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cause such stamp to be used, or shall imitate or counterfeit any stamp or device used 

 for such purpose shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 



Sec. 4. It shall be the special duty of each member of the State board of horticul- 

 ture to see that the provisions of this act are carried out within his respective hor- 

 ticultural district, and all offenders duly punished. 



Sec. 5. All fruit trees infested by any insect or insects, their germs, larvae or pupjB, 

 or infected by disease known to be injurious to fruit or fruit trees, and liable to 

 spread contagion, must be cleaned or disinfected before the first day of April, eight- 

 een hundred and eighty-five, and on or before the first day of April of each succeed- 

 ing year thereafter. All owners or occupants of lands on which fruit trees are grown 

 failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 

 and fined as provided for in section six of this act. All fruit, packages, trees, plants, 

 cuttings, grafts, and scions that shall not be disinfected within twenty-four hours 

 after notice by the inspector of fruit pests, or a duly appointed quarantine guardian, 

 or any member of the board of horticulture, shall be liable to be proceeded against 

 as a public nuisance. 



Sec. 6. Any person or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall 

 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine 

 of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for every 

 offense. 



Approved, March 9, 1885. 



liATVS OF COIVNECTICUT. 



AN ACT providing for a commission on peach yellows. (General assembly, January .session, A. D. 



1893.) 



Be it enacted hy the senate and house of representatives in general assembly convened: 



Section 1. The State board of agriculture shall, within thirty days from the pas- 

 sage of this act, appoint a commissioner on peach yellows, to hold office during the 

 pleasure of said board. Said commissioner may, with the approval of said board 

 and under the provisions of this act, adopt and carry out such plans as may be 

 deemed necessary for the eradication of the disease common to peach trees known 

 as peach yellows. 



Sec. 2. At all joint meetings of said board and said commissioner for the purpose 

 of confei'ence the commissioner shall receive pay from the board for his expenses 

 only. Said commissioner may, with the approval of said board, appoint one or more 

 deputies in each county ; and when employed in the performance of duties imposed 

 by this act said commissioner and his deputies shall receive from the State, upon 

 presentation to the comptroller of bills duly sworn to, audited by the auditing com- 

 mittee of the board of agriculture, and approved by the governor, five dollars per 

 day and their expenses. 



Sec. 3. Any peach, almond, apricot, or nectarine tree diseased by the yellows, and 

 all fruit from any such diseased tree, is hereby declared a public nuisance, and it 

 shall be the duty of said commissioner or any deputy, under such regulations as the 

 State board of agriculture may adopt or approve of, to order such trees or such fruit 

 destroyed, and upon the failure of the owner to obey such order, to destroy such trees 

 or fruit, and no damage shall be paid to such owner on account of such destruction. 

 .Sec, 4. Any person may, when ordered to destroy any tree or fruit condemned 

 by the said commissioner or deputy, appeal to the State board of agriculture, and 

 said board shall appoint a committee of three experts, which committee shall not 

 include the person who, acting as commissioner or deputy, ordered such tree or fruit 

 destroyed, and the decision of such committee shall be final. 



Sec. 5. Any person who shall, while such an appeal is pending, sell any tree from 

 a nursery where there are found to be diseased trees, or any fruit from such tree; or 

 who shall, without such appeal, or after such final decision, refuse to destroy such 

 tree or fruit, shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred 

 dollars. 



