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Src. 4. The inspector shall leave a printed notice with or mail to every owner, 
occupant, or person in charge of any orchard, vineyard, or nursery, produce dealer, 
storage or commission merchant, or any person handling fruit, on whose premises 
he shall find any kind of fruit-destroying insects, their larve or their pup, com- 
manding them to disinfect their trees, vines, storerooms, and premises in conformity 
with the proclamation of the probate judge. Such notice must be signed by the 
inspector, who shall note in the stub of said notice the name of the person so notified 
and the date on which such notice was served or duly mailed to him. 
Sec. 5. The county court is hereby authorized and required to provide for the 
publication of the proclamation required by section 3, and to formulate such rules 
and regulations as it may deem proper, to govern the actions of the fruit-tree 
inspector in his duties, and to give such public notice as it may deem proper in 
relation to the disinfecting of storerooms, warehouses, and sales rooms where fruits 
in either a green or dried state may be stored, handled, or offered for sale. 
SEc. 6. Any owner, occupant, or person in charge of land on which fruit trees are 
growing who has been notified as provided for in section 4 of this act to disinfect 
his trees or vines, who shall fail or neglect, without sufficient cause, to comply with 
_ said notice, shall, after conviction in a court having jurisdiction, be deemed guilty 
_ of a misdemeanor. 
| Sec. 7. When the owner, occupant, or person in charge of any premises shall 
have been convicted on account of neglect or failure to carry out the provisions of 
section 6 of this act, and he still refuses to comply therewith, all infested trees or 
vines on his premises may be disinfected at the expense of the owner or occupant of 
said premises. 
Sec. 8. Any person who fails to disinfect his storeroom, warehouse, or sales room 
as directed by the fruit-tree inspector shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
! Sec. 9. All persous importing or exporting trees in any county must get the 
_ inspector’s certificate that such trees are free from fruit-destroying insects, their 
_ larve or their pupz, and a failure or neglect so to do shall sabject them to the pen- 
alties provided for in section 8 of this act. 
Src. 10. The compensation of the fruit-tree inspector shall be fixed by the county 
court and paid out of the county treasury; and all fines collected under the pro- 
visions of this act shall be paid into the county treasury. 
Sec. 11. This act shall take effect from and after its approval. 
Approved March 7, 1894. 
VIRGINIA. 
An Act To amend and reenact an act entitled an act to eradicate the San Jose or pernicious scale, 
a disease affecting fruit trees, and to prevent its spread, approved March 5, 1896. 
[Approved February 28, 1898.] 
; Whereas the fruit industry in Virginia is threatened with serious and irreparable 
; damage by an insect known as the San Jose or pernicious scale, now present in some 
: parts of the State: Therefore, . 
; Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia: 
1. That an act entitled “An act to eradicate the San Jose or pernicious seale, a 
disease affecting fruit trees, and to prevent its spread, approved March fifth, eighteen 
hundred and ninety-six,” be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows: 
Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia: 
SECTION 1. That the board of control of the State agricultural experiment station 
be, and is, hereby empowered and directed to take immediate action to suppress and 
eradicate this insect. 
Src. 2. The said board is hereby authorized and required to designate a member 
of the scientific staff of the agricultural experiment station to act as inspector 
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