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of April and October of each year, and as much oftener as it may deem expedient, 
for the consultation on and for the adoption of those measures that will best promote 
the horticultural industry of the province; it may, but without expense to the 
province, select and appoint competent and qualified persons to lecture in each of the 
districts named in section 2 of this act for the purpose of encouraging and improving 
practical horticulture and imparting instruction in the best methods of treating 
diseases of fruits and fruit trees, cleaning orchards, and exterminating orchard 
pests. 1894, c. 20, s. 5. 
6. The office of the board shall be located at the department of agriculture; it 
shall be kept open to the public, subject to the rules of the board, every day except 
Sundays and public holidays, and shall be in charge of the secretary during the 
absence of the board. 1894, c. 20, s. 6. 
7. For the purpose of preventing the spread of contagious diseases in orchards and 
gardens and among fruits and fruit trees, and for the prevention, treatment, cure, 
and extirpation of fruit pests and the diseases of fruits and fruit trees, and for the 
disinfection of grafts, scions, or orchard débris, empty fruit boxes or packages, and 
other suspected material or transportable articles dangerous to orchards, fruits, and 
fruit trees, said board may make regulations for the inspection and disinfection or 
destruction thereof, or of nonfruit-bearing trees or shrubs which may carry conta- 
gion, and also for requiring all cases of contagious diseases or fruit pests as aforesaid 
to be reported to the board, which regulations shall be circulated in printed form by 
the board among the fruit growers and fruit dealers of the Province, and shall be 
published in the British Columbia Gazette, and, at the discretion of the board, in 
papers of general circulation in the Province, and shall be posted in three conspicu- 
ous places in each district, one of which shall be a court-house therein; and every 
such regulation, when published in the British Columbia Gazette, shall, so far as the 
same shall not have been in like manner repealed or varied, be deemed to be and 
have the force of law, and be so recognized in all courts in the Province. 
(2) The power to make regulations for inspection shall include the power to estab- 
lish and vary places and quarantine stations where such inspection shall be carried 
out, and to make regulations in regard to the forwarding thereto and detention 
thereat of articles requiring inspection. 
(a) In and by any such regulations the board may fix and impose any fine or pen- 
alty for the enforcement of the provisions thereof, not exceeding in amount the fines 
and penalties hereinafter provided in case of the evasion of any of the provisions of 
this act, and may fix a scale of fees to be taken for inspection, or other services under 
the regulations, by officers carrying out the same, from the owners or persons in pos- 
session of any premises or property. 
(6) All fines and penalties imposed or fees fixed by any such regulations may be 
recovered, with costs, in accordance with the provisions of the ‘‘summary convic- 
tions act,” and when collected shall be paid over to the treasurer of the board for 
the purposes of this act. 1894, c. 20,8. 7; 1895, c. 25, s. 3. 
8. All constables or other peace officers shall, when called upon by any member of 
the board, or any authorized agent thereof, aid and assist such member or agent in 
carrying out the provisions of this act. 1895, c. 25, s. 4. 
9. The lieutenant governor in council shall appoint from the number of the board, 
or from without their number, to hold office at the pleasure of the lieutenant gov- . 
ernor in council, a competent person especially qualified by practical experience in 
horticulture, who shall be knownas “inspector of fruit pests.” It shall be the duty 
of said inspector to visit the horticultural districts of the Province to see that all 
the regulations of said board be made known to the people of the Province, and to 
enforce this act and the said regulations in the manner therein or in this act pre- 
scribed. The inspector shall, from time to time, and whenever required by said 
board, report to it such information as he may secure from observation, experience, 
and otherwise, as to the best method of diminishing and eradicating fruit pests and 
