AN ACT , 
To Provide for the Inspection and Treatment of Trees, Plants,, ■ 
Buds, Cuttings, Grafts, Scions, Nursery Stock and Fruit, 
IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED STATES, AND FOR THE INSPECTION ^ 
AND Treatment of Trees, Plants, Buds, Cuttings, Grafts, . 
Scions and Nursery Stock grown within the United States, 
WHICH becomes a SUBJECT OF INTER-STATE COMMERCE. 
Section 1.—Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Repre¬ 
sentatives OF THE United States of America in Congress 
Assembled, 
That the Secretary of Agriculture be, and he is hereby, author¬ 
ized at the expense of the owner or owners to place and retain in 
quarantine all trees, plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, scions, nursery 
stock and fruit, imported into the Hinted States at such ports as he 
may designate for such purposes, and under such conditions as he 
may, by regulation, prescribe, and that he may appoint inspectors 
for the purpose of examining such trees, plants, buds cuttings, 
grafts, scions, nursery stock and fruit for the purpose of ascertain¬ 
ing whether they are aftected by any dangerously injurious insect 
or disease, the importation of which will be prejudicial to the v 
horticultural interests of the United States, and provide for the 
treatment of such when found necessary. 
Sec. 2. That when such trees, plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, 
scions, nursery stock and fruit shall he determined to be infested 
ivith an}' dangerously injurious insect or disease they shall he 
treated at the expense of the owner or owners in accordance with 
the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, or they shall be 
destroyed in case their condition is such as to warrant such 
destruction; but an appeal may be taken from the decision of the 
inspector to the Secretary of Agriculture if such appeal be taken 
within three days after such inspection and the decision of the 
Secretary of Agriculture shall he iinal. 
Sec. 3. d^hat when such inspection shall show that such trees, 
plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, scions, nursery stock and fruit are 
apparently free from dangerously injurious insects or diseases 
a certificate to this effect, made in accordance with the regulations 
