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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

other injurious insect or disease; whenever any trees, plants or
vines are shipped into this State without such certificate plainly
fixed on the outside of such package, the fact may be reported
to any justice of the peace of this State, and such justice shall
issue a summons for the consignee of such package, and the
agent of the consignor, if he be known, to appear before him
on a certain day to be therein named, to show cause w'hy such
trees, plants or vines should not be seized as being in violation
of the provisions of this act, and on trial thereof, if said
justice is satisfied that the provisions of this act have been
violated, said justice shall order said agent or consignee to
return said packages of trees, plants or vines immediately to
the shipper or consignor, unless said consignee or agent shall
forthwith have said trees, plants or vines examined by the
State entomologist of this State, and he certify to such justice
of the peace that the said trees, plants or vines are free from
all insect and disease; and if said agent or consignee shall fail
to have such nursery stock examined by the State entomologist,
or fail to return such packages to the shipper or consignor
thereof, then said justice of the peace shall order and direct
the constable or sheriff to burn and destroy all such trees,
plants and vines as have been shipped into this State in viola-
tion of law.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2d, 1896.

CHAPTER 291.

AN ACT to repeal Section 216 of Article 20, Public Local
Laws, title "Somerset County," as amended by the Act of
1894, Chapter 578, and to re-enact the same with amend-
ments.

Repeal.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 216 of Article 20, Public Local Laws, title
"Somerset County," as amended by the Act of 1894, chapter
578, be repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read
as follows :

When taxes
In arrears.

216. That from and after the first day of January in each
year, taxes shall be deemed to be in arrears, and interest shall
be charged and collected on all taxes not then paid, and as soon