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answer or examination relating to the yellows, and do all in his power to promote a 

 correct knowledge among growers concerning this disease. He shall also keep an 

 accurate record of the work of the inspectors in the several counties, and furnish 

 annually, on or before the first day of December of each year, a condensed state- 

 ment of the work done by county inspectors, the progress of the disease, the effect 

 or uoneffect of this law in checking tlie spread of the same, and such other matters 

 of interest relating thereto as may be of importance. 



Sec. 10. Any person who shall fail or refuse to obey the order of an inspector to 

 destroy trees or fruit, as provided for in this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and on conviction thereof in a justice court shall be lined five dollars for each day 

 which has elapsed since the expiration of the oi'der of condemnation : Provided, That 

 no fine shall exceed twenty-five doUars for a first offense. In all cases where a term 

 of days is specified in this act Sunday shall not be reckoned in the count. 



Sec. 11. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association of persons, or cor- 

 poration, or their agents, to bring, ship, or consign into this State, for the purpose 

 of selling, or for any other purpose, any peach trees infected with a disease known 

 as peach yellows, or to sell the same so infected in this State. 



Sec. 12. Any person, association of persons, firm, or agent violating any provision 

 of section 11 of this act shall be fined for each offense fifty dollars. 



Sec. 13. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. 



Approved, March 4, 1890. 



I.A1¥S OF WASHINGTON. 



February 16, 1891, the State of Washington passed an act creating 

 a State board of horticulture, the following sections of which relate to 

 plant diseases :^ 



Sec. 4. The board may receive, manage, use, and hold donations and bequests of 

 money and property for promoting the objects of its formation. It shall meet on 

 the second Monday of April and October of each year, and as much oftener as it may 

 deem expedient, for the consultation on and for the adoption of those measures that 

 will best promote the horticultural industries of the State. It may, but without 

 expense to the State, select and appoint competent and qualified persons to lecture 

 in each of the districts named in section 1, for the purpose of encouraging and 

 improving practical horticulture, and imparting instructions in the best methods of 

 treating the diseases of fruits and fruit trees, cleansing orchards, and exterminating 

 orchard pests. 



Sec. 6. For the purpose of preventing the spread of contagious diseases among 

 fruit and fruit trees, and for the prevention, treatment, cure, and extirpation of fruit 

 pests and the diseases of fruits and frait trees, and for the disinfection of grafts, 

 scions, or orchard debris, empty fruit boxes or packages, or other suspected material 

 or transportable articles dangerous to orchards, fruits, and fruit trees, said board 

 may suggest regulations for the inspection and disinfection thereof, which regula- 

 tions shall be circulated in x^rinted form, by the board, among the fruit growers and 

 fruit dealers of the State, and shall be published at least ten days in two daily 

 papers of general circulation in the State, and shall be posted in three conspicuous 

 places in each county in the State, one of which shall be at the county court-house 

 thereof. 



Sec. 7. The said board shall elect from their own number or appoint from without 

 their number, to hold office at the pleasure of the board, a competent person espe- 

 cially qualified by practical experience in horticulture, who shall be known as 

 ^'inspector of fruit pests." It shall be the duty of said inspector to visit horticul- 

 tural districts of the State, to see that all the regulations of said board to prevent 

 1 Session Laws of the State of Washington, session of 1891. Olympia. 1891, pp, 13-17. 



