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4. (1) From and after the second day of July, 1915, the importation or landing 

 in these islands of potatoes from the above mentioned infected countries is pro- 

 hibited. 



(2) No potatoes will be permitted to be imported into these islands from 

 any state or district in the United States of America which shall be placed in 

 quarantine by the Federal Horticultural Board, unless each consignment is accom- 

 panied by a certificate from a duly recognized Government authority that such 

 potatoes are free from any suspicion of any contamination from powdery scab or 

 black wart, and each package shall have plainly marked thereon or attached thereto 

 the number of the certificate under which it is so certified. 



(3) No potatoes shall be permitted to be imported into these islands from the 

 Province of Nova Scotia, in the Dominion of Canada, unless each consignment is 

 accompanied by a Provincial or Federal Certificate that such potatoes are free 

 from any suspicion of any contamination from powdery scab or black wart, and 

 each package shall have plainly marked thereon or attached thereto the number 

 of the certificate under which it is so certified. 



FIELD INSPECTION IN COUNTRY OF ORIGIN 



5. (1) No seed potatoes will be permitted to be imported into these islands 

 unless the importer shall satisfy the Inspector or Assistant Inspectors that the 

 field in which they were grown has been certified by a duly authorized representa- 

 tive or representatives of the Board of Agriculture for Bermuda to be free from 

 any appreciable quantity of disease, degenerate or low-yielding plants such as would 

 in the opinion of the said representative or representatives prejudice the value of 

 the potatoes for seed purposes. 



(2) Condemned seed stock shall not be imported for any purpose, and any 

 such condemned seed stock which may have been imported or landed here shall be 

 destroyed or shipped out of the Colony at the discretion of the Board. 



CANKER WART DISEASE., ETC. 



6. Any barrel or package found to contain one or more potatoes with canker 

 wart or powdery scab, or any other disease, the presence of which in these islands 

 would be likely in the opinion of the Board of Agriculture to seriously prejudice 

 the interests of the potato growers of these islands shall, together with all its 

 contents, be destroyed or dealt with as the Board shall determine. Any barrel or 

 package found to contain any potato insect pest, or any other potato pest, in any 

 stage of its life history, that in the opinion of the Board of Agriculture is likely 

 to seriously prejudice the interests of the potato growers of these islands, shall 

 together with all its contents be destroyed or otherwise dealt with as the Board 

 shall determine. 



SMALL POTATOES, ETC. 



7. (1) When a barrel or package is found to contain any of the following classes 

 of potatoes the Inspector or Assistant Inspectors shall have the right to order that 

 it be sorted and again submitted to him for inspection after all potatoes of the 

 classes mentioned have been discarded : 



(a) Small potatoes, that is, potatoes under 114 inches in diameter. 



(b) Potatoes in a diseased condition. 



(c) Potatoes that are not the type or variety they are represented to be. 



(d) Potatoes affected with common scab. 



(2) Discarded potatoes of any of these classes shall not be sold except under 

 such conditions as the Board shall determine. 



MARKS ON PACKAGES 



8. Every barrel or package containing potatoes imported into these islands shall 

 have plainly marked thereon, or on a label affixed thereon or attached thereto, the 

 name or the initials of the exporter to Bermuda, the name of the place in which 



