February, '13] marlatt: federal plant quarantine 137 



We have also been advised that many of the certificates of inspection 

 attached to packages are "New York" editions, but this sort of fraud 

 will be stopped under the new regulations. 



There has been very little difficulty in the matter of permits and 

 consular declarations, these features being governed directly by 

 customs officers. 



3. Failure in Notifications. — There have been a good deal of 

 omissions in the notifications required to be sent out by the person 

 taking the goods from customs and paying the duty, namely, the 

 notification to the Secretary of Agriculture and to the proper state 

 inspector. Much of this failure has been occasioned by ignorance of 

 the law on the part of the importers or brokers. The new arrangement 

 entered into with the Treasury Department requires the importer or 

 broker to transmit his notice to the Department of Agriculture through 

 the collector of customs, and this notice is made a necessary paper of 

 entry. This plan should insure in the future notification to the 

 Department of Agriculture of every lot of nursery stock removed from 

 a port of entry and will make it possible for the state inspector to 

 receive notification from this department, at least, of all imported 

 nursery stock consigned to his state, and will further be an absolute 

 check on the notification which the broker is still required to send 

 direct to each state inspector. 



4. Interstate Distribution of Imported Nursery Stock 

 -BEFORE Inspection. — The Federal law requires that imported nursery 

 stock shall not go into interstate transportation without a notification 

 of such shipment being sent to the Department of Agriculture and to 

 the proper state inspector. This applies not only to the port of entry 

 as to first destination, but also to any reshipment, unless and until 

 said stock has been inspected by some state inspector. There have 

 been a number of violations of this provision. Nursery stock has been 

 sent from the port of entry to the first consignee and properly reported 

 both to this department and to the state inspector. This first con- 

 signee, has, however, probably in ignorance of the law, in several 

 instances reshipped such stock to other states prior to its having been 

 inspected without making the proper notification. This is a violation 

 which is very difficult to prevent, and can only be checked up by the 

 reports of such reshipments by the inspectors of the states to which 

 the goods are sent. Discovery of such reshipments has been made by 

 such inspectors accidentally or under local regulations requiring the 

 reporting of arrival of all nursery stock. All instances of this kind 

 should be promptly reported to the Department of Agriculture so that 

 the question of violations can be taken up with the parties at fault and 

 a continuance thereof prevented. 



