142 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
Sec. 2. In case the agent of the said director shall find present on any nursery 
premises, or packing ground, or in any cellar or building used for the storage 
ef nursery stock, or on any fruit or garden plantation any of the aforesaid 
San Jose scale or other injurious insects and fungus diseases he shall notify the 
owner, or the person haying charge of such premises for the owner, in writing, 
‘to that effect, and if such owner, after receiving such notice, shall ship or 
deliver any trees, vines, shrubs. or plants affected by such San Jose scale or 
other injurious insects and fungus diseases he shall be subject to the payment 
of a penalty or forfeiture as hereinafter provided. 
Sec. 3. Whenever any trees, shrubs, plants, or vines are shipped into this 
State from another State, country, or province without a certificate plainly 
fixed on the outside of the package, box, or car containing the same, showing 
that the contents had been inspected by a duly appointed State or Government 
officer, and that they appear free from San Jose scale and other injuricus 
insects and fungus diseases, the fact must be promptly reported to the said 
director by the railway. express, or steamboat company or other persons car- 
rying the same, with the statement of the source whence such articles came, 
end the party to whom they are addressed; and any railway, steamboat, or 
express company or person who shall violate the provisions of this section shall 
be subject to the payment of a penalty or forfeiture as hereinafter provided. 
Sec. 4. Any person growing or offering for sale in this State any nursery 
stock that is known to be infected with San Jose scale or other injurious 
insects and fungus diseases shall, upon demand of the said director, furnish 
within twenty days a list of all persons. as far as to him known, to whom he 
has sold or delivered any such stock, together with the post-office address of 
each of such persons, so far as to him known; such information shall be pre- 
served and be for the sole use of the said director and his agent in carrying 
cut the provisions of this act. And any person violating the provisions of this 
section shall be liable to the payment of a penalty or forfeiture as hereinafter 
provided. — ; 
Sec. 5. The said director shall cause to be issued to the owner of any nursery 
in this State, after the nursery stock therein has been properly inspected and 
found to be apparently free from San Jose scale or other injurious insects and 
fungus diseases, an official certificate to that effect. good for a period not to 
exceed one year, upon a payment to the said director the sum of five dollars 
for each ten acres of land owned or leased by such nurseryman in this State 
that is devoted wholly or in part to nursery stock, grown for sale purposes, and 
such owner may apply to said director for inspection of his premises for the 
purposes of securing such certificate, and the said director shall cause such. 
inspection to be made within three months after receiving the application, 
unless such inspection shall be delayed by winter weather, but no such certifi- 
eate shall be issued covering only a part of the nursery stock owned by one 
person, nor to cover nursery stock received after such inspection was made; 
and any such certificate may be cancelled by the said director upon the dis- 
covery in such nursery of the San Jose scale or other injurious insects and fun- 
gus diseases. 
Sec. 6. Any nurseryman holding a valid certificate, issued as prescribed in 
section 5 of this act, may apply to the said director for official labels or tags. 
for which the said director may charge a sum not to exceed thirty cents per 
~ hundred, which labels or tags shall certify that the packages or bundles of 
nursery stock to which they are attached are from nursery stock that has been 
officially inspected and found apparently free from San Jose scale or other 
injurious insects and fungus diseases; but no such tags or labels shall be used 
