382 INSPECTIONS. [ART. 48

1892, ch. 639.

69. It shall be the duty of said "Tree and Fruit Inspectors"
immediately after their appointment to give notice thereof in
such newspapers of their county as they may select; and it shall
be their duty whenever it comes to their notice that the disease
known as the "yellows" exists in any trees or fruit in their respec-
tive districts to proceed forthwith to examine or cause to be
examined the trees or fruit supposed to be infected, and if the
disease is found after such examination to exist, a distinguishing
mark shall be placed upon said diseased trees by said "Tree and
Fruit Inspectors, " or by some one directed by them, and the
owner thereof notified personally or by a written notice left at
his usual place of residence, or by leaving the notice with the
person in charge of the trees or fruit, or in whose possession the
same may be, said notice to contain a simple statement of the
facts as found to exist, with an order to effectually, remove and
destroy by fire the tree so marked within fifteen days from the
date of the service of said notice, and in case of fruit so infected,
such notice shall require the person in whose possession or con-
trol it is found to immediately destroy the same or cause it to be
destroyed by fire.

Ibid.

70. Whenever any person shall refuse or neglect to comply
with the order to destroy the trees or fruit so ordered to be
destroyed, it shall be the duty of said "Tree and Fruit Inspectors"
to lodge a complaint before one of the justices of the peace of
the county, who shall forthwith summon the owner, or other per-
son so neglecting or refusing, and upon being satisfied, after an
examination into the facts, of the existence of the said disease in
the trees or fruit as charged by said "Tree and Fruit Inspectors, "
it shall be the duty of said justice of the peace to forthwith issue
an order to said "Tree and Fruit Inspectors, "or one of them, or
to a constable of said county, to destroy said trees or fruit; and
for the purpose of destroying the same it shall be lawful for said
"Tree and Fruit Inspectors" or constable to enter upon any prem-
ises in said county, and seize said diseased trees or fruit wherever
found, and have the same destroyed by fire.