FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
chairman, and thereupon it shall become 
its duty to supervise the methods and 
means taken for the abatement and de¬ 
struction of the white fly. It shall, as 
soon as possible, with the approval of the 
proper officials in charge of the Agricul¬ 
tural Experiment Station in the Univer¬ 
sity of Florida and of the Board of County 
Commissioners of Orange county, make 
rules prescribing formulas and methods 
for the treatment of citrus groves, or¬ 
chards, yards, nursery stock, trees of any 
kind, shrubs, plants or fruit infested with 
the white fly, and also prescribing the 
methods, time and frequency of applica¬ 
tion, and shall have said rules published 
for free distribution. 
Sec. 4. The commission or any one of 
its members shall have power to examine 
any citrus grove, orchard, yard, nursery 
stock trees of any kind, shrubs, plants or 
fruit for the purpose of determining 
whether the white fly exists therein or 
thereon, and if the same shall be found 
infested, the commission shall notify the 
owner, agent or person in charge, in writ¬ 
ing that the same is infested, and shall 
serve him with a copy of the said rules 
and shall require him to treat the same 
according to said rules beginning at a 
specified time, which notice may be signed 
by any member of the commission and 
shall be served by any commissioner or by 
any person appointed by the commis¬ 
sion for that purpose in the manner di¬ 
rected for the service of a writ of sum¬ 
mons. The commission shall keep a 
record of all such notices and of the name 
of the person upon whom and by whom 
and when the notice was served. If any 
owner or agent of any vacant property 
cannot be found in the county, the com¬ 
mission may enter for the purpose herein¬ 
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after provided without such notice. If the 
owner, agent or person in charge neglects 
or refuses to comply with the notice for 
one week after the'expiration of the time 
named therein, the commission or any 
commissioner may enter the property de¬ 
scribed in the notice and proceed to make 
treatment at actual cost for the white fly 
according to the commission’s published 
rules. In such case the commission shall, 
when the treatment at that time is com¬ 
pleted, render to the owner, agent or per¬ 
son in charge an itemized bill of the actual 
cost of the treatment aforesaid, including 
the necessary per diem of one commis¬ 
sioner and a statement of the time when 
the said bill will be presented to the Board 
of County Commissioners. At the speci¬ 
fied time a duplicate of the bill verified by 
affidavit of at least one of the horticultural 
commissioners shall be presented to the 
Board of County Commissioners, and 
upon a hearing the Board of County Com¬ 
missioners shall allow the said bill or such 
part of it as shall appear to them to be 
proper and just, and if the said bill be not 
paid by the owner, agent or person in 
charge, it shall be paid out of the general 
revenue fund of the county, and such pay¬ 
ment by the county shall be a lien upon the 
property treated, and notice of such lien 
shall be filed and recorded in the office of 
the clerk of the Circuit Court of Orange 
county within sixty days after the warrant 
for the payment aforesaid has been drawn 
in like manner as notices of lien of me¬ 
chanics and material men are filed. Such 
lien may be foreclosed in chancery, but no 
bill for foreclosure shall be filed until one 
year has elapsed from the recording of the 
lien. 
Sec. 5. The Board of County Commis¬ 
sioners shall purchase the necessary ap- 
