228 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



A NATIONAL ACT. 



[Public — No. 234.] 



An Act To prohibit importation or interstate transportation of insect 

 pests, and the use of the United States mails for that purpose. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 United States of America in Congress assembled, That no railroad, 

 steamboat, express, stage, or other transportation company shall know- 

 ingly transport from one State or Territory into any other State or 

 Territory, or from the District of Columbia into a State or Territory, 

 or from a State or Territory into the District of Columbia, or from 

 a foreign country into the United States, the gypsy moth, brown-tail 

 moth, leopard moth, plum curculio, hop plant-louse, boll weevil, or 

 any of them in a live state, or other insect in a live state which is 

 notoriously injurious to cultivated crops, including vegetables, field crops, 

 bush fruits, orchard trees, forest trees, or shade trees ; or the eggs, 

 pupse, or larvae of any insect injurious as aforesaid, except when shipped 

 for scientific purposes under the regulations hereinafter provided for ; 

 nor shall any person remove from one State or Territory into another 

 State or Territory, or from a foreign country into the United States, or 

 from a State or Territory into the District of Columbia, or from the 

 District of Columbia into any State or Territory, except for scientific 

 purposes under the regulations hereinafter provided for, the gypsy 

 moth, brown-tail moth, leopard moth, plum curculio, hop plant-louse, 

 boll weevil, or any of them in a live state, or other insect in a live state 

 which is notoriously injurious to cultivated crops, including vegetables, 

 field crops, bush fruits, orchard trees, forest trees, or shade trees ; or 

 the eggs, pupse, or larvae of any insect injurious as aforesaid. 



Sec. 2. That any letter, parcel, box, or other package containing the 

 gypsy moth, brown-tail moth, leopard moth, plum curulio, hop plant- 

 louse, boll weevil, or any of them in a live state, or other insect in a 

 live state which is notoriously injurious to cultivated crops, including 

 vegetables, field crops, bush fruits, orchard trees, forest trees, or 

 shade trees, or any letter, parcel, box, or package which contains the 

 6gSS> pupae, or larvae of any insect injurious as aforesaid, whether 

 sealed as first-class matter or not, is hereby declared to be nonmailable 

 matter, except when mailed for scientific purposes under the regula- 

 tions hereinafter provided for, and shall not be conveyed in the mails, 

 nor delivered from any post-office, nor by any letter carrier, except 

 when mailed for scientific purposes under the regulations hereinafter 

 provided for; and any person who shall knowingly deposit, or cause to 

 be deposited, for mailing or delivery, anything declared by this section 

 to be nonmailable matter, or cause the same to be taken from the 

 mails for the purpose of retaining, circulating, or disposing of, or of 

 aiding in the retention, circulation, or disposition of the same shall, 

 for each and every offense, be fined, upon conviction thereof, not more 

 than five thousand dollars or imprisoned at hard labor not more than 

 five years, or both, at the discretion of the court. Provided, That 



