118 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
be the duty of the secretary to proceed as speedily as possible, by himself or 
a duly authorized inspector, to investigate and dispose of such shipment. 
RULE 5. The inspector of the board of agriculture shall have power to require 
any nurseryman in the Territory to fumigate his trees, shrubs, or plants with 
hydrocyanie acid gas or other substance when, in his judgment, such treatment 
is necessary or advisable for the proper protection cf the agricultural or horti- 
cultural interests of the Territory or any section thereof. 
Ru LE 6. In addition to fruit trees the following shall be classed as nursery 
stock if offered for sale and shall be subject to the regulations governing the 
inspection and transportation of the same: Strawberry plants, vines, ornamental 
trees and shrubs, and field-grown roses. 
Rute 7. All nursery stock grown in States or Territories where there is no 
nursery-inspection law shall be inspected by the entomologist of the board of 
agriculture before the same can be delivered to the consignee. 
RULE 8. All fees for inspection shall be determined upon a basis of the actual 
cost of the same. : 
RULE 9. Tags or labels for use as prescribed in rules 1 and 3 may be procured 
from the secretary of the board of agriculture at actual cost, the prices being 
as follows, to wit: Seventy-five cents for the first hundred and 30 cents for each 
additional hundred, postpaid, or, in larger lots, by express at purchaser’s ex- 
pense, per 500, $1.75; per 1,000, $2.50; cash to accompany order in all cases. 
RULES AND REGULATIONS CONCERNING COTTON SEED. 
RULE 1. For the purpose of preventing the introduction of the Mexican cotton 
boll weevil into the Territory of Oklahoma from the State of Texas, where the 
same is now known to exist, a rigid quarantine is hereby declared against the 
following counties in the State of Texas, to wit, Anderson, Angelina, Aransas, 
Atascosa, Austin, Bastrop, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Bowie, Brazos, 
Brazoria, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Calhoun, Cameron, Camp, Cass, 
Chambers, Cherokee, Collin, Colorado, Comai, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Dallas, 
Delta, Denton, Dewitt, Duval, Eastland, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Fayette, 
Fort Bend, Franklin, Freestone, Galveston, Gillespie, Goliad, Gonzales, Grayson, 
Gregg, Grimes, Guadalupe, Hamilton, Hardin, Harris, Harrison, Hays, Hender- 
son, Hidalgo, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Houston, Hunt, Jack, Jackson, Jasper, 
Jefferson, Johnson, Karnes, Kaufman, Kent, Lamar, Lampasas, Lavaca, Lee, 
Leon, Liberty, Limestone, Live Oak, Llano, Madison, Matagorda, Marion, 
McLennan, McMullen, Milam, Mills, Montgomery, Morris, Nacogdoches, Navarro, 
Nueces, Newton, Orange, Palo Pinto, Panola, Parker, Polk, Rains, Red River, 
Refugio, Robertson, Rockwell, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, San 
Patricio, San Saba, Shelby, Smith, Somervell, Starr, Stephens, Tarrant, Titus, 
Travis, Trinity, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt, Victoria, Waller, Walker, Washington, 
Wharton, Williamson, Wilson, Wise, Wood, and also against the following 
parishes in Louisiana, Sabine, Vernon, Calcasieu, and De Soto, as well as 
against all other counties of Texas or parishes of Louisiana where the said 
Mexican boll weevil may be known to exist; and in order to prevent the intro- 
Cuction into the Territory of Oklahoma of the said Mexican boll weevil it is 
hereby declared : 
RULE 2. That no cotton seed, cotton-seed hulls, seed cotton, and cotton-seed 
sacks (which have been used), cotton pickers’ sacks, corn in the shuck, unsacked 
corn, unsacked oats, unsacked wheat, unsacked oats, and unsacked cowpeas shall 
