ACALA COTTON IN CALIFORNIA 27 
missioner was charged with the enforcement of the ordinance, and 
penalties for violation were stated. The ordinance in full follows: 
Ordinance Xo. 151 
An ordinance of the county of Riverside, State of California, defining and establishing- pure- 
seed districts within said county ; prohibiting the planting in pure-seed districts within 
said county of impure seeds and plants ; prohibiting the importing into or the trans- 
portation over or tbe possession within such pure-seed districts of impure seeds or 
plants, and providing penalties for the violation thereof 
The hoard of supervisors of the county of Riverside, State of California, do 
ordain as follows: 
Section 1. For the purposes of this ordinance certain words, phrases, and 
terms are herein and hereby defined as follows : 
(a) The word "person" shall include an individual, a copartnership, an 
association, firm, or corporation, and the singular shall include the plural. 
(b) The word " township " shall mean a Government township as surveyed 
and established by the United States Government. 
(c) The term "pure seed" shall mean seeds that are defined as pure by the 
official standards of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
(d) The term "pure-seed district" shall mean a district where the seed of 
any particular plant is raised for sale for propagating purposes as a business. 
Sec. 2. Whenever a .majority of the growers of any one seed-bearing crop 
within one or more townships lying within the county of Riverside, State of 
California, organize themselves into an association under the laws of the State 
of California for the purpose of growing, producing, and marketing pure 
seed of such crop for propagating purposes, such township or townships shall 
thereupon become and be a pure-seed district within the meaning of this 
ordinance. 
Sec. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to plant within any pure-seed 
district in the county of Riverside any seeds or plants of any other variety or 
varieties of the pure-seed crops being grown in such pure-seed district. 
Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to transport into or to have in 
his possession within a pure-seed district in the county of Riverside any seed 
or plants of any other variety of the pure-seed crops being grown in said 
district: Provided, That this provision shall not apply to seed in transit from 
a point without such district to a destination without said district nor to inter- 
state commerce passing through said district and not consigned to any point 
therein: And provided further, That the provisions hereof shall not apply to 
the transportation into or through such district of seed and plants for 
experimental or technical purposes under the rules and regulations promul- 
gated by the United States Department of Agriculture, the department of 
agriculture of the State of California, or the office of the horticultural com- 
missioner of the county of Riverside. 
Sec 5. The horticultural commissioner of the county of Riverside is hereby 
charged with the duty of enforcing the provisions of this ordinance, and all 
the provisions of the laws of the State of California with relation to the 
inspection of seeds, plants, "and nursery stock consigned to points within the 
county, the giving of notice of the receipt thereof, and the summary seizure 
and destruction thereof are hereby expressly made a part of this ordinance. 
Sec 6. Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance 
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall 
be punished by a fine of not more than $500 and by imprisonment in the county 
jail of Riverside County for not more than six months or by both such fine 
and imprisonment. 
Sec 7. This ordinance shall take effect from and after fifteen days after 
its passage and before said date shall be published as required by law. 
This ordinance went into effect for the season of 1924, and its 
provisions covered adequately the possible need of the Coachella 
Valley for the protection of its Acala cotton industry. At any rate, 
coupled-with the local gins' refusal to gin cotton of any variety other 
than Acala, it had the desired effect, and the one or two growers 
who had not previously grown Acala planted this variety in 1924. 
