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or other quarantine guardians, to deport immediately such shipments or 

 destroy them by burning. All exptnises incurred in deporting or destroying 

 such shipments shall be paid by the consignor. 



Any person who sells or offers for sale within the State of Montana 

 pine seedlings, currant and gooseberry plants from the above quarantined 

 area in violation of this quarantine order shall be liable to prosecution under 

 the State Laws of Montana. 



It is specifically understood and intended that this quarantine proclama- 

 tion shall revoke all previous proclamations on this subject by me made. 



IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have liereunto set my hand and caused the 

 Great Seal of the State to be affixed. 



DONE at the City of Helena, the Capital, this the third day of July, in 

 the 5'ear of our Lord one thousand nine hundred seventeen. 



(Signed) : S. V. STEWART. 

 Seal. 

 By the Governor : 



C. T. STEWART, 



Secretary of State. 



Quarantine No. 3 



WHEREAS, the fact has been determined that a dangerously injurious 

 plant disease known as Wheat Rust is disseminated and carried by means 

 of Barberry bushes (Berberis vulgaris), both of the green and purple form; 

 and 



WHEREAS, there is danger of the introduction of this disease into the 

 great wheat fields of Montana through shipments of said Barberry bushes 

 and a further dissemination of said wheat rust through the agency of Bar- 

 berry bushes ; 



NOW, THEREFORE, I, S. V. Stewart, Governor of the State of Montana, 

 under and by virtue of the authority conferred upon me by Chapter 61 of 

 the Session Laws of the Thirteenth Legislative Assembly, do hereby declare 

 and proclaim that a quarantine be and hereby is established against the 

 importation into the State of Montana of Barberry bushes (Berberis vulgaris) 

 and plants from any point without the said State of Montana. 



All quarantine guardians and deputy state horticultural inspectors are 

 hereby instructe<l and required to refuse admission into Montana of any 

 shipments of Barberry bushes (Berberis vulgaris) or plants. It shall be the 

 duty of the deputy horticultural inspectors, or other quarantine guardians, to 

 deport immediately Huch shipments or destroy them by burning. All expenses 

 incurred in deporting or destroying such shipments shall be paid by the con- 

 signor. 



Any person who sells or offers for sale, in the State of Montana, Bar- 



