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	the contagious disease known as the "Yellows," or to offer for sale
	or shipment, or to sell or ship io others any such trees or the fruit
	thereof in any form, and any person convicted before any justice	Yellows.
	of the peace, of selling or shipping said trees or the fruit thereof
	in any form, knowing the same to be so diseased, shall be fined a
	sum not exceeding ten dollars and costs, or upon failure to pay
	the same, shall be confined in the county jail for a term not ex-
	ceeding thirty days.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the trees and fruit so infected,
	shall be subject to destruction as public nuisances as hereinafter
	provided, and no damages shall be awarded in any court in the
	State, or by any justice of the peace thereof, for entering upon	Nuisance.
	premises and destroying such diseased trees and fruit, if done in
	accordance with the provisions of this act, 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 the same, or cause it to be destroyed.
	SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Wes-
	tern Maryland Fruit Growers association of Washington County,
	to appoint each year three competent members thereof, for each
	election district in said county, or for such of said election dis-	Associa-
	tricts as said association may deem fit, to act as commissioners,	tion.
	who shall hold said office during the year following their appoint-
	ment, or during the pleasure of said association.
	SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of said
	commissioners immediately after their appointment to give notice
	thereof in such newspaper of said 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 respective election 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 dis-
	tinguishing mark shall be placed upon said diseased trees by said
	commissioners, or by some one directed by them, and the owner	Notice.
	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 or
	otherwise, the trees so marked within five 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 control it is
	found, to immediately destroy the same or cause it to be destroyed.
	SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That whenever any person shall re-
	fuse 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 com-
	missioners to lodge a complaint before one of the justices of the