain time, to be speci- 
fied: Provided, That no spraying of trees while in bloom shall be required to 
be done. If within such time such disinfection or destruction has not been 
accomplished, the said person or persons shall be required to make application 
of such treatment, for the purpose of destroying them, as said commissioners 
may prescribe. Said notices may be served upon the person or persons owning 
or having charge or possession of such infested trees, or places, or articles as 
aforesaid, by any commissioner or by any person deputed by the said commis- 
sioners for that purpose, or they may be served in the same manner as a sulM- 
mons in a civil action. If the owner or owners, or persons in charge or posses- 
sion of any orchard, or nursery, or trees, or places, or articles infested with said 
insects, or any of them, or their larve or eggs, after having been notified as 
above to destroy the same or make application of treatment as directed, shall 
fail, neglect, or refuse to do so, he or they shall be deemed guilty of maintain- 
ing a public nuisance, and any such orchards, nurseries, trees, or places, or arti- 
cles thus infested shall be adjudged and the same is hereby declared a public 
nuisance, and may be proceeded against as such. If found guilty, the court 
shall direct the aforesaid county board of horticultural commissioners to 
abate the nuisance. The expenses thus incurred shall be a lien upon the real 
property of the defendant. 
Sec. 3. The said county board of horticultural commissioners shall have power 
to divide the county into districts and to appoint a local inspector for each of 
said districts. The board of county commissioners of each county shall issue 
commissions as quarantine guardians to the members of said county board of 
horticultural commissioners, and to the local inspectors thereof. The said 
quarantine guardians, local inspectors, or members of said county boards of 
horticultural commissioners, and to the local inspectors thereof. The said 
chard, nursery, or place or places where trees or plants are kept and offered 
for sale, or otherwise, or any house, storeroom, sales room, depot, or any other 
such place in their jurisdiction, to inspect the same, or any part thereof. 
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of said county board of horticultural commis- 
