PROPOSED STATE LEGISLATION AGAINST THE SAN JOSE SCALE 
AND FOUL BROOD. 
MINNESOTA. 
PROPOSED LAW AGAINST THE SAN JOSE SCALE. 
A BILu to prevent the introduction or spread of San Jose Seale. 
Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Minnesota: 
SECTION 1. The governor shall appoint one of the members of the Minnesota State 
Agricultural Experiment Station staff, who shall be known as the inspector of nurs- 
eries and orchards, who shall hold office during the term of two years, and whose 
duty it shall be to inspect any and all nurseries and orchards in the State of Minne- 
sota as to whether they are infested by the San Jose scale, and, if upon such inspec- 
tion, such nurseries and orchards be found free from said insects, to give to the owner of 
such nurseries and orchards a certificate to that effect, and he shall file a duplicate 
certificate with the Minnesota State Agricultural Experiment Station; and in case 
he shall find present in any such nursery or orchard any such insects, he shall notify 
the owner thereof in writing and shall direct him to use such means as will exter- 
minate such insects, and the owner of such nursery or orchard shall not ship or 
deliver any trees, vines, shrubs, or plants until he has secured from said inspector a 
certificate as aforesaid. 
Sec. 2. The owner of such nursery or orchard, trees, vines, shrubs, or plants shall 
within the time specified in such notice take such steps for the destruction of such 
insects as will exterminate the same, and he shall not ship or deliver any such trees, 
vines, shrubs, or plants affected with such insects under the penalty of a fine of one 
dollar for every tree, vine, plant, or shrub so affected when shipped or delivered 
from such nursery, which fine shall be collected by suit by the prosecuting attorney 
of the county in which said nursery or orchard is located, one-half thereof to go to 
the informer and the balance to be paid to said Minnesota State Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station. 
Src. 3. Whenever it shall happen that the State inspector of nurseries and 
orchards shall give the notice heretofore required to the owner of a nursery or 
orchard for the destruction of these insects and the said owner shall fail or neglect 
to take the measures necessary for the destruction thereof within the time men- 
tioned in the notice given him, it shall be the duty of the State inspector of nurs- 
eries and orchards to have the proper remedies applied to such nursery or orchard 
for the destruction of such insects, and he shall employ all necessary assistance and 
may enter the premises of said owner of such nursery or orchard for the purpose of 
treating and exterminating such insects; and the owner of such nursery or orchard 
shall be liable for the cost of such proceeding, for the services of the inspector at a 
rate per diem to be fixed by the Minnesota State Agricultural Experiment Station, 
not to exceed five dollars per day, and for such number of days as said State inspector 
shall determine, which said charge must be paid before the delivery of the certificate 
mentioned in section one of this act. 
Src. 4. Whenever any trees, plants, or vines are shipped into this State from 
another State every package thereof shall be plainly labeled on the outside with the 
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