126 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
shall be the duty of the board or the member thereof in whose district said 
nuisance shall exist, or the secretary or county inspector under his or their 
directions, to cause such nuisance to be at once abated by eradicating or destroy- 
ing said insects or pests, or their eggs or larve, or by treating or disinfecting 
or destroying the infested or diseased articles. The expense thereof shall be a 
county charge, and the county court shall allow and pay the same out of the 
general fund of the county. Any and all sums so paid shall be and become a 
lien on the property and premises from which said nuisance shall have been 
removed or abated in pursuance of this act, and may be recovered by a suit 
in equity against such property or premises, which suit to foreclose such liens 
shall be brought in the circuit court of the county where the premises are 
situate by the district attorney in the name and for the benefit of the county 
making such payment or payments. 
The proceedings in such cases shall be governed by the same rules, as far as 
may be applicable, as suits to foreclose mechanics’ liens, and the property shall 
be sold under the order of the court and the proceeds applied in like manner. 
The board is hereby invested with the power to cause such nuisance to be abated 
in a Summary manner. 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
An Act to provide for the protection of trees, shrubs, vines, and plants against destruc- 
tive insects and diseases; providing for the enforcement of this act, the expenses con- 
nected therewith, and fixing penalties for its violation. 
SECTION 1. Be it enacted, &c., That no person shall knowingly or wilfully 
keep any tree, shrub, vine, or plant in any nursery, orchard, or public or private 
grounds in this Commonwealth, nor knowingly or willingly send out from such 
nursery any tree, shrub, vine, or plant affected with San Jose scale, or other 
insects or diseases, such as crown-gall, black-knot, or peach-yellows, destructive 
of such tree, vine, shrub, or plant. 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the secretary of agriculture, through the eco- 
nomic zoologist, or such other agent or agents as he may select, to cause an 
examination to be made, at least once each year, of each and every nursery in 
this State where trees, shrubs, vines, or plants are grown; and he may also, by 
himself or agent, make inspection of any orchard, or other grounds or place, in 
this State, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the trees, shrubs, vines, or 
plants therein kept are infested with San Jose scale or other insect pests, or dis- 
eases destructive of such trees, shrubs, vines, or plants. If, after such examina- - 
tion of any nursery, it be found that the said trees, shrubs, vines, or other 
plants, so examined, are apparently free in all respects from any such danger- 
ously injurious insects or diseases, the secretary of agriculture, or his duly 
authorized agent, or other person designated to make such examination, shall 
thereupon issue to the owner or proprietor of the said stock thus examined a 
certificate setting forth the fact of the examination and that the stock or trees 
se examined are apparently free from any and all such destructive insects and 
diseases. 
Sec. 3. Should any nurseryman, agent, dealer, or broker send out or deliver 
within the State trees, vines, shrubs, plants, buds, or cuttings. commonly known 
as nursery stock, and which are subject to the attacks of the insects and dis- 
eases disignated in this act, unless he has in his possession a copy of said certifi- 
cate, dated within the year thereof, or wrongfully be in possession of said cer- 
tificate, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be pun- 
ished in accordance with the provisions of section eight of this act. 
