INSPECTIONS 2061

1939, ch. 573, sec. 70D.

78. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this sub-title the
State Board of Agriculture is hereby authorized and empowered to employ
such entomologists, engineers, attorneys, supervisors, laborers and other
persons as it may from time to time deem necessary and it may execute
such work as it may undertake in pursuance of this sub-title by contract
or force account, as it may deem to be in the best interest of the State.

1939, ch. 573, sec. 70E.

79. The State Board of Agriculture through the State Entomologist
or its duly authorized officer or agent is hereby authorized and empowered
to accept, use or expend on such terms as may be satisfactory to said Board
such aid, gift or loan as may from time to time be made available by the
Government of the United States or any agency thereof for the purpose of
carrying out the provisions of this sub-title.

Tree and Fruit Inspectors—The Yellows.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 72. 1912, sec. 66. 1904, sec. 68. 1892, ch. 639, sec. 1.
1902, ch. 148, sec. 66.

80. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or allow to be and
remain on his lands or premises, in the State of Maryland, any peach,
almond, apricot, nectarine or other tree infected with the contagious dis-
ease known as the yellows, or to offer for sale or shipment, or to sell or ship
to others any such trees or the fruit thereof in any form; and any person
convicted before any justice of the peace of selling or shipping said trees
or the fruit thereof in any form, knowing the same to be so diseased, or
after he shall have been notified thereof by an inspector, shall be fined a
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, 1924, sec. 73. 1912, sec. 67. 1904, sec. 69. 1892, ch. 639, sec. 2.

81. 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 sub-title, 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, 1924, sec. 74. 1912, sec. 68. 1904, sec. 70. 1892, ch. 639, sec. 3.

82. 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.