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to employ men qualified for their respective positions; to pro-
cure the requisite facilities and equipment necessary for the
proper performance of the duties herein imposed, and to offer
means of support for investigation in addition to the inspec-
tion work of the State officers, and the dissemination of infor-
mation that will promote the horticultural and agricultural
interests of this State.

1898, ch. 289, sec. 65.

67. The comptroller is hereby authorized to issue his war-
rant upon the treasurer of the State for the said sum of eight
thousand dollars annually out of any funds not otherwise
appropriated; said sum of money shall be payable to the
Maryland Agriculural College on or before the first of October
of each fiscal year.

Tree and Fruit Inspectors—The Yellows.

1892, ch. 639, sec. 1. 1902, ch. 148, sec. 66.

68. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or allow to
be and remain on his lands or premises, in the State of Mary-
land, any peach, almond, apricot, nectarine or other tree
infected with the contagious disease known as the Yellows, or
to offer for sale or shipment, or _sto 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, or after he shall have been notified thereof by
an inspector, 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.

1892, ch. 639, sec. 2.

69. The trees and fruit, so infected shall be subject to
destruction 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.