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box, bundle, or package of trees, shrubs, cuttings, vines, buibs, or roots shipped 
by parties residing without the limits of this State to any consignee at any 
station in this State unless each box, bundle, or package is plainly labeled with 
a certificate of inspection furnished by the official entomologist of the State in 
which said stock was grown and also with the official tag of this board herein 
provided for. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this section 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined 
in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. For the enforcement of this 
section the sheriff of each county in the State is hereby authorized and 
empowered, and it shall further be his duty, to seize such goods that do not 
bear the official tag of this board and hold the same until inspected and pro- 
nounced by the entomologist, whom he shall notify at once, to be free from the 
diseases and insects declared to be injurious by the said board. 
Sec. 13. When two or more reputable citizens of any county in this State 
notify the chairman of the State board of entomology that noxious insects or 
plant diseases exist in their county it shall be his duty to have the entomologist 
promptly investigate the matter and take such steps as authorized and pre- 
scribed in this act and by the State board of entomology. 
Sec. 14. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 
Approved the 23d day of February, A. D. 1903. 
RULES AND REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE STATE BOARD OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
1. The entomologist at Clemson College, who shall be known as State ento- 
mologist, shall direct the work required under this act. He shall inspect every 
nursery in the State before the first day of November of each year. All nursery- 
men and dealers of nursery stock residing within and without the State who do 
business within the limits of the State of South Carolina, must not sell, trans- 
port, or give away any nursery stock, unless the same is accompanied by a certi- 
ficate from the State board of entomology declaring the same to be apparently 
free from insects and plant diseases herein listed as dangerously injurious. All 
such certificates are invalid after the first day of June of each year and must be 
renewed before the first day of November of that year. When nursery premises 
are found to be infested, the certificate of freedom from injurious insects and 
plant diseases will be withheld until the instructions of the entomologist for the 
treatment of same have been obeyed. Infested orchards shall be treated when- 
ever discovered. The owners of infested nurseries or orchards shall pay all cost 
for such treatment, except the traveling and hotel expenses of the entomologist. 
The entomologist shall exercise all due diligence to see that the law is complied 
with, and he shall publish, from time to time, circulars and reports relating to 
the inspection work, and bulletins containing an account of the habits of and 
treatment for the injurious insects and plant diseases. 
In the office of the entomologist, there shall be kept, on file, a list of nursery- 
men and dealers of nursery stock, living within and without the State, and doing 
business within the State, and a list of localities within the State where the San 
Jose seale and other dangerously injurious insects and plant diseases have been 
found. 
All correspondence relating to the inspection, certification, and treatment of 
trees, plants, and all kinds of nursery stock should be addressed to the State 
entomologist, who shall also act as secretary to the State board of entomology. 
2. The following insects and plant diseases are declared by the State board of 
entomology to be dangerously injurious and the introduction of the same is 
