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eases mentioned herein and tag every such carload, box, bale and pack-
age inspected by said officers, with their certificate of inspection, and
if said agent or consignee shall fail to have said nursery stock examined
by said state officials or fail to return such carload, box, bale or package
thereof, then said justice of the peace shall order and direct the con-
stable or sheriff to burn and destroy all such trees, plants, shrubs,
vines, buds or cuttings that have been shipped into this State in viola-
tion of this sub-title.

1904, art. 48, sec. 63. 1898, ch. 289, sec. 61.

61. Whenever any agent of a transportation company, firm or
person shall receive a carload, box, bale or package of trees, plants,
shrubs, vines, buds or cuttings, without a certificate attached, as pro-
vided for in section 60 of this sub-title, and shall fail to notify the
state entomologist or state pathologist of this fact immediately upon
the arrival of such nursery stock, and before delivering the same to
the consignee, said agent of the transportation company, firm or person
shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction
before a justice of the peace be fined a sum not less than ten dollars
($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) and costs of prose-
cution 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 said college to be added to the funds herein provided for
carrying out the provisions of this sub-title. If any nurseryman, dealer
or agent sell, ship or deliver any trees, plants, shrubs or vines into or in
this State, which are infected with San Jose scale, peach-yellow, pear-
blight or other injurious diseases, and upon examination by the state
pathologist, state entomologist or their assistants, are condemned by
being so infected, the said trees, plants, vines and shrubs shall be
destroyed, and the nurseryman, dealer or agent shall forfeit the value
of such stock, and shall not collect the same from the purchaser or
consignee.

Ibid. sec. 64. 1898, ch. 289, sec. 62.

62. The state entomologist, state pathologist and state horticulturist
shall submit annually a written report on or before the first day of
February of their inspections and investigations to the board of trustees,
which shall be transmitted to the governor of the State and the general
assembly, and published as are the reports of other State organizations
and distributed among the people of the State as bulletins of the Mary-
land Agricultural Experiment Station.

Ibid sec. 65. 1898, ch. 289, sec. 63.

63. The report of the present state entomologist, including the work
done by him up to the date of the passage of this sub-title, shall be
published and distributed as indicated and provided for in section 62,
as the first annual report of the Maryland state entomologist.