154 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
duties as hereinafter provided. It shall be the duty of the said board to appoint 
a competent person as State entomologist and plant patholegist, hereinafter called 
State entomologist, and such assistants as may be necessary, who shall, acting 
under the authority of the said board, be charged with and perform such duties 
as are hereinafter specified. The board of crop pest commissioners shall from 
time to time, after due consideration, prepare a list of such dangerously inju- 
rious insect pest and diseases of plants as may properly, within its judgment 
and the judgment of the State entomologist, be controlled or eradicated, and 
they shall cause such list to be published, along with particular specification 
as to the nature and appearance of and the manner in which the said pests are 
generally disseminated. The board of crop pest commissioners shall at the 
Same time provide rules and regulations under which the State entomologist 
shall proceed to investigate, control, eradicate, and prevent the dissemination 
of the said pests as far as may be possible, and these rules and regulations shali 
have the full force and effect of law so far as they conform to this act and the 
general laws of this State and of the United States; and any person, firm, or 
corporation who fails or refuses to comply with the order or directions issued 
in writing, under regulations provided by the board of crop pest commis- 
sioners, Shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of not less than ten 
($10.00) nor more than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars for each such failure or — 
refusal: Provided, That all prosecution under this act shall be by indictment, 
presentment, or information in the circuit court of the county or corporation 
court of the city in which the person, firm, or corporation proceeded against is 
then resident. 
Src. 2. The board of crop pest commissioners shail have power ta provide 
quarantine rules and regulations concerning the sale and transportation of all 
plants or parts of plants, commonly known as nursery stock, within the State. 
They shall also have power to provide like rules and regulations in regard to 
all plants or parts of plants, commonly known as nursery stock, entering this 
State from without, and these rules and regulations shall be enforced by the 
State entomologist or his duly authorized assistants. 
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of this board to provide for the annual inspection 
of all nursery stock grown within the State prior to October first of each year, 
by the State entomologist or his assistants, who shall issue a certificate of free: 
dom from insect pests and plant diseases to the owners of all nurseries found 
entitled to the same, and they shall further provide regulations under which 
nursery stock brought into the State may be sold under the above-provided 
certificates, and in accordance with the further provisions of this act. It 
shall be unlawful after the promulgation of the rules and regulations provided - 
for in this act for any person, persons, corporation, or Common carriers to trans- 
port by land or water plants or parts of plants, commonly known as nursery 
stock, in violation of the same, and every such offence shall constitute a mis- 
demeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, the person, persons, firm, or corpora- 
tion, or common carrier so convicted shall be fined in the sum of not less 
than fifty ($50) dollars nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars for each 
and every violation of this act. 
Sec. 4. The State entomologist or any of his assistants, or a local inspector 
as hereinafter provided for, shall have power under the rules and regulations of 
said board to determine the nature and method of the treatment to which any 
infested plants shall be subjected, and he shall report his findings in print or 
writing, giving reasons therefor, to the owner of the infested plants, his agents 
or tenants, and a copy of such report shall be submitted to said board, and there 
shall accompany each and every such report specific directions as to the treat- 
