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Sec. 3. Said board shall meet on March 15, 1897, when it shall elect a president 
and a secretary from its number, who shall hold their offices during the pleasure of 
the board. The secretary shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by the 
board, and shall receive such compensation as the board may establish, not exceed- 
ing two hundred and fifty dollars per annum. Said board shall meet annually at 
such times and at such places as it shall be determined. . 
Src. 4. Said board shall at its first meeting divide the State into not more than 
ten districts, and shall appoint a ‘‘ State horticultural inspector ”:for each district so 
established. The persons so appointed shall be especially qualified for the position 
by reason of practical knowledge of horticulture and the pests incident thereto. 
Their jurisdiction shall be limited to their respective districts. Said inspectors 
shall hold their offices during the pleasure of said board, and shall be furnished with 
all necessary stationery and blanks by said board. Said board shall make an esti- 
mate of the amount of money available for each of said districts each year, and no 
inspector shall incur any expense of any kind under this act in excess of said esti- 
mate furnished him by said State board. The aggregate sum of all the estimates 
furnished to the various district inspectors for any year must in no case exceed the 
appropriation available for carrying out this act for such year. 
Sec. 5. Each inspector so appointed shall receive as compensation for his services 
as such inspector the sum of five dollars per day for each day actually and neces- 
sarily employed in the discharge of his duties as prescribed in this act. Such com- 
pensation shall be paid out of the general fund of the State, upon warrants duly 
drawn by the State auditor, only after the bills presented for such service shall have 
been audited and approved by the secretary and a majority of the members of said 
board and audited as other bills against the State of Idaho. 
Src. 6. It shall be the duty of said State inspectors, either upon their own motion 
or upon the complaint of interested parties, to enter and make, or cause to be made, 
inspections of any field, rights of way of irrigation canals or railways, public high- 
ways, orchard, nursery, fruit-packing houses, storeroom, salesroom, depot, or other 
place where fruits are grown or stored, and of fruits, trees, plants, vines, or other 
horticultural material within the State, supposed to be or liable to be infested with 
fruit pests, or with their eggs, or larve, or infested with contagious disease injurious 
to fruits, plants, trees, or vines, as hereinafter provided. 
The inspector shall require such person or persons to eradicate or destroy such 
injurious pests or other insects or their eggs or larvze within a reasonable time, to be 
specified; said notice shall be served on said person or persons, or either of them, 
owning or having in charge such infésted place, orchard, nursery, trees, plants, 
vines, fruit, or articles as visited by the inspector, or it may be served in the same 
manner as the summons ina civil action. If the owner or owners, or the person or 
persons in charge or possession of any orchard or nursery, or trees or places, or hor- 
ticultural articles infested with insects or any of them, or their larve or eggs, after 
having been notified as above to destroy the same, shall fail, neglect, or refuse to 
do, then any and all such places, public highways, orchards, nurseries, trees, plants, 
vines, fruit, or articles thus infested are adjudged and declared to be a public nui- 
sance, and shall be proceeded against as such; and whenever any such nuisance shall 
exist at any place in the State, or on the preperty of any nonresident, or on any 
highway as aforesaid, or on any property the owner or owners of which can not be 
found within the State, or on any property where notice has been served as aforesaid 
and where the owner or those in possession shall refuse or neglect to abate such 
nuisance within the time specified, it shall be the duty of the inspector within the 
county or district wherein the nuisance is to be abated, and he is hereby empowered 
to cause said nuisance to be abated at once by eradicating or destroying all said 
pests or their eggs or larvie; or by disinfecting or destroying all fruit, vines, plants, 
or other articles upon which any of said fungus diseases, pests, or their eggs or larve 
may be found. The expense of such proceedings shall be paid out of the general 
fund of the State in the same manner as above set forth for paying such inspectors. 
