LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

stream to the public road from Chestertown to Fairlee;
then with that public road to the public road from Aldridge
gate to Lankford; then with that public road and the public
road from Lankford to Price's Mill to the headwaters of the
West York of Lankford bay, then down and with said bay,
and up Chester river to the beginning, with the voting place
at Pomona.

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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That a register of voters for
each of said districts numbers six and seven, shall at once be
appointed by the Governor of Maryland, as provided by law,
and their successors shall be appointed from time to time at
the time, and as other registers of voters for Kent county are
appointed.

Register;of
voters.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2d, 1896.

CHAPTER 290.

AN ACT to add to Article forty-eight of the Code of Public
General Laws, title " Inspections," a new sub-title, to be
known as " Trees and Nursery Stock," and seven new sec-
tions thereunder, to be designated " Sections 51, 52, 53, 54,
55, 56 and 57," providing for the examination of trees,
plants, vines and nursery stock, and to exterminate the San
Jose scale, rosette, yellows and other diseases and insects.

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That there shall be added to Article forty-eight of the
Code of Public General Laws, title " Inspections," a new sub-
title, to be known as "Trees and Nursery Stock," and seven
new sections thereunder, to be designated "Sections 51, 52, 53,
54, 55, 56, 57."

New sections.

51. The Governor of Maryland shall, once in every two
years, designate and appoint one of the professors at the Mary-
land Agricultural College, State entomologist, who shall serve
without pay, other than that lie may receive as professor at
said college, but whose expenses shall be paid, as hereinafter
provided, whose duty it shall be to inspect any and all nurse-
ries in the State of Maryland, where any trees, plants, vines
or other nursery stock is grown, between the first day of each

State.ento-
mologlst.