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apple motli, etc. Provision is made for the importation under special permit of 

 limited quantities of Stocks, cuttings, scions and buds of fruits from the countries 

 and localities above named for the purpose of keepins the country supplied with 

 uew varieties and necessary propagating stock. (Quarantine No. 44.) 



I. ENTRY FOR IMMEDIATE EXPORT 



Regulation 1, Permits Required for Eiitry for Immediate Export. The entry 

 for immediate export of any prohibited plants or plant products shall not 1)6 

 allowed except on specific permit from the Secretary of Agriculture and under 

 such conditions and at such ports of entry as shall be prescribed in the permit. 



Regulation 2. Application for Entry for Immediate Export Must Be Made in 

 .Ädvance. Persons coutemplatiug the entry for immediate export of any plant or 

 plant produet shall make application for a permit to the Federal Horticultural 

 Board. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, stating the quantity and 

 exact nature of the plants or plant products, the country and locality where 

 grown, the name and address of the foreign shipper, the port of departure, the 

 port of arrival in the United States, the port and country of final destination, 

 the name of vessel and steamship line bringing the plants or plant products to the 

 United States, the name of vessel and steamship line to which the goods are to be 

 transshipped for exportation, and the name and address of consignee. 



Regulation 3. Permits Issued on Approval of Application. On approval of an 

 application for entry for immediate export of prohibited plants and plant products 

 a permit will be issued in quadruplicate. One copy will be furnished to the appli- 

 cant for presentation to the customs officer at the port of arrival, one copy will 

 he mailed to the coUector at the port of arrival, one copy to the inspector of the 

 Department of Agriculture at the port of arrival, and the fourth will be filed 

 with the application. A separate permit will be required for each shipment offered 

 for entry for immediate export. 



Regulation 4. Notice by Perndttee of Arrival of Prohibited Plants and Plant 

 Products, Immediately upon the receipt by the permittee of authority for entry 

 for immediate export of prohibited plants and plant products he shall submit a 

 notice in duplicate to the Secretary of Agriculture, through the collector of cus- 

 toms, on forms provided for that purpose, stating the date of arrival, the number 

 of the permit, the quantity, the exact nature of the plants or plant products, the 

 country and locality where grown, port of departure, port of arrival in the 

 United States, name of vessel and steamship line and dock, name and address of 

 foreign shipper, and name and address of foreign consignee. , 



Regulation 5. llnloading for Entry for Immediate Export. Such plants or 

 plant products shall not be unloaded for entry for immediate export until a permit 

 for such entry shall have been received from the Secretary of Agriculture and 

 until a bond shall have been filed with the collector of customs, with approved 

 sureties, in double the invoice value of the property (the amount of the bond in 

 no case to be less than $1,000), conditioned on the export of such property from 

 the port of arrival within a period to be designated by the inspector of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture in Cooperation with the collector of customs. If not 

 exported within the time thus designated, the articles may be subject to seizure 

 and destruction by the collector of customs. The landing for transshipment of 

 prohibited plants and plant products shall be by such methods and under such 

 safeguards as shall be required by the inspector of the Department of Agriculture. 



Regulation 6. Notice of Exportation and Cancellation of Bond. Immediately 

 upon the exportation of such plants and plant products a notice in duplicate, on 

 form provided for that purpose, shall be furnished by the permittee to the collector 

 of customs, one copy of which shall be transmitted to the Secretary of Agriculture. 

 stating the number of the permit, the quantity, the exact nature of the plants or 



