S96 ANIJTJAL BEPORTS OF DEPASTMENT OP AGEICULIURE. 



the laws of the Province of Manitoba, Canada, is not a qualified 

 applicant for a permit under the provisions of the act of February 

 15, 1901 (31 Stat., 790), or a grant under the act of February 1, 

 1905 (33 Stat., 628), for a right of way within the Washington 

 National Forest for use in connection with the development of hydro- 

 electric power in connection with the operation of mining claims 

 held by it. 



THE PLANT QUARANTINE ACT (37 Stat. 315). 



Fifteen cases were reported to the Attorney General, 14 of which 

 are pending, one having been closed on jDayment of a fine of $25. 

 Nine cases pending at the close of the fiscal year 1916 have not been 

 disposed of, making a total of 23 cases now pending in various 

 stages of prosecution. 



A number of proposed orders of the Secretary of Agriculture to 

 establish, and of regulations to enforce, quarantines under the law 

 were examined as to their legal form and sufficiency. 



At the request of the Federal Horticultural Board there was 

 drafted, for inclusion in the appropriation bill for the fiscal year 

 1918, an item for an emergency appropriation on account of the 

 existence of the pink boll worm of cotton in Mexico, and conferring 

 upon the Secretary authority to take necessary action to prevent 

 the introduction thereof into the United States and to stamp out 

 any infestation that may be found in the United States on account of 

 the shipment of 500 carloads of cotton seed into Texas. A proposed 

 amendment to section 8 of the plant quarantine act was drafted, and 

 later enacted by Congress, to eliminate the necessity of a finding by 

 the Secretary as a condition precedent to a quarantine of any State 

 that a dangerous plant disease or insect infestation exists therein, and 

 also to confer additional authority with regard to quarantine on 

 account of the gypsy and brown-tail moths. 



COURT DECISION OF INTEREST. 



In Daigle v. United States (237 Fed. 159), involving a shij^ment 

 of 22 barrels of potatoes from Daigle Island, in the St. John River, 

 within the Dominion of Canada, to Fort Kent, Me., in violation of 

 the quarantine promulgated by the department on December 22, 

 1913, against the importation of potatoes from the Dominion of 

 Canada, Newfoundland, and other countries, because affected with 

 potato disease, it was held by the Circuit Court of Appeals that since 

 they were imported contrary to law the potatoes, as well as the 

 vehicles and animals used in transporting them, were subject to 

 forfeiture. 



THE FEDERAL VOCATIONAL-EDUCATION ACT (39 Stat. 929). 



In response to your request, as a member of the Federal Board for 

 Vocational Education, created by the act of Congress, approved 

 February 23, 1917, known as the Federal vocational-education act, 

 there was drafted for transmission to the governors of the several 

 States, a suggested bill, with alternate clauses to meet varying con- 

 ditions, for enactment by any State, accepting the provisions of the 



