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attached, as provided for in section 62 of this sub-title, and
shall fail to notify the State entomologist or State pathologist
of this fact immediately .upon the arrival of ,such nursery
stock, and before delivering the same to the consignee, said
agent of the transportation company, firm or person shall be
adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction
before a justice of the peace be fined a sum not less than ten
dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) and
costs of prosecution for each and every offense, and stand
committed until such fine and costs are paid; and the fines so
collected shall be paid to the trustees of said college to be
added to the funds herein provided for carrying out the provi-
sions of this sub-title. If any nurseryman, dealer or agent
sell, ship or deliver any trees, plants, shrubs or vines into or in
this State, which are infected with San Jose scale, peach-
yellow, pear-blight or other injurious diseases, and upon
examination by the State pathologist, State entomologist or
their assistants, are condemned by being so infected, the said
trees, plants, vines and shrubs shall be destroyed, and the
nurseryman, dealer or agent shall forfeit the value of such
stock, and shall not collect the same from the purchaser or
consignee.

1898, ch. 289, sec. 62.

64. The State entomologist, State pathologist and State hor-
ticulturist shall submit annually a written report on or before
the first day of February of their inspections and investiga-
tions to the board of trustees, which shall be transmitted to the
governor of the State and the general assembly, and published
as are the reports of other State organizations and distributed
among the people of the State as bulletins of the Maryland
Agricultural Experiment Station.

Ibid. sec. 63.

65. The report of the present State entomologist, including
the work done by him up to the date of the passage of this
sub-title, shall be published and distributed as indicated and
provided for in section 64, as the first annual report of the
Maryland State entomologist.

Ibid. sec. 64.

66. The sum of eight thousand dollars annually is hereby
appropriated in order to carry out the provisions of this sub-
title and properly provide for the above described inspections ;