INSPECTIONS 2059

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 pathologist of this State, and said officers certify to such
justice of the peace that said nursery stock is apparently free from the
insects and diseases mentioned herein and tag every such carload, box, bale
and package inspected by said officer, 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 constable
or sheriff to burn and destroy all trees, plants, shrubs, vines, buds or cut-
tings that have been shipped into this State in violation of this sub-title.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 67. 1912, sec. 61. 1904, sec. 63. 1898, ch. 289, sec. 61.

71. 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 provided for in section
70 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 trans-
portation company, firm or person shall be adjudged guilty of a misde-
meanor, 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 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 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 nursery-
man, dealer or agent shall forfeit the value of such stock, and shall not col-
lect the same from the purchaser or consignee.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 68. 1912, sec. 62. 1904, sec. 64. 1898, ch. 289, sec. 62.

72. 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 Maryland Agricultural
Experiment Station.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 69. 1912, sec. 63. 1904, sec. 65. 1898, ch. 289, sec. 63.

73. 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 72, as the first
annual report of the Maryland state entomologist.