20 
LOUISIANA. 
LAWS OF 1894. 
AN Act to prevent the introduction, propagation, or distribution in this State of any fruit trees or 
fruit growth affected with any infectious disease or infectious insects injurious to fruit growth, and 
to provide penalties for violation of same. 
SECTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to bring into this State any 
fruit trees or vines, shrubs, scions, cuttings, buds, grafts, fruit pits, or any kind of 
fruit growth affected with any infectious disease or insects injurious to the growth 
of fruit, or propagate the same, or offer the same for sale or in any way distribute or 
attempt to distribute the same in this State. 
Sec. 2. That all fruit trees, vines or shrubs, scions, cuttings, buds, grafts, or fruit 
pits, or any tree growth of any kind brought into this State or offered for sale or dis- 
tributed in this State, shall be properly labeled with the name of the owner, agent, 
shipper, or grower, and the locality where grown, and shall be subject to the inspec- 
tion of the entomologist of the State agricultural experiment station. 
Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the entomologist of the State agricultural 
experiment station, at the request of the director of such station, to visit any sec- 
tion of the State when such visit can be made without expense to the State, where 
there are diseased fruit trees or any tree growth infected with disease or insects 
injurious to tree growth, to examine and report on such diseased fruit, growth, or 
infected tree growth, and if such examinations prove the infected trees perniciously 
infected it shall be the duty of the owner, agent, or possessor of such diseased fruit 
trees or infected tree growth to at once disinfect or destroy the same. 
Sec. 4. That any willful neglect or violation of this act shall subject the offender 
to a fine of not less than $5, nor more than $100, or imprisonment in the parish or 
city jail of not less than one day nor more than three months, or both, at the dis- 
cretion of the court, and the provisions of this act shall be enforced by the district 
attorney in any court of competent jurisdiction on the complaint of any party in 
interest, and all moneys derived from the enforcement of the provisions of this act 
shall, after the payment of all fees allowed by law, be paid over to the State agricul- 
tural experiment station to carry out the inspection provided for by this act. 
Approved July 11, 1894. 
MARYLAND. 
CHAPTER 290.—Laws oF 1896. 
Aw Act to add to article 48 of the code of public general laws, title ‘‘inspections,” a new sub-title, to be 
known as ‘‘trees ana nursery stock,’’ and seven new sections thereunder, to be designated ‘‘ sec- 
tions 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, and 57,” providing for the examination of trees, plants, vines, and 
nursery stock, and to exterminate the San Jose scale, rosette, yellows, and other diseases and 
insects. 
SECTION 1. That there shall be added to article 48 of the code of public general 
laws, title ‘‘ inspections,” a new sub-title, to be known as ‘‘trees and nursery stock,”’ 
and seven new sections thereunder, to be designated “‘sections 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 
Die 
(51) The governor of Maryland shall, once in every two years, designate and 
appoint one of the professors at the Maryland Agricultural College State entomolo- 
gist, who shall serve without pay, other than that he may receive as professor at 
said college, but whose expenses shall be paid, as hereinafter provided, whose duty 
it shall be to inspect any and all nurseries in the State of Maryland, where any trees, 
plants, vines, or other nursery stock is grown, between the first day of each March 
and the first day of September next succeeding, and he shall notify, in writing, the 
