938                               Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 342

tice of the peace] court shall order and direct the constable or sheriff
to burn and destroy all trees, plants, shrubs, vines, buds or cuttings
that have been shipped into this State in violation of this subtitle.

83.   Same—Failure to notify [State Entomologist or Pathologist]
Secretary of arrival of nursery stock; condemnation of diseased
nursery stock.

Whenever any agent of a transportation company, firm or person
shall receive a carload, box, bale or package of trees, plants, shrubs,
vines, buds or cuttings, without a certificate attached, as provided
for in Section 90 of this subtitle, and shall fail to notify the [State
Entomologist or State Pathologist] Secretary of Agriculture of this
fact immediately upon the arrival of such nursery stock, and before
delivering the same to the consignee, said agent of the transporta-
tion company, firm or person shall be adjudged guilty of a misde-
meanor, and shall upon conviction before a [justice of the peace]
court be fined a sum not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than
one hundred dollars ($100) and costs of prosecution for each and
every offense, and stand committed until such fine and costs are
paid [; and the fines so collected shall be paid to the trustees of
said college to be added to the funds herein provided for carrying
out the provisions of this subtitle]. If any nurseryman, dealer or
agent sell, ship or deliver any trees, plants, shrubs or vines into
or in this State, which are infected with San Jose scale, peach
yellow, pear blight or other injurious diseases, and upon examina-
tion by the [State Pathologist, State Entomologist or their assist-
ants] Secretary of Agriculture, are condemned by being so infected,
the said trees, plants, vines and shrubs shall be destroyed, AND THE
NURSERYMAN, DEALER OR AGENT SHALL FORFEIT THE
VALUE OF SUCH STOCK and shall not collect the same from the
purchaser or consignee.

84.   Reciprocal agreements as to nursery stock.

The [State Board] Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized
and empowered to make reciprocity agreements with other states
of the United States with respect to the shipment of nursery stock
into those states that enter into such agreements, whereby Maryland
nursery stock may be received on the same basis as the nursery
stock of other states is received in Maryland under the provisions
of this subtitle.

85.   Reports of [State Entomologist, Pathologist and Horticulturist]
Secretary—In general.

The [State Entomologist, State Pathologist and State Horticul-
turist] Secretary of Agriculture shall submit annually a written re-
port on or before the first day of February of [their] his inspections
and investigations to the [board of trustees, which shall be trans-
mitted to the] Governor of the State and the General Assembly,
which report shall be [and] published as are the reports of other
State organizations and distributed among the people of the State as
bulletins of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station.

[86. Same—Report to date of passage of subtitle.

The report of the present State Entomologist, including the work
done by him up to the date of the passage of this subtitle, shall be