FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
salesman or agent, as the case may be, and 
shall designate the business which may be 
carried on thereunder, and no license shall 
be assigned or transferred. Licenses to sales¬ 
men, agents or solicitors, shall show the name 
and location of nursery or place of business 
of the nurseryman or tree dealers for whom 
he acts, and no license shall be granted to an 
agent, salesman or solicitor, unless the party 
whom he represents shall have taken out a 
license and furnished bond, as herein provided. 
Section 17. Each licensed nurseryman and 
tree dealer under provisions of this act shall 
make, execute and deliver to the State Com¬ 
missioner of Horticulture a bond running to 
the Governor of the State of Florida, in the 
sum of $1,000.00, with sureties to be approved 
by said commissioner, conditioned for the 
compliance by such licensee with all of the 
laws of the »State of Florida, relative to the 
sale, disposition, delivery, inspection and dis¬ 
infection of nursery stock, fruit trees, or hor¬ 
ticultural plants dealt in, sold, handled, or de¬ 
livered by such licensee; also, that all nursery 
stock shall be true to name and variety as 
represented: Provided, no liability shall at¬ 
tach by reason of stock being untrue to name, 
unless at least 5 per cent of any variety in 
any order shall so prove untrue to name. 
Section 18. The State Commissioner of 
Horticulture shall keep in his office a record 
of all licenses issued as herein provided, which 
records shall show the character of the license, 
the name of the holder, the date of issuance 
and the day of expiration. The bonds taken 
from tree dealers and nurserymen, as herein 
provided shall also be filed with and held by 
said State Commissioner of Horticulture. 
Section 19. Upon report being made to the 
Commissioner of Horticulture by any horti¬ 
cultural inspector that any person, firm, or 
corporation holding a license has not complied 
with, or is not complying with, the laws of 
the State of Florida relative to such business, 
said State Commissioner of Horticulture may 
suspend the license of such person, firm, or 
corporation, and shall investigate the facts, and 
if it be ascertained that such licensee has vio¬ 
lated the laws of the State relating to such 
business in any particular, such license shall 
be revoked. The cancellation or revocation 
of any bond furnished by any nurseryman or 
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tree dealer, as herein provided, shall, ipso 
facto, work a revocation of the license of such 
person and all agents, solicitors and salesmen 
employed by and representing him. 
^Section 20. Any person, or persons, suf¬ 
fering damage for any cause by reason of the 
infection of nursery stock bought by him or 
them, or by reason of receiving nursery stock, 
fruit trees or horticultural plants not true to 
the name as represented by the owner, solicit¬ 
or, or agent selling the same, shall have re¬ 
course against the bond filed by the person 
from whom such stock was purchased, for all 
damages sustained, which damages may be 
recovered by suit in any court of competent 
jurisdiction: Provided, no liability shall at¬ 
tach to bond unless at least 5 per cent of any 
variety ordered shall prove untrue to name. 
Section 21. Any person, firm or corpora¬ 
tion, who shall carry on or conduct any busi¬ 
ness within this State, for which a license is 
required, as herein provided, and without first 
having procured said license and furnished 
bond's, as herein provided, shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction 
thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, 
shall be suject to a fine of not more than 
$500.00, together with the costs of prosecution, 
and shall be committed to jail until such fine 
and costs are paid, unless otherwise released 
by law. 
Section 22. Any person who shall falsely 
represent that he is agent or representative 
of any tree dealer, nurseryman, or dealer in 
fruit trees, or horticultural plants or orna¬ 
mental shrubbery shall be guilty of a misde¬ 
meanor, and, upon conviction thereof shall be 
fined in any sum of not more than $500.00, 
together with the costs of prosecution, and 
shall be committed to jail until such fine and 
costs are paid, unless otherwise released by 
law. 
Section 23. It shall be the duty of each 
person within the State of Florida owning 
premises on which there is or shall be grow¬ 
ing, or grown, any nursery stock, fruit trees, 
shade trees, ornamental shrubbery, or trees, 
shade trees, ornamental shrubbery, or 
horticultural plants situated upon premises 
leased or occupied by him or the owner of 
any nursery stock, fruit trees, ornamental 
shrubbery, or other horticultual plants, or 
