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ficate of foreign inspection. He must also see that each package is marked 

 in accordance with Section 3 of the act. As a matter of convenience, this 

 marking should contain also the additional information called for in Section 4, 

 to avoid the trouble of re-marking before the goods can be delivered for inter- 

 state shipment. The certificate of inspection must be, and the marking 

 preferably should be on the goods before they leave the foreign port. 



On the arrival of the stock, and before shipping or removing it from the 

 port of entry, he must advise the Secretary of Agriculture and the proper 

 State inspectors in accordance with Section 2 and Regulation 8. He must 

 see that each container is marked in accordance with Section 4; that is, in 

 addition to the information in the label of entry, each container must bear 

 the name and address of the consignee at destination, where the stock is to 

 be inspected by the state, territorial or district official. 



Any person receiving imported nursery stock and reshipping it, interstate, 

 . before it has been inspected by a duly authorized state, territorial or district 

 inspector or officer, is required, prior to making such reshipment, to notify 

 the Secretary of Agriculture and the duly authorized inspector or other officer 

 of the state, territory, or district, to which the nursery stock is to be re- 

 shipped, giving the number of cases, the bale numbers and marks, the quantity 

 and kind of nursery stock, and the name and address of the consignee. If 

 possible, the permit number under which the stock was imported, and the 

 name and address of the foreign shipper should also be given. 



Failure to meet the reqiurements of the law, as outlined above, subjects 

 importers or persons making interstate shipments to the penalties fixed in 

 Section 10 of the act. 



A pamphlet entitled, "Rules and Regulations under the Plant Quarantine 

 Act: General, Including Nursery Stock," containing the regulations govern- 

 ing the importation of nursery stock into the United States and the text of 

 the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended March 4, 1913, 

 may be obtained on application to the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Federal Horticultural Board, Washington. D. C. 



NUBSEBY STOCK BY MAIL 



The following is a copy of order 6313 of Postmaster-General, dated May 

 29, 1912, amending paragraph 8, section 496 of postal laws and regulations, 

 to read as follows: 



Nursery stock, including florists' stock, trees, shrubs, plants, vines, cuttings, 

 grafts, scions, buds, bulbs and roots (which may carry injurious insects), may be 

 admitted to the mails only when accompanied by a certificate from a state or 

 government inspector to the effect that the nursery from which said nursery stock 

 is shipped has within a year been inspected and found free from injurious insects. 



TREATMENT TO BE ACCORDED TO PROHIBITED NCRSERY STOCK RECEIVED IN THE 



MAILS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES 



Office of Second Assistant Postmaster-General, Washington, June 1, 1915. 



This Department and the Department of Agriculture are in receipt frequently, 

 both directly and through postmasters, of requests from importers of nursery stock 

 that delivery be authorized of certain mail shipments of prohibited plants or plant 

 products. It is understood that pending the receipt by such importers of replies 



