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grown and guaraiiteeuig that warty disease was not known 

 to exist on the farms where the potatoes were grown ; and 

 (ii) an official certificate that no case of warty disease of potatoes 

 has been known during the twelve months preceding the 

 date of the certificate within five miles of the place where 

 the potatoes were grown. 



'• 5. Eubber plants shall not be imported into British India by sea 

 unless they are accompanied by an official certificate that the estate 

 from which the plants have originated or the individual plants are 

 free from Fomes semitostus and Sphcerostilbe repens. 



'• 6. Sugarcane shall not be imported into British India by sea unless 

 it is accompanied by an official certificate that it has been examined 

 and found free from cane borers, scale insects, Aleyrodes, root disease 

 (any form), pine apiple disease (Tkielaviopsis Ethaceticus), " Sereh " and 

 cane gunuBosis : 



Provided that canes for planting intended to be grown under the 

 personal supervision of the Government Sugarcane Expert may be 

 imported direct by such expert without such certificate. 



" 7. Coffee plants shall not be imported into British India by sea 

 from America (including the West Indies) except by the Madras 

 Department of Agriculture. 



'■ 8. Seeds of coffee, flax, bershn and cotton shall not be imported 

 by land or by sea by letter or samj^le post. 



•' 9. Coffee seeds shall not be imported into British India by sea from 

 America (including the West Indies) except by the Madras Department 

 of Agriculture. 



" 10. Flax seeds and bershn (Egyptian clover) seeds shall not be 

 imported into British India by sea, unless the consignee produces before 

 the Collector of Customs a license from a Department of Agriculture in 

 India in that behalf. 



"11. Cotton seeds shall not be imported by sea except after fumiga- 

 tion with carbon bisulphide and at a prescribed port. 



" 12. Nothing in these rules shall be deemed to apjjly to any article 

 brought by sea from one port in British India to another. [No. 520-232 

 of 1.3th June 1919.] 



E. A. MANT, 



Secretary to the Government of India. . 



