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material or fruits, fruit boxes, baskets, wrappings, portable fruit stands by 
burning the same. If an appeal be taken, the inspector shall, after twenty-four 
hours’ notice take immediate possession of such movable property and safely 
keep them until the appeal be decided. If the decision of the commissioners 
be in favor of the appellant, the property shall be returned to him: on an 
adverse decision the property must be destroyed by the inspector. All appeals 
from the action or demand of the county inspector shall be taken to the State 
commissioner of horticulture. That no county fruit inspector shall act as solic- 
itor or agent for the sale or distribution of any nursery stock, supplies, or 
machinery for use in orchards, nor engage in the purchase or marking of fruit 
from any orchard save his own. When satisfactory evidence that any county 
fruit inspector has violated the provisions of this section, the horticultural 
commissioner shall remove such inspector and report the removal to the county 
commissioners of his (the inspector’s) county. 
Src. 16. The said commissioner of horticulture shall be allowed seven Huneiped 
dollars ($700) per annum for the employment of one office clerk, who shall be 
continually in the office of the commissioner during normal office hours, and 
whose salary shall be paid monthly. 
Sec. 17. There shall be kept and maintained in the office of the commissioner 
in the city of Tacoma an exhibit of the fruits of the State of Washington, and 
for the maintenance of such exhibit an annual appropriation of three hundred 
doliars ($300) per annum is hereby made, to be paid out upon warrants drawn 
by the State auditor upon the presentation of proper vouchers. 
Sec. 18. An annual “inspector’s institute” shall be held during the month 
of January at the agricultural college at Pullman. The commissioner of 
horticulture shall fix the date of convening of such institute and by written 
notices direct the attendance of all county inspectors. The commissioner shall 
preside over and formulate the proceedings of the institute, which shall con- 
tinue for four days. As the purpose of these institutes is improvement and 
conference and study of insects, of experimentation by the scientist of the col- 
lege along entomologist and horticultural lines, it is required that all county in- 
spectors shall attend such institute meetings unless prevented by illness. Fail- 
ure to attend on the part of any inspector shall work a forfeiture of his office, 
and it shall be the duty of the commissioner to inform county commissioners of 
the absence of their inspectors. Inspectors attending institutes shall be allowed 
their actual traveling expenses and hotel bills on vouchers endorsed by the 
commissioner or oneeaere of institute, said expenses to be paid by the respective 
counties. 
Src. 19. Any person offering any hindrance to the carrying out of this act 
or in any manner preventing or hindering any inspection herein provided for 
shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than 
two hundred dollars, together with the costs. 
Sec. 20. [Refers to appropriation. ] 
Sec. 21. A certain act approved March 17, 1897, and entitled ‘‘An act to pro- 
mote and protect the fruit-growing and horticultural interests of the State of 
Washington, to provide for the appointment of commissioner of horticulture 
and to repeal certain laws in conflict therewith,” and all other laws or parts of 
laws inconsistent with or in conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby 
repealed. 
Src. 22. An emergency exists, and this act shall take effect and be in force 
from and after its approval by the governor. 
