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inspection to be made of any orchards, nurseries, trees, plants, vegetables, vines, or 
any fruit packing house, storeroom, sales room, or any other place within their dis- 
tricts, and if found infested with any pests, diseases, or fungoas growths injurious 
to fruits, plants, vegetables, trees, or vines, or, with their eggs or larve, liable to 
spread to other places or localities, or such nature as to be a public danger, they 
shall notify the owner or owners, or persons in charge of or in possession of such 
articles, things, or places, that the same are so infested, and shall require said per- 
sons to eradicate or destroy said insects or pests, or their eggs or larvze, or to treat 
such contagious diseases within a certain time, to be specified in said notice. Said 
notices may be served upon the person or persons, or any of them, owning, having 
charge, or having possession of such infested place, article, or thing, by any member 
of the board, or by the secretary thereof, or by any person deputed by the said board, 
or any member or the secretary thereof, or by any person deputied by said board for 
that purpose, or they may be served in the same manner as a Summons in an action 
atlaw. Such notice shall contain directions for the application of some treatment 
approved by the commissioners for the eradication or destruction of said pests, or 
the eggs or larvie thereof, or the treatment of contagious diseases or fungous 
growths. Any and all such places, orchards, nurseries, trees, plants, shrubs, 
vegetables, vines, fruit, or articles thus infested are hereby declared to be a public 
nuisance; and whenever any such nuisance shall exist at any place in the State on 
the property of any owner or owners upon whom or upon the person in charge or 
possession of whose property notice has been served as aforesaid, and who shall have 
failed or refused to abate the same within the time specified in such notice, or on the 
property of any nonresident, or any property not in the possession of any person 
and the owner or owners of which can not be found by the resident member of the 
board or the secretary, after diligent search within the district, it shall be the duty 
of the board, or the members thereof in whose district said nuisance shall exist, or 
the secretary under his or their direction, to cause such nuisance to be at once 
abated, by eradicating or destroying said insects or pests, or their eggs, or larvie, or 
by treating or disinfecting the infested or diseased articles. The expense thereof 
shall be a county charge, and the county court shall allow and pay the same out of 
the general fund of the county. Any and all sums so paid shall be and become a 
lien on the property and premises from which said nuisance shall have been removed 
or abated, in pursuance of this act, and may be recovered by a suit in equity against 
such property or premises; which suit to foreclose such liens shall be brought in the 
circuit court of the county where the premises are situated, by the district attorney, 
in the name and for the benefit of the county making such payments. The proceed- 
ings in such cases shall be governed by the same rules, as far as may be applicable, 
as suits to foreclose mechanics’ liens, and the property shall be sold under the order 
of the court and the proceeds applied in like manner. ‘The board is hereby invested 
with the power to cause such nuisances to be abated in a summary manner. 
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Approved February 23, 1895. 
PENNSYLVANIA. 
LAWS OF 1897. 
AN AcT to prevent the spread of the contagious diseases known as yellows, black knot, peach rosette, 
and pear blight among peach, plum, cherry, prune, almond, apricot, nectarine, and pear trees, cr the 
fruit thereof, and providing measures for the eradication of the same, and applying the provisions 
of this act to ‘‘ San Jose scale,”’ when found on any vine, plant, shrub, or fruit tree. 
SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to keep any peach, almond, 
apricot, plum, cherry, nectarine, or pear tree infected with the contagious diseases 
known as yellows, black knot, peach rosette, or pear blight, or to offer for sale or 
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