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dissemination of dangerous insects, fungous, and weed pests of crops,” which act 
empowers this commission to prescribe rules for governing the transportation within 
the State of trees, shrubs, and vines, liable to harbor and disseminate dangerous 
insect pests, that the annexed rules have been adopted and will be enforced on and 
after the 1st day of July, 1897. Inasmuch as the interests of all transportation com- 
panies doing business in North Carolina are bound up with the interests and general 
prosperity of the Commonwealth, and that prosperity is seriously menaced by the 
introduction from other States and countries of destructive scale insects and other 
similar pests, it 1s hoped and believed that all companies will themselves cheerfully 
observe these rules, and endeavor by all the means in their power to uphold the com- 
mission in the work devolving upon it. They wil] thus serve to protect fruit grow- 
ing along their lines, and the future business involved. It is not the intention or 
desire of the commission to interfere unnecessarily with traffic in nursery stock, nor 
to prevent the bringing of such freight into the State. It only desires to insure the 
freedom of such stock from destructive parasites. The rules adopted by the com- 
mission are reasonable and not onerous. If faithfully observed, the rules will for 
the future prevent the dissemination of these dangerous pests in our State. The 
rules below will be strictly enforced as far as it lies in the power of the commission: 
Rute 1. No transportation company or common carrier shall deliver to any con- 
signee at any station point located in North Carolina any package, bale, box, or 
single specimen of any tree, shrub, or woody vine, nor accept such for transporta- 
tion from any point in the State, unless each separate package, bale, box, or single 
specimem has attached a label stating the name and address of the grower, preceded 
by the words ‘‘Grown by.” Said plants or packages of plants shall also have affixed 
a certificate from this commission that the nursery wherein the plants were grown 
had been examined and found free from San Jose scale and all other dangerous 
insects. The date of the certificate must not be more than six months from date of 
shipment of such stock. Certificates from others will not be recognized. The 
necessity for certifying does not extend to seeds, roots, or herbaceous plants, nor to 
straw berry plants. 
RULE 2. If by any oversight, accident, negligence, or otherwise any invoice of 
uncertified trees, shrubs, or woody vines is received at any station, depot, wharf, or 
warehouse within this State such stock must not be delivered or removed from the 
place where the same was first stored, but shall within 48 hours after receipt be sent 
out of the State, if brought from without the State, or, if shipment originated 
within the State, the plants, with their containing cases and packing, shall be 
destroyed by fire; such shipment being held unlawful by this commission. No 
person other than a duly authorized agent of this commission shall be permitted to 
open or inspect such plants further than may be necessary to determine the absence 
of a label and certificate as required by law. Transportation companies will imme- 
diately report to the commission any violation of this regulation, together with the 
action of the company. Said report is to include the name and address of the 
shipper and of the consignee. 
RuLE 3. Any transportation company or common carrier or other person wilfully 
disregarding the said law and the above rules prescribed in pursuance thereof will 
be guilty of a nuisance and liable to action for damages, punishable with fine or 
imprisonment. 
(Signed) i 
, Chairman. 
Copy of a circular (No. 8) issued by the North Carolina commission August 31, 1897, to nurserymen 
and others. 
To Nurserymen and Dealers who Ship Nursery Stock into North Carolina: Your atten- 
tion is called to the inclosed copy of circular No.7 of this commission, relating to 
the shipment of nursery stock into North Carolina. You will notice that there is a 
modification in the regulations previously adopted, in that each package, etc., 
shipped into the State must have the certificate of this commission attached thereto, 
