OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR, 697' 



futures act; regulations under the cotton standards act and the 

 food products inspection hiw; regulations governing the preparation, 

 sale, barter, exchange, and shipment of viruses, serums, toxins, etc., 

 and amendments thereto; regulations governing importation of pure- 

 bred animals and amendments thereto; proclamations exempting 

 certain countries from the prohibition of section 306, title 3, of the 

 tariff act of 1922; regulations controlling the importation of domestic 

 livestock and other animals; regulations providing for the appraise- 

 ment of tuberculous animals; regulations governing meat inspection; 

 regulations for the enforcement of the food and drugs act, the tea 

 inspection act, and the United States warehouse act; the adminis- 

 tration of the Center Market; amendments to the migratory bird 

 treaty act regulations, and the regulations promulgated under the 

 Alaska ^ame law, the Alaska fur law, and the United States grain 

 standards act ; and numerous amendments to the fiscal and adminis- 

 trative regulations. Orders for the establishment of plant and ani- 

 mal quarantines and for the revocation and suspension of licenses of 

 grain inspectors were examined as to their legal sufficiency. Aid 

 was given the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in the preparation 

 of cooperative agreements under the food products inspection law. 

 Assistance was also given in the drafting of tentative regulations 

 and the establishment of grades under the naval stores act. 



Assistance was given in drafting the naval stores act (42 Stat. 

 1435) ; the act regulating the importation of the adult honeybee (42 

 Stat. 833).; the grain futures act (42 Stat. 998) ; and the United States 

 cotton standards act (42 Stat. 1517). Assistance was also rendered 

 in the preparation of the department's reports upon various bills 

 referred to it by committees of Congress having them in charge. 

 Among the bills reported upon were a number affecting the national 

 forests, one for promoting and encouraging agriculture by divesting 

 trains of their interstate character in certain cases (H. R. 14167, 

 Sixty-seventh Congress), another authorizing the registration of cer- 

 tain seed and for other purposes (S. 3880, Sixty-seventh Congress), 

 another providing for the reimbursement of J. B. Glanville and others 

 for losses and damages sustained by them through the shipping of 

 cattle carrying the infection of splenetic fever from Texas into Kan- 

 sas during the year 1919 (S. 854, Sixty-seventh Congress), and one 

 authorizing arrests for violation of the laws applicable to the national 

 forests and protecting national-forest officers in the execution of 

 their duties (S. 3764, Sixty-seventh Congress). 



Six claims involving damage to privately owned personal property 

 resulting from alleged negligence of department employees were 

 considered under the act of December 28, 1922. 



Claims of the department in a number of cases were prepared and 

 filed in bankruptcy proceedings pending in various sections of the 

 United States. 



Much time and attention were devoted to the very serious situa- 

 tion gromng out of resistance to the tick-eradication work being 

 conducted by the department in cooperation with the State of 

 Georgia in the southern part of that State. This resistance culmi- 

 nated in the killing of one and the serious wounding of another of 

 the department's employees. It seemed for a time that the guilty 

 parties would entirely escape prosecution and certainly punishment. 

 By cooperation with the United States attorney in that district and 



