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and may at any subsequent meeting extend or amend such list. The commission 
shall also publish methods for exterminating such pests as they may deem capable of 
being economically exterminated within the boundaries of the State, and for repress- 
ing such as can not be economically exterminated, and for preventing the spread of 
such pests within the State. They may also adopt regulations, not inconsistent 
with the laws and constitution of this State and the United States, for preventing 
‘the introduction of dangerous crop pests from without the State, and for governing 
common carriers in transporting plants liable to harbor such pests to and from the 
State, and such regulations shall have the force of laws. 
Src. 3. No person, firm, or corporation shall, knowingly and wilfully, keep upon his 
or their premises any plant infested by any dangerous crop pest listed and published 
as such by the said commission, or permit dangerous weed pestis to mature seed or 
otherwise multiply upon their land except under such regulations as the commission 
may prescribe. Everysuch infested plant and premises are hereby declared a public 
nuisance. The owner of such plants or premises shall, when notitied to do so by the 
commission, take such measure as may be prescribed to eradicate such pests, and if 
such action is not taken, or is improperly executed within 10 days after being so 
notified, the commission shall cause said premises to be freed from such pests by the 
best available method, and the cost of such work shali be a lien against such prem- 
ises, and may be recovered, together with cost of action, before any court in the State 
having competent jurisdiction. Said notice shall be written, and mailed to the 
usual or known address, or left at the ordinary place of business of said owner or his 
agent. Nodamage shall be awarded the owner of such premises for entering thereon 
and destroying or otherwise treating any infested plant or crop, when done by the 
order of the commission. 
Sec. 4. When said commission has reason to suspect that any pest listed by them 
as dangerous exists in any county in the State, they shall cause such suspicion to be 
verified by a person competent to determine the specific identity of such pests of 
crops, and if such suspicion prove founded upon fact, shall further appoint, for a 
designated time and duty,a competent person their agent to inspect such infested 
premises, and to take such measures for treating the same as the commission may 
direct. Any duly authorized agent of the commission shall have authority to enter 
upon and inspect any premises between the hours of sunrise and sunset during every 
working day of the year. Any one who shall seek to prevent such inspection, or 
who shall otherwise interfere with any agent of the commission while in perform- 
ance of his duties, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $5 nor more than $50 
for each offense, or may be imprisoned for not less than 10 nor more than 30 days. 
Sec. 5. For the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act the sum of $500 
per annum, or so much thereof as is necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any 
funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and shall be paid by the State 
treasurer upon properly authenticated vouchers signed by the chairman of the 
commission, 
Sec. 6, The said commission shall report to the governor for transmission to the 
next general assembly its acts and disbursements under the provisions of this act. 
Such a report, together with all such circulars as may be issued by the said-commis- 
sion for the purposes of this act, shall be printed in editions of 1,000 copies by the 
public printer and be paid for as other public printing. 
Sec. 7. All laws and clauses of laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. 
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect from and after its ratification. 
Ratified March 5, 1897. 
Copy of a circular (No. 7) issued bv the North Carolina commission August 31, 1897, te common car- 
riers in that State. 
_ To all failroad, Express, and Steamship Companies, and Common Carriers doing busi- 
ness in North Carolina: You are hereby notified, by virtue of chapter 264 of the acts 
of the general assembly of 1897, entitled, “An act to prevent the introduction and 
