104 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
be allowed only such expenses as have been specifically incurred and necessary 
in attending the meetings of the commission. 
Sec. 2. The members of the commission aforesaid shall hold a meeting 
within thirty days after the ratification of this act, and shall prepare and pub- 
lish a list of dangerous crop pests, known to be present within the State or 
liable to be introduced, and may at any subsequent meeting extend or amend 
said list. The commission shall also publish methods for exterminating such 
pests as they may deem capable of being economically exterminated within the 
boundaries of the State, and for repressing such as can not be economically 
exterminated, and for preventing the spread of such pests within the State. 
They may also adopt regulations, not inconsistent with the laws and constitution 
of this State and the United States, for preventing the introduction of dangerous 
crop pests from without the State, and for governing common carriers in trans- 
porting plants liable to harbor such pests to and from the State, and such 
regulations shall have the force of laws. 
Sec. 3. No person, firm, or corporation shall knowingly and wilfully keep 
upon his or their premises any plant infested by any dangerous crop pest listed 
and published as such by the said commission, or permit dangerous weed pests 
to mature seed or otherwise multiply upon their land except under such regu- 
lations as the commission may prescribe. Every such infested plant and 
premises are hereby declared a public nuisance. The owner of such plants or 
premises shall, when notified to do so by the commission, take such measures as 
may be prescribed to eradicate such pests, and if such action is not taken, or is 
improperly executed within ten days after being so notified, the commission 
Shall cause said premises to be freed from such pests by the best available 
method, and the cost of such work shall be a lien against such premises. and 
may be recovered, together with cost of action, before any court in the State 
having competent jurisdiction. Said notice shall be written and mailed to the 
usual or known address, or left at the ordinary place of business of said owner 
or his agent. No damage shall be awarded the owner of such premises for 
entering thereon and destroying or otherwise treating any infested plant or crop, 
when done by the order of the commission. 
Sec. 4. When said commission has reason to suspect that any pest listed by 
them as dangerous exists in any county in the State, they shall cause such sus- 
picion to be verified by a person competent to determine the specific identity of 
such pests of crops, and if such suspicion prove founded upon fact, shall further 
appoint, for a designated time and duty, a competent person their agent to in- 
spect such infested premises and to take such measures for treating the same as 
the commission may direct. Any duly authorized agent of the commission shall 
have authority to enter upon and inspect any premises between the hours of 
sunrise and sunset during every working day of the year. Any one who shall 
seek to prevent such inspection, or who shall otherwise interfere with any agent 
of the commission while in performance of his duties, shall, upon conviction, be 
fined not less than $5 nor more than $50 for each offense, or may be imprisoned 
for not less than ten nor more than thirty days. 
Sec. 5. For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act, the sum of 
$500 per annum, or so much thereof as is necessary, is hereby appropriated, out 
of any funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and shall be paid by 
the State treasurer upon properly authenticated vouchers signed by the chair- 
man of the commission. 
Src. 6. The said commission shall report to the governor, for transmission to 
the next general assembly, its acts and disbursements under the provisions of 
this act. Such a report, together with all such circulars as may be issued by the 
