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JLATTS OF BRITISH COI^VmBIA. 



AN ACT to consolidate and amend the acts respecting tlie provincial board of liorticulture (2l9t March, 

 1894), [Short title, "Hort. board act, 1894 "]i. 



The following' sections of tliis act relate to diseases of plants : 



Sec. 5. Tho "board shall receive, manage, use, and hold donations and beqnests 

 of money and property for promoting the ohjects of its formation; it shall meet in 

 the months of April and Octohcr of each year, and as much oftener as it may deem 

 expedient, for the cousnltation on and for the adoption of those measures that -will 

 best i)romote the horticultural industry of the Province ; it may, but without expense 

 to the Province, select and appoint competent and qualified persons to lecture in 

 each of tho districts named in section 2 of this act, for the purpose of encouraging 

 and improving practical horticulture, and imparting instruction in the best methods 

 of treating diseases of fruits and fruit trees, cleaning orchards, and exterminating 

 orchard jjests. 



Sec. 7. For the purpose of preventing the spread of contagious diseases ia 

 orchards and gardens and among fruits and fruit trees, and for the prevention, treat- 

 ment, cure, and extirpation of fruit pests and tho diseases of fruits and fruit trees, 

 and for the disinfection of grafts, scions, or orchard debris, empty fruit boxes or 

 packages, and other suspected material or transjjortable articles dangerous to or- 

 chards, fruits, and fruit trees, said board may make regulations for the inspection 

 and disinfection or destruction thereof, or of nonfruit-bearing trees or shrubs v^^hich 

 may carry contagion, and also for requiring all cases of contagious diseases or fruit 

 pests as aforesaid, to be reported to the board, which regulations shall be circulated 

 in printed form by the board among the fruit growers and fruit dealers of the Prov- 

 ince, and shall be published in the British Columbia Gazette, and, at the discretion 

 of the board, in papers of general circulation in the Province, and shall be posted 

 in three conspicuous places in each district, one of which shall be a court-house 

 therein ; and every such regulation, when published in the British Columbia Gazette, 

 shall, so far as the same shall not have been in like manner repealed or varied, be 

 deemed to be and have the force of law, and be so recognized in all courts in the 

 Province, (a) In and by such regulations the board may fix and impose any fine or 

 penalties for the enforcement of the provisions thereof not exceeding in amount the 

 fines and penalties hereinafter provided in case of the evasion of any of the pro- 

 visions of this act. (b) All fines and penalties imposed by any such regulations 

 shall be recovered with costs upon summary conviction before any justice of the 

 peace, in accordance with the provisions of the summary convictions act, 1889, and 

 when collected shall be paid over to the treasurer of the board for the purposes of 

 this act. 



Sec. 8. The lieutenant-governor in council shall appoint, from the number of the 

 board, or from without their number, to hold office at the pleasure of the lieutenant- 

 governor in council, a competent person, especially 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 the horticultural districts of the Province to see that all the reg- 

 ulations of said board be made known to the people of the Province, and to enforce 

 this act and the said regulations in the manner therein or in this act prescribed. 

 The inspector shall, from time to time and whenever required by said board, report 

 to it such information as he may secure from observation, experience, and otherwise 

 as to the best method of diminishing and eradicating fruit pests and diseases from 

 orchards and also suggestions as to practical horticulture, the adoption of produce 

 suitable to soil, climate, and markets, and such other facts and information as shall 

 be calculated to advance the horticultural interests of the Province. The inspector 

 shall, from time to time, under the direction of the board, hold meetings throughout 



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