ART. 48] STATE HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.. 375

1896, ch. 290. 1898, ch. 289.

53. The said horticultural department shall be under the con-
trol of the board of trustees $f the Maryland Agricultural
College and Experiment Station, to whom the officers created
under this sub-title shall be responsible; the salary of the State
entomologist and State pathologist shall be fixed by the said
board of trustees, and the said board shall likewise fix the com-
pensation of any assistant or assistants, employe or employes,
and control all expenses thereof. The expenses of said depart-
ment shall be paid out of an appropriation hereinafter provided
for, and said board of trustees are invested with all powers neces-
sary to carry into effect the provisions of this sub title; but no-
expenses shall be incurred beyond the amount appropriated.

Ibid.

54. It shall be the duty of said State entomologist and State
pathologist, their assistants and employes, under the control of
trustees of said college, to seek out and suppress all pernicious
insect pests and contagious diseases hereinbefore mentioned as
destructive to horticultural and agricultural interests of this
State, and conduct experiments when necessary to accomplish
that end.

Ibid.

55. In order to accomplish the purposes of this sub-title, the
State entomologist and the State pathologist, their assistants and
employes, or any other officer, assistant or employe appointed
by said board of trustees, are hereby authorized to enter upon
any public premises, parks, cemeteries or other premises, or
upon any land of any firm, corporation or private individual
within the State of Maryland for the purpose of inspecting,
destroying, treating or experimenting upon the insects and
diseases aforesaid. Should any insect or disease found by °said
State entomologist or State pathologist, or by any other officer
appointed by said trustees, be, in their opinion, capable of eradi-
cation without the destruction of the tree or plant, then said
officers are to treat or cause to be treated with proper remedies
and appliances all such trees, vines, shrubs, plants and grains.
Further, said State officers shall treat or have treated, in order