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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 289.
AN ACT to repeal sections 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58
of Article XLYI1I of the Code of Pnblic General Laws,
title "Inspections," sub-title "Trees and Nursery Stock," as
designated by Chapter 290 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1896, and to re-enact the same
with amendments, under a new sub-title, to be known as
"State Horticultural Department," and to add thereto eight
new sections, to be designated 59, 59 A, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 and
65, providing for the protection of the horticultural interests
of the State by the suppression and extermination of the
San Jose scale, peach-yellow, pear-blight and other injurious
insect pests and plant diseases, and to create the offices of
"State Entomologist," "State Pathologist" and "State Horti-
culturist," and to appropriate a sum of money therefor.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repeal

land, That sections 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58 of Article
XLVIII of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Inspec-
tions," sub title "Trees and Nursery Stock," as passed by the
General Assembly of Maryland, session 1896, chapter 290, be
and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted to read as
follows :
51. That a State Horticultural Department be established

State horti-
cultural de-
partment
established.

for the State of Maryland ; that its purpose is to suppress and
eradicate the San Jose scale, peach-yellow, pear-blight and
other injuriously dangerous insect pests and plant diseases
throughout the State of Maryland.
52. That the Professor of Entomology, the Professor of

Officers.

Yegetable Pathology, and the Professor of Horticulture of the
Maryland Agricultural College and Experiment Station shall
be the State Entomologist, State Pathologist and State Horti-
culturalist, respectively.
53. That the said Horticultural Department shall be under

Under whose
control.

the control of the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Agricul-
tural College and Experiment Station, to whom the officers
created under this Act shall be responsible ; that the salary of
the State Entomologist and State Pathologist shall be fixed by
the said board of trustees, and the said board shall likewise fix
the compensation of any assistant or assistants, employe or
employes, and control all expenses thereof. That the expenses
of said department shall be paid put of an appropriation here-