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Src. 9. The State inspector of nurseries and orchards shall appoint such number 
of deputies as may be required, subject to the approval of the directors of the Minne- 
sota State Agricultural Experiment Station, and he shall render a full and complete 
report of his proceedings, acts, and expenditures under this act to the said directors 
of the Minnesota State Agricultural Experiment Station, who shall audit his accounts 
and may publish said report. 
Src. 10. All expenses incurred under the provisions of this act not otherwise 
provided for shall be paid out of the general fund of the State, and the State auditor 
shall draw his warrant for the same, and for this purpose the sum of twenty-five 
hundred ($2,500) dollars, or so much as may be necessary, is hereby annually appro- 
priated. 
Sec. 11. All prosecutions or suits under this act shall be made in the name of the 
State of Minnesota. 
Sec. 12. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after June 1, 1897. 
FLORIDA. 
(Introduced, but not passed, at legislative session of 1896-97. ] 
‘An Act for the control and extirpation of diseases and insects of horticultural and agricultural 
products of the State of Florida. 
Be it enacted, ete.: 
SECTION 1. A permanent commission to be known as the Florida State Commission 
for the control of diseases of horticultural and agricultural products is hereby cre- 
ated to consist of the commissioner of agriculture, ex officio, the botanist and ento- 
mologist of the State Experiment Station, ex officio, and one other person who is a 
horticulturist, who shall be appointed by the governor and shall hold office for a 
term of four years, or until his successor is appointed. The governor shall have 
power to fill all vacancies that may happen in the commission by granting commis- 
sions which shall expire when such vacancies are regularly filled. 
Src. 2. Said commission shall meet first within sixty days after the approval of 
this act, and thereafter annually, at the seat of government on the first Monday of 
February, and shall be in session for a period not exceeding ten days; and for such 
services each commissioner who is not a salaried officer of the State shall be entitled 
to be paid four dollars a day for each day’s attendance at the annual session, and 
mileage at the rate of five cents a mile for his time and expenses in traveling from 
his place of abode to the place of holding the session, and the same rate returning 
therefrom to the place of his abode, to be computed by the usual route of travel. 
Each commissioner who is a salaried officer of the State shall be entitled to his 
traveling expenses and necessary expenses while attending the meeting of the com- 
missioners. Said compensation and the necessary expenses of the commission for 
stationery, printing, and postage shall be paid by the State treasurer out of the 
moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, upon vouchers issued by the 
secretary of the commission and approved by the chairman. ~ 
Sec. 3. The governor shall, when necessary, assign a room at the State capitol for 
the use of the commission in which to hold its annual sessions. Two commissioners 
shall constitute a quorum. The commissioner of agriculture shall be chairman of 
the commission. The botanist and entomologist of the State experiment station 
shall be chief inspector, custodian of the records, and, when present, secretary of 
the commission. He shall be allowed to secure the services of a scientific assistant 
and office help for a sum not to exceed eight hundred dollars, to be paid by the State 
treasurer out of the treasury from moneys not otherwise appropriated, upon vouchers 
issued by the secretary of the commission and approved by the chairman. : 
Src. 4. Said commission, or a majority thereof, shall, during its first session, adopt 
rules and regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of injurious insects and 
