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E. M. Wardall, of Califorina. 
N. J. Bacheldbr, of New Hampshire. 
C. M. Hobbs, of Indiana. 
E. S. Goff, of Wisconsin. 
E. S. Henry, of Connecticut. 
F. M. Webster, of Ohio. 
It was ordered by the Convention that all propositions relative 
to State or National legislation should be referred to the Legislative 
Committee without debate, hut that this committee should grant 
hearings to all persons who desired to a})poar before it, before 
making up its recommendations. 
The Legislative Committee entered at once upon its work, gave 
full hearings to all persons who desired to appear before it, and 
labored patiently and harmoniously to unify the interests lepie- 
sented. After three protracted sessions they united in reporting 
two separate papers as given below, one dealing with State legislar 
tion and the other with National legislation. 
REPORT ON STATE LEGISLATION. 
The Committee on Legislation recommended the following 
propositions to be embodied in appropriate State legislation as 
against the introduction or spread of dangerously injurious insects 
or plant diseases: 
1st. That each State should provide for the proper inspection of 
nurseries and other premises for the detection of the presence of 
the San Jose Scale, or other dangerously injurious insects or plant 
diseases. 
2d. That each State should provide for the proiicr and timely 
application of the most approved remedial or preventive treatment 
when found necessary. 
3d. That should packages of nursery stock, etc., be shipped into 
a State contrary to law, i. e., without proper inspection certificates 
attached, it ought to be so handled as to receive proper inspection 
and not be destroyed unless condemned by proper and competent 
authority. 
4th. That each State should cooperate in securing the passage 
and enforcement of a National law, providing against the introduc¬ 
tion and dissemination of San Jose Scale and other dangerously 
injurious insects and plant diseases by means of imports or through 
inter-State commerce. 
