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such certificate the governor may make the appointment. Before entering upon the 
discharge of his duties said commissioner shall take and subscribe an oath to sup- 
port the Constitution of the United States and the constitution and laws of the 
State of Washington and to faithfully discharge the duties of his office, which said 
oath, together with the aforesaid certificates, shall be filed with the secretary of 
state. Said commissioner shall keep his office at Tacoma, which shall be open to 
the public during normal office hours every day excepting Sunday and legal holi- 
days and days when he may be necessarily absent attending to official duties in 
other parts of his district. 
Sec. 2. The object for which said commissioner is appointed is to maintain and 
exercise a supervisory directory over the horticultural industries of the State, to 
enforce the laws relative to the importation, transfer, and sale of fruit, fruit trees, 
plants, or nursery stock within the State, and to give such instruction to fruit cul- 
turists regarding cultivation and the extermination of fruit pests as the nature of 
the case may demand. The official term of the commissioner of horticulture shall 
begin on the first day of April, 1897, and continue for four years, and until his successor 
is appointed and qualified. Said commissioner shall receive annually, in full consid- 
eration of his official services, the sum of $1,000, and for incidental expenses of his 
office, such as necessary traveling fare, stationery, and postage, the sum of $500, or 
so much thereof as shall be actually expended. Each of said sums shall be due and 
payable in monthly installments in warrants drawn by the State auditor on the 
State treasurer. 
Src. 3. Said commissioners may be removed from office at any time for cause, such 
as inefficiency, neglect of duty, or immoral conduct; but no removal from the office 
of commissioner of horticulture shall be made for political reasons. Vacancies 
occurring in the office of commissioner during a term shal] be filled by the governor 
making an appointment for the unexpired term, under rules and regulations as 
prescribed in section 1 of this act for full-term appointments. 
Sec. 4. Fruit culturists in any county in this State are hereby authorized and 
empowered to organize into a county horticultural society, and the better to pro- 
mote and protect the horticultural interests of the county, the society will nominate 
a qualified person for county inspector of fruits, trees, and plants, and of insect 
pests destructive to the fruit interests of the county. The nomination shall be 
made to the board of commissioners (of the county wherein said society is organ- 
ized), who are hereby authorized to appoint such person as county fruit inspector, 
deliver to him a certificate of his appointment, and mail a duplicate copy of such 
certificate to the said State commissioner of horticulture. Said county inspectors 
shall be entitled to a per diem of $2 for each day’s actual service, to be paid by the 
- county in which said inspector is appointed. 
Sec. 5. No person, firm, or corporation shall engage or continue in the business 
of selling within the State, or importing fruit trees, plants, or nursery stock into this 
State without first having obtained a license to carry on such business in this State, 
as in this act provided: Provided, That this section shall not apply to any person or 
persons who may from time to time sell or give away any fruit trees, plants, or nur- 
sery stock the growth of which shall be the result of his or their own industry, and 
where such sales are made without canvassing, soliciting, advertising, or the employ- 
ment of agents. 
Sec. 6. Any person, firm, or corporation may obtain a license to engage or con- 
tinue in the business of selling and importing fruit trees, plants, or nursery stock 
into this State by submitting his application therefor to the commissioner of horti- 
culture, together with a satisfactory bond in the sum of $1,000, to be approved by 
the said commissioner, conditioned that the principal and his or their agents will 
faithfully obey the provisions of this act and the laws of the State of Washington, 
and that the said principal will pay the cost of inspection and destruction of all 
infested nursery stock or other material or goods imported into or sold within such 
districts of this State by the said principal or his or their agent. Licenses under 
this act shall be for two years or less, at the discretion of the commissioner. 
