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Other plant products specified in the said promulgation from the country 

 and locality therein named, regardless of the use for whicn the s;xme is 

 intended, is hereby prohibited ; and until the withdrawal of the said 

 promulgation by the Secretary of Agriculture, and nothwithstanding 

 that such class of nursery stock, or other class of plants, fruits, vege- 

 tables, roots, bulbs, seeds, or other plant products be accompanied Dy 

 a certificate of inspection from the country of importation, no person shall 

 import or of?er for entry into the United States from any country or 

 locality specified in such promulgation, any of the class of nursery 

 stock or of other class of plants, fruits, vegetables, root!--, bulbs, seeds 

 or other plant products named therein, regardless of the use for which 

 the same is intended; provided, that before the Secretary of Agriculture 

 shall promulgate his determination that it is necessary to forbid the 

 importation into the United States of the articles named in this section 

 he shall, after due notice to the interested parties, give a public hearing, 

 under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe, at which hearing 

 any interested party may appear and be heard, either in person or by 

 attorney ; provided further, that the quarantine provisions of this section, 

 as applying to the white-pine blister rust, potato wart and the Mediter 

 ranean Fruit Fly, shall become effective upon the passage of this Act " 



Section 8 : "That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and 

 directed to quarantine any state, territory, or district of the United 

 States, or any portion thereof, vvhen he shall determine the fact that a 

 dangerous plant disease or insect infestation, new to or not theretofore 

 widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the United 

 States, exists in such state or territory or district ; and the Secretary of 

 Agriculture is directed to give notice of the establishment of such quar- 

 antine to common carriers doing business in or through such quaran- 

 tined area, and shall publish in such newspapers in the quarantined 

 area as he shall select notice of the establishment of quarantine. 

 That no person shall ship or offer for shipment to any common carrier, 

 nor shall any common carrier receive for transportation or transport, 

 nor shall any person carry or transport frorri any quarantined state 

 or territory or district of the United States, or from any quarantined 

 portion thereof, into or through any other state or territory or district, 

 any class of nursery stock or any other class of plants, fruit, vegetables, 

 roots, bulbs, seeds, or other plant products specified in the notice of 

 quarantine except as hereinafter provided. That it shall be unlawful 

 to move, or allow to be moved, any class of nursery stock, or any other 

 class of plants, fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, or other plant 

 products specified in the notice of quarantine hereinbefore provided, and 



