1772 ARTICLE 48.

sum not exceeding ten dollars and costs, and upon failure to pay the same
shall be confined in the county jail for a term not exceeding thirty days.

An. Code, sec. 67. 1904, sec. 69. 1892, ch. 639, sec. 2.

73. The trees and fruit so infected shall be subject to destruction as
public nuisance as hereinafter provided, and no damages shall be awarded
in any court of this State or by any justice of the peace thereof against
any person or persons for entering upon lands or premises and destroying
such diseased trees and fruit if done in accordance with the provisions of
this subtitle, and it shall be the duty of every person as soon as he becomes
aware of the existence of such disease in any tree or fruit owned by him to
forthwith destroy by burning the same or cause it to be destroyed by
burning.

An. Code, sec. 68. 1904, sec. 70. 1892, ch. 639, sec. 3.

74. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the various
counties on the application of three or more citizens of said county to
appoint each year three competent peach growers for each election district
of the several counties or for such of said election districts as said commis-
sioners may deem fit to act as tree and fruit inspectors, who shall hold said
office during the year following their appointment or during the pleasure
of said county commissioners.

An. Code, sec. 69. 1904, sec. 71. 1892, ch. 639, sec. 4.

75. It shall be the duty of said tree and fruit inspectors immediately
after their appointment to give notice thereof in such newspapers of their
county as they may select; and it shall be their duty whenever it comes to
their notice that the disease known as the yellows exists in any trees or
fruit in their respective districts to proceed forthwith to examine or cause
to be examined the trees or fruit supposed to be infected, and if the disease
is found after such examination to exist, a distinguishing mark shall be
placed upon said diseased trees by said tree and fruit inspectors, or by
some one directed by them, and the owner thereof notified personally or by
a written notice left at his usual place of residence, or by leaving the notice
with the person in charge of the trees or fruit, or in whose possession the
same may be, said notice to contain a simple statement of the facts as found
to exist, with an order to effectually remove and destroy by fire the trees
so marked within fifteen days from the date of the service of said notice,
and in case of fruit so infected, such notice shall require the person in whose
possession or control it is found to immediately destroy the same or cause
it to be destroyed by fire.

An. Code, sec. 70. 1904, sec. 72. 1892, ch. 639, sec. 5.

76. Whenever any person shall refuse or neglect to comply with the
order to destroy the trees or fruit so ordered to be destroyed, it shall be the
duty of said tree and fruit inspectors to lodge a complaint before one of the
justices of the peace of the county, who shall forthwith summon the owner,
or other person so neglecting or refusing, and upon being satisfied, after an