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the municipal president as inspector, he shall be subject to a 

 penalty consisting of a fine not exceeding P. 200 or thirty days' 

 imprisonment, as may be decreed by the court. 



Tor the purposes of this resolution, all inspectors duly 

 appointed by the director of education have the same authority 

 as conferred by this resolution on the municipal president as 

 inspector ex officio. Such inspectors appointed by the director 

 of education are hereby authorized to enforce the provisions of 

 this resolution in the same manner as the municipal president, 

 i.e. by charging any person (or persons) who refuses or fails to 

 comply with* the inspector's order to destroy the trees having 

 the disease known as the bud rot before the court of proper 

 jurisdiction. 



For the purposes of this resolution, and under authority of 

 section 13 of paragraph (k) of Act No. 83 as amended, the pro- 

 vincial board of the Province of La Laguna hereby confers juris- 

 diction upon all justices of the peace of the Province of La Laguna 

 to try violators of the foregoing resolution or regulations, and 

 there is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the provincial 

 treasury not otherwise appropriated a sufficient amount for the 

 necessary expenses in paying costs of prosecutions before justices 

 of the peace. 



Be it further resolved, That six certified copies of this resolu- 

 tion be furnished each municipal secretary ; one copy for the 

 municipal president as inspector, the other five copies to be 

 posted in five conspicuous places in the municipality. A certi- 

 fied copy shall be furnished each justice of the peace, a certified 

 copy to the director of education, and a certified copy to the 

 honourable judge of the Court of First Instance of the Sixth 

 Judicial District. 



This resolution was passed March 13, 1908, but 

 almost immediately rescinded under orders from Manila. 

 It was re-enacted October 14, and this time followed by 

 a very vigorous campaign of fire, although the season 

 was far from favourable. Three months after this work 

 began a tree showing symptoms of bud rot had become 

 an uncommon sight. In the villages I visited at this 

 time the new cases appearing were certainly not one- 

 tenth as numerous as they had been a year before. I 

 have since made a practice of visiting this district once 

 or twice every year. This year, 1913, for the first time 

 since the vigorous campaign against bud rot, I found 



