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of the said certificate printed upon a tag or label not easily destroyed, the
same to be firmly attached in some conspicuous position upon each carload,
box, bale or package so sent out or delivered.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 64. 1912, sec. 58. 1904, sec. 60. 1898, ch. 289, sec. 59.

68. Should any nurseryman, agent, broker, dealer or other person send
out or deliver within the State, or transport to any other State or territory
or the District of Columbia, trees, vines, shrubs, plants, buds or cuttings,
subject to the attacks of insects and diseases above provided for, without
attaching a copy of said certificate, deface or destroy said certificate, or
wrongfully attach a certificate, he shall be adjudged guilty of a misde-
meanor, and shall upon conviction before 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 com-
mitted 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 pro-
vided for carrying out the provisions of this sub-title.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 65. 1912, sec. 59. 1904, sec. 61. 1898, ch. 289, sec. 59A.

69. All trees, plants, vines, shrubs, buds or cuttings, commonly known
as nursery stock, grown or handled by each and every nurseryman 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 66. 1912, sec. 60. 1904, sec. 62. 1896, ch. 290, sec. 58. 1898, ch. 289,
sec. 60. 1916, ch. 186. 1916, ch. 285, sec. 60.

70. When any trees, plants, shrubs, vines, buds or cuttings commonly
known as nursery stock are shipped into this State from any other State or
territory, or the District of Columbia to any nurseryman, broker, dealer,
agent ^jor other person in this State, every carload, bale, box or package
thereof shall be plainly labeled on the outside with the name of the con-
signor, the name of the consignee, and a certificate showing that the contents
have been inspected by a qualified State or government officer, and that
the trees, plants, vines, shrubs or cuttings therein contained are apparently
free from the insects and diseases 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 con-
signor, and said agent of the transportation company, firm or person shall
notify the State entomologist or State pathologist at the Maryland State
College of Agriculture 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 car-
load, 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