LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

inafter provided for, and that said board of trnstees be invested
with all powers necessary to carry into effect the provisions of
this Act ; but no expenses shall be incurred beyond the amount
appropriated.
54. That it shall be the duty of said State Entomologist and

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State Pathologist, their .assistants and employes, under the con-
trol of Trustees of said College, to seek out and suppress all
pernicious insect pests and contagious diseases hereinbefore
mentioned as destructive to horticultural and agricultural in-
terests of this State, and conduct experiments when necessary
to accomplish that end.
55. That in order to accomplish the purposes of this Act, the

Duty of
officers.

State Entomologist and the State Pathologist, their assistants.
and employes, or any other officer, assistant or employe
appointed by said board of trustees, are hereby authorized
to enter upon any public premises, parks, cemeteries or other
premises, or upon any land of any firm, corporation or private
individual within the State of Maryland for the purpose of
inspecting, destroying, treating or experimenting upon the
insects and diseases aforesaid. Should any insect or disease
found by said State Entomologist or State Pathologist, or by
any other officer appointed by said trustees, be, in their opin-
ion, capable of eradication without the destruction of the tree
or plant, then said officers are to treat or cause to be treated
with proper remedies and appliances all such trees, vines,
shrubs, plants and grains. Further, said State officers shall
treat or have treated, in order to prevent the dissemination of
the aforesaid insects or diseases, any and all suspicious trees,
vines, shrubs, plants and grains found to be in a dangerous
proximity to those infested as aforesaid.
56. That should any of the officers aforesaid, through their

Authority
given.

assistants and employes, or by any notification whatsoever, find
any fruit trees, vines, shrubs, plants or grains, infested or dis-
eased with the aforesaid insects or diseases, the aforesaid officers
shall mark or tag in some conspicuous way, all trees, vines,
shrubs, plants or grains infested with the aforesaid diseases and
shall give notice in writing to the owner or owners, tenants or
person in charge of such premises of the condition thereof,
and thereupon, if such person or persons so notified shall not
within ten (10) days after notification, destroy or treat the same
in accordance with regulations and rules of said trustees, a
copy of which will be sent on application to any person, then
said trustees shall, through their officers, assistants or employes,
destroy or treat all such trees, plants, vines, shrubs and grains
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Mark
infested
trees, etc.