ART. 48] TREE AND FRUIT INSPECTORS——THE YELLOWS. 381

shall be made during the fiscal year ending September first,
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.

Tree and Fruit Inspectors. -The Yellows.

1892, ch. 639.

66. 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 or nectarine tree infected with the
contagious disease 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, 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; provided, the provisions of this sub-
title shall not apply to Washington county.

Ibid.

67. The trees and fruit so infected shall be subject to destruc-
tion 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.

Ibid.

68. 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 commissioners 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.