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inspected and passed, and having postage properly prepaid, it shall be trans- 

 mitted to the office of address and delivered to addressee. Should the State 

 Inspector fail to furnish the postage for sending the parcel to him for in- 

 spection, the parcel shall be treated as other undeliverable fourth-class matter, 

 as prescribed in Section 637. 



DANIEL C. ROPER, 

 Acting Postmaster General. 



Plants and Plant Products Addressed to Places in Montana 



Office of Third Ass't P. M. Gen. 



Washington, Oct. 21, 1915. 



The State of Montana has established places for the terminal inspection 

 of plants and plant products, under the provisions of the Act of March 4, 1915, 

 embodied in Section 478^, Postal Laws and Regulations, appearing on page 

 49 of the May, 1915, Supplement to the Postal Guide. 



All postmasters are, therefore, informed that packages containing plants 

 or plant products addressed to places in the State of Montana may be ac- 

 cepted for mailing only when plainly marked so that the contents may be 

 readily ascertained by an inspection of the outside thereof. The law makes 

 the failure so to mark such packages an offense pimishable by a fine of not 

 more than $100. 



The plants and plant products subject to terminal inspection in the State 

 of Montana are described as follows : 



"All florists' stock, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit 

 pits and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees or shrubs, and other plants 

 and plant products in the raw or unmanufactured state, except vegetable and 

 flower seeds : Provided. That this list of plants shall not apply to plants 

 shipped under the certificate of the United States Department of Agriculture 

 for propagation in the plant introduction and field work of the Division of 

 Forestry or Government Experiment Station work in Montana." 



Postmasters within the State of Montana shall be governed strictly by the 

 provisions of paragraphs 3, 4, 5, and 6, Section 478^/4, Postal Laws and Reg- 

 ulations, in the treatment of all packages addressed for delivery at their of- 

 fices containing any plants or plant products above described as subject to 

 terminal inspection. 



The place to which a postmaster in the State of Montana shall send for 

 Inspection, after receiving the required postage therefor, under the provisions 

 of Section 478^/4, Postal Laws and Regulations, a package containing plants 

 or plant products subject to terminal insijection is the one in the list below 

 whivh Is nearest to his office: 



