Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-28

sects. their Larvae or pup9. 1t shall be the duty
of the Inspector of Fruit Pests, or the Quaran-
tine Guardian, to inspect fruit packages and all
trees and plants. cuttings, gratis and scions
known or believed to be infested by any insect
or insects, or the germs thereof or their eggs.
larvae or pup;e, injurious to fruit or fruit trees
or infested with any disease liable to spread
contagion, imported or brought into this State
from any foreign country or from any OF the
United states or Territories, and II, upon III
spection, such fruit or fruit packages are found
TO be infested or infected, it shall be a INSIDE
meanor to offer the same Tor sale gift, diStribu-
ton or transportation, unless they shall be first
diSin tected.
Section 3. Every person shipping fruit trees
scions, cuttings or plants from any orchard
nursery. or other place where they were grown
or produced, shall place upon or securely at
tach to each box, package, or parcel containing
such 1rult trees, sc1ons, cuttings, or plants, a
distinct mark or label, showing the name OF the
owner or shipper, and the locality where pro-
duced. And any person who shall cause to be
shipped transported, or removed from any To-
calty declared by the State Board of Horti-
culture to be infested with fruit tree or orchard
pests or infested with contagious diseases in
furious TO trees, plants or fruits, unless the
same shall have been previously disintected,
shall be guilty of Il misdemeanor Distinction
shall be to the satisfaction of the State Board of
Horticulture, or the Inspector of Fruit Pests.
When disinfected. the fact shall be stamped
upon each box, package, or separate parcel OF
trut trees, sclons, cuttings, or plants and any
person who shall cause to be shipped, transported
or removed, any such box, parcel or package,
from quarantine district or locality. not bear
ing such stamp, shall be guilty of Il misde
meanor and may be punished by fine, as pro
yided by Section of this Act Any person who
shall falsely cause such stamp to be used, or
shall initiate or counterfeit any stamp or device
used for such purpose, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor.
Section 4. It shall be the special duty of each
member of the State Board of Horticulture TO
see that tie provisions of this Act are carried
out within his respective horticultural district,
and all offenders duly punished
Section .. All fruit trees infested by any in
sect or insects their germs Larvae or pupte, or in
fected by disease known to be injurious to fruit,
or fruit trees, and liable to spread contagion,
must be cleaned or disinfected before the first
day of April, 1885, and on or before the first
day OF April OF every succeeding year there
after. All owners or occupants of land on
which fruit trees are grown, failing to comply
with the provisions of this section shall be
guilty of Il misdemean0r, and fined us provided
for III section six OF this Act. All fruit, pack
ages, trees, plants. cuttings, gratis and SciOns
that shall not be disinfected within twenty-tour
hours after notice by the Inspector of Fruit
Pests, or duly appointed Quarantine Guardian,
or any member of the Board of Horticulture,
shall be Ii bile to be proceeded against pub
lie nuisance.
Section g. ANY person or corporation violat-
ing any of the provisions of this Act shall be
deemed guilty of Il misdemeanor. and shall, on
conviction thereof DO punishable by fine of
not less than S25 nor more than 500 for every
Ofiense