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without the State to any point within the State shall immediately, upon receiv- 
ing such consignments, notify the commissioner of agriculture of the fact that 
such consignment is in their possession, giving the name of the consignor and 
consignee and the point of destination of such consignment. All trees, plants, 
shrubs, buds, or cuttings, commonly called nursery stock, grown in any nursery 
in this State in which San José scale has been found within two years of the 
date of the dissemination of said nursery stock or grown in said nursery within 
one-half a mile of where said scale was found, and also all nursery stock from 
outside of this State disseminated or planted in tais State after the first day of 
July, nineteen hundred and two, must be fumigated with hydrocyanic gas in such 
manner as may be directed by the commissioner of agriculture of this State. 
Such fumigation must be done by the grower, consignor, or consignee of such 
stock before planting, dissemination, or reshipment, except such trees, shrubs, 
plants, buds, or cuttings grown in this State as are planted by the grower or 
propagator for himself or such as from its nature or state of growth would be 
exempt; in such cases the said commissioner shall declare such trees, shrubs, 
plants, buds, or cuttings free from such treatment. AI] nursery stock brought 
into this State from outside of this State must be accompanied by a certificate 
from the consignor that it has been fumigated as aforesaid. Should any such 
stock arrive without such certificate, the transportation company delivering it 
shall at once notify the said commissioner to that effect. The consignee shall 
also at once notify him of that fact and shall proceed to fumigate said stock, as 
directed by the commissioner of agriculture, without delay. Should any nursery 
stock purchased within one year be found infested with San Jose scale on the 
premises of any nurseryman, it shall not be considered such an infestation as 
to require the fumigation of other stock not so purchased. The words * nur- 
sery stock,’ wherever used in this article, shall apply to and include all trees, 
shrubs, plants, buds, willow grown for nursery, baskets, or other commercial 
purposes, or cuttings, whether grown in a nursery or elsewhere, so far as it 
relates to fumigation. The provisions of this and the preceding section shall 
not apply to florists’ greenhouse plants, flowers, or cuttings, commonly known 
as greenhouse stock, and no certificate shall be required for shipment of native 
stock collected in the United States not grown in nurseries, nor to stock so 
shipped into the State that its sale and shipment become either interstate-com- 
merce traffic or commerce with foreign nations. (As amended by chapter 519 
of the laws of 1902. 
NORTH CAROLINA. 
CHAPTER 264, LAWS oF 1897. 
AN Act to prevent the introduction and dissemination of dangerous insect, fungous, and 
weed pests of crops. 
The general assembly of North Carolina do enact: 
SecTION 1. That for the purpose of this act the State commissioner of agri- 
culture, the director of the North Carolina agricultural experiment station, and 
the president of the North Carolina State horticultural society are hereby con- 
stituted a commission for the extermination of noxious insects, fungous diseases, 
and weeds which are affecting or may affect crops. They are empowered to 
elect one of their number chairman, and to adopt rules and regulations for their 
own government, such as may be requisite for carrying out the provisions of 
this act. The members of the said commission shall receive no salary, and shall 
