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missioner that financial assistance be withdrawn as of Septem- 

 ber 1, 1912. 



Respectfully submitted, 



W, M. GiFFARD, Chairman ; 

 Albert Waterhouse, 

 j. m. dowsett, 

 Committee on Entomology, 

 Board of Agriculture and Forestry, T. H. 



Letter from President. 



Honolulu, September 9, 1912. 



To the Commissioners of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry, 

 Honolulu. 



Gentlemen : — I have to report that the recent United States 

 Congress enacted a Federal law to regulate the importation into 

 any State or Territory of any nursery stock and other plant 

 products, to permit and regulate the movement of fruits, plants 

 and vegetables therefrom and to establish and maintain quaran- 

 tine districts for plant diseases and insect pests. 



I am informed that this new Federal quarantine law will per- 

 mit the continuance of the present exportation of bananas and 

 pines to mainland ports, providing that these fruits undergo the 

 customary inspection before shipment and are found to be free 

 from attack of insect pests. As regards other fruits and vege- 

 tables which at present are not allowed export to coast ports, it 

 has been intimated by the representatives of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture that if after careful investigation certain 

 varieties of these are demonstrated to be free from attack or in- 

 festation, the quarantine on such will be lifted. 



I am personally informed by Mr. C. L. Marlatt, the assistant 

 chief of the Bureau of Entomology and chairman of the Federal 

 Horticultural Board, that he has recommended to the Secretary 

 of Agriculture that the inspection of bananas and pines intended 

 for export to Pacific Coast ports be placed in charge of Dr. E. A. 

 Back as soon as the quarantine has been officially promulgated. 

 The promulgation will be in effect on or before September 15, 

 and in the meantime will be continued as at present by represen- 

 tatives of the California State Horticultural Board and of the 

 Marketing Division of the Territorial Bureau of Immigration, 

 Labor and Statistics. After the above date the aforesaid Terri- 

 torial and California State officials will no longer, as such, at- 

 tend to, or assist in, the inspection of exportations of fruits and 

 vegetables to the mainland. 



I am further informed by Air. Marlatt, as chairman of the 

 Federal Horticultural Board, that he will recommend to the Sec- 



