1250 INSPECTIONS. [ART. 48

any justice of the peace be fined a sum not less than ten dollars ($10)
nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) and costs of prosecution for
each and every offense, and stand committed until such fine and costs
are paid, and the fines so collected shall be paid to the trustees of the
said college and be added to the funds herein provided for carrying
out the provisions of this sub-title.

1904, art 48, sec. 61. 1898, ch. 289, sec. 59 A.

59. All trees, plants, vines, shrubs, buds or cuttings, commonly
known as nursery stock, grown or handled by each and every nursery-
man within this State, and subject to the attacks of the aforesaid insects
or diseases, shall be fumigated by the nurseryman owning the same,
with hydrocyanic acid gas in buildings or enclosures inspected and
approved by the aforesaid State officers under their direction.

Ibid. sec. 62. 1896, ch. 290, sec. 58. 1898, ch. 289, sec. 60.

60. When any trees, plants, shrubs, vines, buds or cuttings com-
monly known as nursery stock are shipped into this State from any
other State or territory, or the District of Columbia to any nuresry-
man, broker, dealer, agent or other person in this State, every carload,
bale, box or package thereof shall be plainly labeled on the outside
with the name of the consignor, the name of the consignee, and a certifi-
cate showing that the contents have been inspected by a qualified State
or government officer, and that the trees, plants, vines, shrubs or cut-
tings therein contained are apparently free from the insects and dis-
eases herein provided for. Whenever any trees, plants, vines, shrubs,
buds or cuttings are shipped into this State from any other State or
territory, or the District of Columbia, without such certificate plainly
fixed on the outside of each carload, box, bale or package, the agent
of the transportation company, firm or person receiving same shall not
deliver said nursery stock to the consignee or agent representing the
consignor, and said agent of the transportation company, firm or person
shall notify the state entomologist or state pathologist at the Maryland
Agricultural College, and said state officer receiving such notification
shall immediately notify any justice of the peace of this State to issue
a summons for the consignee, and the agent or consignor, if he be
known, of such carload, bale, box, or package of nursery stock, to appear
before him on a certain day to be named therein, to show why such
trees, plants, vines, shrubs, buds or cuttings should not be seized as
being in violation of the provisions of this sub-title, and on trial thereof,
if said justice be satisfied that the provisions of this sub-title have been
violated, said justice shall order said agent or consignee to return such
carload, box, bale or package of trees, plants, shrubs, vines, buds or
cuttings immediately to the shipper or consignor unless said consignee
or agent of the consignor at his expense shall forthwith have said
nursery stock examined by the state entomologist and the state pathol-
ogist of this State, and said officers certify to such justice qf the peace
that said nursery stock is apparently free from the insects and dis-