ORDER OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL 



Office of the Postmaster General, 

 Order No. 8760. Washington, April 2, 1915. 



The Postal Laws and Regulations, edition of 1913, are amended by the ad- 

 dition of the following, as Section 478i/i : 



Sec. 4781/4. (a) When any state shall provide for terminal inspection of 

 plants and plant products, and shall establish and maintain, at the sole expense 

 of the state, such inspection at one or more places therein, the proper officials 

 of said state may submit to the Secretary of Agriculture a list of plants and 

 plant products and the plant pests transmitted thereby, that in the opinion of 

 said officials should be subject to terminal inspection in order to prevent the 

 introduction or dissemination in said state of pests injurious to agriculture. 

 Upon his approval of said list, in whole or in part, the Secretary of Agriculture 

 shall transmit the same to the Postmaster General, and thereafter all packages 

 contaiiiing any plants or plant products named in said approved lists shall, 

 upon payment of postage therefor, be forwarded by the postmaster at the 

 destination of said package to the proper state official at the nearest place 

 where inspection is maintained. If the plant or plant products are found upon 

 inspection to be free from injurious pests, or if infected shall be disinfected by 

 said official, they shall upon payment of postage therefor be returned to the 

 postmaster at the place of inspection to be forwarded to the person to whom 

 they are addressed ; but if found to be infected with injurious pests and in- 

 capable of satisfactory disinfection the state inspector shall so notify the post- 

 master at the place of inspection, who shall promptly notify the sender of said 

 plants or plant products that they will be returned to him upon his request 

 and at his expense, or in default of such request that they will be turned over 

 to the state authorities for destruction. (Act of March 4, 1915.) 



(b) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to deposit 

 In the United States mails any package containing any plant or plant prwluct 

 addressed to any place within a state maintaining inspection thereof, as herein 

 defined, without plainly marking the package so that its contents may be 

 readily ascertained by an inspection of the outside thereof. Whoever shall fail 

 to so mark said packages shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100. 

 (Act of March 4, 1915.) 



(c) The Postmaster General is hereby authorized and directed to make all 

 needful rules and regulations for carrying out the purposes hereof. (Act of 

 March 4. 1915. ) 



2. When the Secretary of Agriculture furnishes the Postmaster General a 

 list of plants and plant products subject. to terminal inspection under the 

 provisions of the prweding paragraph, appropriate instructions in rt»gard there- 

 to shall be issue<l to postmasters by the Third Assistant Postmaster General, 

 Division of Classification. 



3. When a package containing plants or plant products subject to terminal 



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