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Regulation 3. Application for Permits for Iniportation of Brooni Com. Per- 

 sons contemplating the iniportation of broom corn shall first make application 

 to the Federal Horticultural Board for a permit, stating in the application tlie 

 name and address of the exporter, the country and locality wliere grown, the port 

 of entry, and the name and address of the importer in the United States to whom 

 the permit should be sent. 



Applications for permits should be made in advance of the proposed ship- 

 ments ; but if, through no fault of the importer, a shipment should arrivc before 

 a permit is received, the importation will be held in customs eustody, at the risk 

 and expense of the importer, for a period not exceeding 20 days pending the 

 receipt of the permit. 



Applications may be made by telegraph, in which case the Information re- 

 quired above must be given. 



Regulation 4. Issuance of Permits. On approval by the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture of an application for the importation of broom corn, a permit will be 

 issued in quadruplicate. One copy will be furnished to the applicant for presenta- 

 tion to the customs officer at the port of entry, one copy will be mailed to the 

 collector of customs, and one to the inspector of the Department of Agriculture at 

 the port of entry, and the fourth will he filed with the application. 



A separate permit will be required for each importation, and these permits 

 will be issued for the ports of Boston, New York, San Francisco and Seattle, and 

 such other ports as may from time to time be approved by the Federal Horticul- 

 tural Board. The permit will be addressed to the collector of customs at the port 

 for which it is issued. 



Regulation 5. Disinfection a Condition of Entry. All importations of broom 

 corn shall be suliject, as a condition of entry, to such disinfection as shall be 

 required by tlie inspector of the Department of Agriculture. Should such broom 

 corn, however, prove to be so infested with plant diseases or insect pests that in 

 the judgment of the inspector it can not be freed from such infestation by disin- 

 fection or other treatment, the entire shipment shall be refused entry. 



When entry under disinfection is permitted, the broom corn will be delivered 

 to the permittee for disinfection upon the filing with the collector of customs of 

 a bond in the amount of .$5,000, or in an amount equal to the invoice value, if such 

 value be less than $5,000. with approved sureties, the condition of which shall be 

 that the broom corn shall be disinfected under the supervision of an inspector of 

 the Department of Agriculture; that no bale or other Container thereof shall be 

 broken, opened or removed from the port of entry unless and until a written 

 notice is given to such collector by an inspector of the Department of Agriculture 

 that the broom corn has been properly disinfected. and that the importation shall 

 be redelivered to the collector of customs within 40 days after arrival at the 

 port of entry. 



Regulation 6. Notice of Arrival by Permittee. Immediately upon arrival of 

 the broom corn at the port of entry the permittee shall submit in duplicate notice 

 to the Secretary of Agriculture. through the collector of customs, on forms pro- 

 vided for that purpose, stating the number of the permit. date of entry. name of 

 ship or vessel, the country and locality where grown, name of the foreign shipper, 

 number of bales and marks and numbers on bales, the port of entry, and the 

 name of the importer or broker at the port of entry. 



Regulation 7. Importations by the United States Department of Agriculture 

 Permitted. These regulations shall not apply to the importation by the United 

 States Department of Agriculture of broom corn for experimentat or scientific 

 purposes. 



The above rules and regulations are liereby adopted, and shall be in force 

 until further notice. 



E. T. aiEREDITH. 



February 21, 1920. Secretary of Agriculture. 



