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PROPOSED NATIONAL LEGISLATION. 
The bill which immediately follows is one which was drafted by a 
national convention held in Washington Marck 5-6, 1897, for the sup- 
pression of insect pests and plant diseases by legislation. The con- 
vention was composed of delegates from State horticultural and 
agricultural societies, of prominent nurserymen, and of economic 
entomologists. 
Following this bill there are printed two sections which at the annual 
convention of the National Association of Nurserymen, held in St. 
Louis, in June, 1897, were adopted as substitutes for sections 1 and 2 of 
the Washington bill. 
Following this is printed the modified bill introduced into the House 
of Representatives by Hon. C. A. Barlow, of California, and which was 
submitted February 16, 1898, witb a favorable report by the Committee 
on Agriculture. 
BILL DRAFTED BY THE WASHINGTON CONVENTION. 
BILL RELATING TO INTERSTATE AND INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION AGAINST INSECT 
AND FUNGOUS PESTS. 
An AcT to provide for the inspection and treatment of trees, plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, scions, 
nursery stock, and fruit imported into the United States, and for the inspection and treatment of 
trees, plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, scions, and nursery stock grown within the United States which 
becomes a subject of interstate commerce. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress assembled : 
SECTION 1. That the Secretary of Agriculture be, and is hereby, authorized, at the 
expense of the owner or owners, to place and retain in quarantine all trees, plants, 
buds, cuttings, grafts, scions, nursery stock, and fruit imported into the United States 
at such ports as he may designate for such purposes and under such conditions as 
he may, by regulation, prescribe, and that he may appoint inspectors for the purpose 
of examining such trees, plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, scions, nursery stock, and 
fruit for the purpose of ascertaining whether they are affected by any dangerously 
injurious insect or disease, the importation of which will be prejudicial to the horti- 
cultural interests of the United States, and provide for the treatment of such when 
found necessary. 
Src. 2. That when such trees, plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, scions, nursery stock, 
and fruit shall be determined to be infested with any dangerously injurious insect 
or disease they shall be treated at the expense of the owner or owners in accordance 
with the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, or they shall be destroyed in 
case their condition is such as to warrant such destruction; but an appeal may be 
taken from the decision of the inspector to the Secretary of Agriculture if such 
appeal be taken within three days after such inspection, and the decision of the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall be final. 
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