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378 INSPECTIONS. TART. 48
and be added to the funds herein provided for carrying out the
provisions of this sub-title.
1898, ch. 289.
59 A. All trees, plants, vines, shrubs, buds or cuttings, com-
monly 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.
Ibid.
60. 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 nursery-man, broker, dealer, agent or other person in this
State, every carload, bale, box or package thereof shall be
plainly labeled on the outside with the name of the consignor, 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 con-
tained 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 consignor, and said agent of the transpor-
tation company, firm or person, shall notify the State entomolo-
gist or State pathologist at the Maryland Agricultural College,
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 carload, 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
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