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In tlie California act creating a State board of horticulture,^ approved 

 March 13, 1883, the following sections relate in part to diseases of 

 plants : 



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

 promoting the objects of its formation. It shall meet semiannually, and as much 

 oftener, and at such places, as it may deem expedient, to consult and adopt such 

 measures as may best promote the horticultural industries of the State. It may, 

 but without expense to the State, select and appoint competent and qualified per- 

 sons to lecture in each of the horticultural districts named in section 1 of this act, 

 for the purpose of illustrating practical horticultural topics and imparting instruc- 

 tions in the methods of culture, pruning, fertilizing, and also in the best methods of 

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

 insect pests. The office of the board shall be kept open to the public, subject to the 

 rules of the board, every day, excepting legal holidays, and shall be in charge of the 

 secretary during the absence of the board. 



S^EC. 5. 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 diseases of fruit and fruit trees, and for the disinfection of grafts, scions, 

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

 transportable articles, dangerous to orchards, fruit, and fruit trees, said board shall 

 make regulations for the inspection and disinfection thereof which said regulations 

 shall be circulated in printed form by the board among the fruit growers and fruit 

 dealers of the State, shall be published at least twenty days in two daily newspa- 

 pers of general circulation in the State, not of the same city or county, 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. Such regulations, when so posted, 

 shall be held to impart notice of their contents to all persons within this State, 

 and shall be binding upon all persons. 



Sec. 6. The said board shall elect of their own number, or appoint from without 

 their number, a competent person especially qualified by practical experience in 

 horticulture for the duties of his office, who shall be known as inspector of fruit 

 pests (to hold office at the pleasure of the board), whose duties it shall be to visit 

 the horticultural districts of the State, to see that all regulations of said board and 

 provisions of law to prevent the spread of fruit pests and diseases of trees and 

 plants injurious to the horticultural interests of the State, and all regulations of 

 said board in the nature of quarantining infected or infested districts, and also all 

 rules and regulations of said board concerning disinfection of fruits, trees, plants, 

 grafts, scions, orchard debris, empty fruit boxes and packages, and other material 

 dangerous to orchards, fruit, and fruit trees are enforced. He shall also, whenever 

 required, and under the direction of the board, and may also upon his own motion, 

 and upon the complaint of interested parties, inspect orchards, nurseries, and other 

 places suspected or believed to be infested with fruit pests, or infected with con- 

 tagious disease injurious to trees, plants, or fruits, and he shall report the facts to 

 said board. If, upon report of said inspector, or from well-attested facts otherwise 

 before it, said board shall be of the opinion that any locality, orchard, district, or 

 place is infested with fruit pests, or infected with contagious disease injurious to 

 trees, plants, or fruits, and liable to spread to other localities, to the injury of other 

 persons or places, said board shall, by an order entered upon its minutes, so declare 

 such and said infested or infected district or place shall be under the quarantine 

 regulations of said board. As soon, however, as in the opinion of said inspector the 

 danger from such locality has ceased, he may suspend such quarantine regulations, 

 and shall immediately report the fact to the board, who may approve or disapprove 

 his action. He shall, from time to time, and whenever required by said board, report 



1 statutes of California, 1883, Sacramento, pp. 290-292. 



