1342 INSPECTIONS. [ART. 48

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 contained 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, with-
out 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 transportation company, firm or person shall
notify the State entomologist or State pathologist at the Mary-
land 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, bole, 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, bade 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
this sub-title have been violated, said justice shall order said
agent or consignee to return such carload, box, bale or package
of trees, plants, shrubs, vines, buds or cuttings immediately to
the shipper or consignor unless said consignee or agent of the
consignor at his expense shall forthwith have said nursery stock
examined by the State entomologist and the State pathologist
of this State, and said officers certify to such justice of the
peace that said nursery stock is apparently free from the insects
and diseases mentioned herein and tag every such carload, box,
bale and package inspected by said officers, with their certifi-
cate of inspection, and if said agent or consignee shall fail to
have said nursery stock examined by said State officials or fail
to return such carload, box, bale or package thereof, then said
justice of the peace shall order and direct the constable or
sheriff to burn and destroy all such trees, plants, shrubs, vines,
buds or cuttings that have been shipped into this State in
violation of this sub-title.

1898, ch. 289, sec. 61.

63. Whenever any agent of a transportation company, firm
or person shall receive a carload, box, bale or package of trees,
plants, shrubs, vines, buds or cuttings, without a certificate