ART. 48] HORTICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. 1339

ment shall be paid out of an appropriation hereinafter provided
for, and said board of trustees are invested with all powers
necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this sub-title; but
no expenses shall be incurred beyond the amount appropriated.

1896, ch. 290, sec. 54. 1898, ch. 289.

55. 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. sec. 55.

56. In order to accomplish the purposes of this sub-title
the State entomologist and the State pathologist, their assist-
ants 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 eradication 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 to prevent the dissemination of the afore-
said insects or diseases, any and all suspicious trees, vines,
shrubs, plants and grains found to be in a dangerous proximity
to those infested as aforesaid.

Ibid, sec 66.

57. Should any of the officers aforesaid through their
assistants and employes or by any notification whatsoever find
any fruit trees, vines, shrubs, plants or grains infested or dis-
eased with the aforesaid insects or diseases, the aforesaid
officers shall mark or tag in some conspicuous way all trees,
vines, shrubs, plants or grains infested with the aforesaid dis-
eases and shall give notice in writing to the owner or owners,
tenants or persons in charge of such premises of the condition