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AN ACT TO CREATE A STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE. 



which expense, together with all other expenses authorized by this Act, is hereby- 

 allowed for the purposes specified. 



Sec. 2. Upon taking office under this Act such Commissioner shall be entitled to 

 receive and have turned over to him as such Commissioner all the books, records, and 

 property in the possession, charge, custody or control of the State Board of Horticulture 

 heretofore existing, and all such property shall be delivered to such Commissioner upon 

 demand. Such Commissioner shall be deemed for such purposes the successor of said 

 board. 



Sec 3. Such Commissioner shall collect books, pamphlets and periodicals and other 

 documents containing information relating to horticulture, and shall preserve the 

 same ; collect statistics and other information showing the actual condition and progress 

 of horticulture in this State and elsewhere; correspond with horticultural societies, 

 colleges and schools, and with the County Boards of Horticulture existing or that may 

 exist in this State, and with all other persons necessary to secure the best results to 

 horticulture in this State. He shall require reports from County Boards of Horticulture 

 in this State, and may print the same or any part thereof as he may select, either in 

 the form of bulletins or in his annual report, or both, as he shall deem proper. He 

 shall issue and cause to be printed and distributed to County Boards of Horticulture in 

 this State, and to all other persons whom he may deem proper, bulletins or statements 

 containing all the information best adapted to promote the interest and protect the 

 business and development of horticulture in this State. Such Commissioner shall be 

 deemed to be the State horticultural quarantine officer mentioned in chapter seventy- 

 six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the purpose of that Act, and 

 shall be empowered to perform the duties which under that Act are to be performed by 

 the State horticultural quarantine officer; -provided, that any inspection therein author- 

 ized, when made by such Commissioner, must be with the approval of the Governor, 

 and as provided by this Act. 



Sec. 4. Said Commissioner may, by and with the approval of the Governor, estab- 

 lish, maintain and enforce such quarantine regulations as may be deemed necessary to 

 protect the nurseries, trees, shrubs, plants, vines, cuttings, grafts, cions, buds, fruit" 

 pits, fruit, vegetables, or other articles of horticulture, against contagion or infection by 

 injurious disease, insects or pests, by establishing such quarantine at the boundaries of 

 this State or elsewhere within the State, and he may make and enforce, with the 

 approval of the Governor, any and all such rules and regulations as may be deemed 

 necessary to prevent any infected stock, tree, shrub, plant, vine, cutting, graft, cion> 

 bud, fruit-pit, fruit, vegetable, or other article of horticulture, from passing over any 

 quarantine line established and proclaimed pursuant to this Act, and all such articles 

 shall, during the maintenance of such quarantine, be inspected by such Commissioner 

 or by a deputy appointed in writing by said Commissioner with the approval of the 

 Governor, and he or the deputy so conducting such inspection shall not permit any such 

 article to pass over sucb a quarantine line during such quarantine, except upon a cer- 

 tificate of inspection signed by such Commissioner or in his name by such a deputy 

 who has made such inspection, unless such article has been immediately prior to such 

 passage inspected by an officer or agent of the United States entitled to inspect the 

 same, and such officer or agent has granted permission for such passage. All approvals 

 by the Governor given or made pursuant to this Act shall be in writing and signed by 

 the Governor in duplicate, and one copy thereof shall be filed in the office of the Secre- 

 tary of State, and the other in the office of said Commissioner before such approval 

 shall take effect. 



Sec 5. Upon information received by such Commissioner of the existence of any 

 infectious disease, insect or pest, dangerous to any such article, or to the interest of 

 horticulture within this State, or that there is a probability of the introduction of any 

 such infectious disease, insect or pest into this State or across the boundaries thereof, he 

 shall proceed to thoroughly investigate the same, and may, by and with the approval 

 of the Governor, establish, maintain and enforce quarantine as hereinbefore provided' 

 with such regulations as may be necessary to circumscribe and exterminate or eradicate 

 such infectious diseases, insects or pests, and prevent the extension thereof, and is 

 hereby authorized to enter upon any grounds or premises, and inspect any stock, tree, 

 shrub, plant, vine, cutting, graft, cion, bud, fruit-pit, fruit, vegetable, or.other article of 



