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MR. KELLOGG. Now comes a matter of law, more than anything 

 else, and the committee did not feel competent to pass upon it, as none, 

 of us are lawyers, but those who have presented it have studied it and 

 I have no doubt it is correct. 



Resolution Relating to Amendment of Horticultural Law. 



Whereas, An act passed by the last legislature of the State of California, and which said 

 act is known as the County Horticultural Law, and which among other things attempts to 

 amend sections 2322, 2322a, 2322b, 2322c, 2322d, and 2322e of the Political Code of this 

 State, relating to the county board of horticulture, is defective, vague, and uncertain in certain 

 respects; therefore, be it 



Resolved, By the State fruit growers in convention assembled at Watsonville, California, on 

 December 8, 9, 10, 1909, that our senators and assemblymen be requested to use their best 

 efforts to have said law amended in the following respects: 



1. That section 2322d be amended by inserting after the word "day," at the end of the first 

 section therein, the following: "During the time actually employed as such officers." 



2. That a new section be added to said act to read as follows: "That the powers and 

 duties of the deputy county horticultural commissioners shall be the same as those of the 

 county horticultural commissioner." 



3. That section 2322b be amended so as to contain the following: "The state commissioner 

 may issue commissions as quarantine guardians to the county horticultural commisioner, or 

 his deputies appointed by him." 



4. That section 2322d be amended so as to contain the following: "In the case of the 

 commissioner himself, his compensation shall be $6 per day when actually engaged in the 

 performance of his duties; provided, that the term 'duties' shall include investigation and 

 experimentation in the matter of devising new methods and improving upon old methods of 

 combating and eradicating insect pests and plant diseases, and he shall be allowed, in addi- 

 tion to his said salary, necessary traveling and office expenses, including the amount necessarily 

 expended in making public his said investigations." 



5. That a new section be added to said act to read substantially as follows: 



"The boards of supervisors throughout the State are hereby empowered to set aside a 

 sufficient sum to pay the salaries and other expenses set forth in this act." 



6. That a new section be added to said act to read substantially as follows: 



"Any board of supervisors shall have the power to employ at a reasonable compensation, 

 and for whatever time is in their judgment necessary, an entomologist, whose duties may be 

 to carry on investigations and experimentations for the purpose of devising the best and 

 cheapest methods for combating insect pests and diseases of all agricultural crops and for 

 the eradication of noxious weeds and other pests, and when deemed advisable by him, to issue 

 bulletins or take other means of supplying the public with such information." 



Respectfully submitted. 



Geo. D. Kellogg. 

 J. P. Dargitz, 

 A. X. Judd, 

 Committee on Resolutions. 



The resolution was adopted. 



MR. KELLOGG. That completes our report. 



PRESIDENT JEFFREY. I have a communication here that it 

 would be a discourtesy to overlook, but I don 't know what to do with it. 

 This is dated Auburn, Cal., December 7. 1909, from the Placer County 

 Farmers' Union. Now. this must have the courtesy of a reply, and I 

 suggest that you refer this letter to some one for a reply. 



MR. KELLOGG. I move it be referred to the Chairman of the con- 

 vention for a suitable reply. 



The motion was duly seconded and carried. 



PRESIDENT JEFFREY. When you go from this convention home. 

 I hope you will say you had a good time and were pleased with "Wat- 

 sonville and her fruits. You have expressed your thanks through 

 your resolutions to the people of Watsonville for what they have done, 

 but you should tell everybody all over the State what they have done 

 for you here. I say, ' 1 Hurrah for the people of Watsonville ! ' ' 



The convention then adjourned sine die. 



