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Src. 14. For the extirpation of serious, noncurable tree diseases, such as 
pear blight, crown gall, peach yellows, peach rosette, upon discovery of said 
diseases the county fruit-tree inspector shall notify the owner or owners, per- 
son or persons in charge or possession of said trees or shrubs, of such fact, and 
shall require such persons to extirpate the said disease by destroying the affected 
trees or shrubs by burning within a certain time, to be specified in said notice, 
caid notice to be served upon the person or persons owning or having charge 
of such infected trees as aforesaid by any inspector, or they may be served the 
same as a summons in a civil action. If the owner or owners, person or per- 
sons in charge or possession of said trees or shrubs, after having been notified 
as above by said inspector to destroy the same as directed, shall fail, neglect, or 
vefuse so to do, they shall be deemed guilty of maintaining a public nuisance, and 
the case shall be reported to the county attorney, who shall file a complaint, and 
it shall be speedily adjudicated; and if charges are found correct the court 
shall order the same destroyed or removed, the costs to be paid within ten days 
by the owner or person in charge; if not, it shall be paid by the county, and 
it shall be collected by the county attorney, with costs, and paid into the county 
treasury. 
Sec. 15. The county inspector shall make monthly reports to the county com- 
missioners and to the secretary of the State board of horticulture on forms pre- 
scribed by the said board. Said reports shall embrace the labors of the county 
inspector and his deputies for the month and statistics showing the general con- 
dition of horticulture within the county, together with such statement of facts 
and recommendations as he may deem useful to the horticultural interests of 
the county. The secretary of the State board shall make a biennial report to 
the secretary of state the first day of December preceding the meeting of the 
State legislature, and the secretary of state shall cause 5,000 copies of the same 
to be published in a pamphlet or book form for distribution as other State 
publications. 
Sec. 16. It shall be the duty of every owner, possessor, or occupier of any 
orchards, nursery, garden lot, cr land where fruit trees are grown within this 
State to remove from said land and destroy by burning all diseased or decayed 
branches of fruit trees affected with pear blight and to burn and destroy all dead 
trees and trees affected with peach rosette or peach yellows. 
Sec. 17. It shall not be lawful for any nurseryman, corporation, or private 
individual to import into this State or to ship in the State any trees, shrubs, or 
vines, unless the same are properly certified to by a professor of entomology 
of a Government experiment station, or an officer of a State board of horticul- 
ture or a regular examiner and appointed county inspector, operating in the 
regular discharge of their duties, as having been fumigated or disinfected by 
hydrocyanic acid gas before shipment. Importations of trees or shrubs unac- 
companied by such certificate of fumigation shall be held in quarantine at 
owner’s risk until so fumigated, at the cost of the importer. Said fumigation 
shall be made to the satisfaction of the county fruit-tree inspector or of the 
member for that district of the State board of horticulture. 
Sec. 18. It shall be the duty of any and all owners of any nursery or nurseries 
or nursery stock to disinfect by the use of hydrocyanic gas all their nursery 
stock for the destruction of insects or diseases injurious to fruit trees or shrubs 
before removing the same, or any of it, from their premises for sale, gift, dis- 
tribution, or transportation. 
Sec. 19. The State board of horticulture shall have power to authorize the 
holding of State horticultural exhibitions, and shall determine the time and 
place for holding said exhibitions, with power to arrange for premiums and 
