AN ACT TO CREATE A STATE COMMISSION OF HORTICULTURE. 7 



horticulture, or implement thereof, or box or package pertaining thereto, or connected 

 therewith, or that has been used in packing, shipping or handling the same, and to open 

 any such package, and generally to do, with the least injury possible under the condi- 

 tions to property or business, all acts and things necessary to carry out the provisions 

 of this Act. 



Sec. 6. Upon the discovery of any such infectious disease, insects or pests, such 

 Commissioner shall immediately report the same to all County Boards of Horticulture) 

 together with a statement as to the best known means or method for circumscribing, 

 exterminating or eradicating the same, and shall state therein specifically what treat- 

 ment or method should be applied in each case, as the matter may require, with a 

 detailed statement or prescription as to the method of making or procuring, and of 

 applying any preparation or treatment so recommended therefor, and the times and 

 duration for such treatment, and if chemicals or articles be required other than those 

 usually obtainable at any town, the place or places where they are most readily to be 

 obtained ; and upon the receipt of such statement by any County Board of Horticulture, 

 or any member thereof, it shall be the duty of such County Board of Horticulture to 

 distribute such statement in printed form to every person owning or having charge or 

 possession of any orchard, nursery stock, tree, shrub, or article of horticulture within 

 their county, where it is supposed by said County Board there is any danger to the 

 interests of horticulture, and such a statement must be served with or be a part of the 

 notice to be given to the owner or owners, or person or persons, in possession of any 

 orchard, nursery, tree, shrub, or article of horticulture, referred to, provided for, and 

 required to be served in and by section two of chapter one hundred and eighty-three of 

 the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, or any amendments which have been 

 or may be made thereto. 



Sec. 7. Whenever it shall become necessary to establish quarantine under this Act, 

 if there be any authorities or officers of the United States having authority to act in 

 such matter, or any part thereof, the said State Commissioner of Horticulture shall 

 notify such authority or officers of the United States, and co-operate as far as possible 

 with such authorities or officers of the United States wheresoever the jurisdiction of the 

 United States extends and is being exercised, and shall obtain, whenever desirable and 

 possible, the assent of the proper authority or officers of the United States to the estab- 

 lishment or change of quarantine lines, so as to most effectively and speedily accomplish 

 the purposes of this Act. The said Commissioner shall at once notify the Governor of 

 all quarantine lines established under or pursuant to this Act, and if the Governor 

 approve or shall have approved of the same or any portion thereof, the Governor shall 

 issue his proclamation proclaiming the boundaries of such quarantine, and the nature 

 thereof, and. the orders, rules or regulations prescribed for the maintenance and enforce- 

 ment of the same, and shall publish such proclamation in such manner as he may deem 

 expedient to give proper notice thereof. 



Sec. 8. The said State Commissioner shall be ex officio a member of all County 

 Boards of Horticulture existing or that may be created or exist in this State pursuant to 

 law, whenever he is present and acting with said County Board within the county, where 

 such County Board exists, but when he is not so present in such a county, acting with 

 such County Board, then the said County Board shall have all the power and authority 

 conferred on it by law, and may exercise such power by the action of the members of 

 such County Board or a majority thereof. The reports which County Boards of Horti- 

 culture are required by law to make, or which they may desire to make, shall, after the 

 passage of this Act, be made to the State Commissioner of Horticulture. 



Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of State Printing to print and 

 deliver to the State Commissioner of Horticulture, upon the written request of said 

 Commissioner, all such bulletins, orders, rules, regulations, statements, reports, and 

 other printed matter, as the said Commissioner may deem necessary to have and use for 

 carrying out the purposes of this Act, and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State 

 to cause to be prepared and furnished to such State Commissioner all stationery, paper, 

 blank forms, envelopes, and writing material needful and convenient for use in the 

 office of such Commissioner. 



Sec 10. It shall be the duty of said State Commissioner to report in the month of 

 January in each even-numbered year to the Governor, and in each odd-numbered year 



