198 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMEXT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Total for Bureau of Soils, three hundred and one thousand four 

 hundred and twenty dollars. 



Act August 10, 1912. c. 2.S4, 37 Stat. 290. 



These are provisions of the agriciiUural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1913, cited above. 



BUBEAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



ACT APRIL 23, 1304, c. 1486. (33 Stat. 276.) 

 Chief of bureau. 



>:= .* ::= One entomologist, who shall be chief of bureau, * * * 



Act April 23, 1904, c. 1486, 33 Stat. 289. 



This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1900, cited above. I'lovision.s in the same words are contained in 

 the similar acts for subsequent fiscal years. The provision in the act for 

 the Qpcal year 1913 is set forth on p. 200, post. The agricultural appro- 

 priation acts for the fiscal years 189t> to 1904. inclusive, contain provi- 

 sions for " One entomologist, who shall be chief of division." 



ACT JUNE 16, 1880, c. 235. (21 Stat. 259.) 



Entomological investigations transferred to Department of Agriculture. 



For the completion of the work of the United States Entomological 

 Commission under the Department of the Interior in the special 

 investigation of the Rocky Mountain locust or gras.shopper and the 

 cottonworm, * * * Provided^ That after the close of the next 

 fiscal year all work of the character herein provided for shall be ex- 

 clusively under the control of the Agricultural Department, * * ^■ 



Act June 16, ISSO, c. 235, 21 Stat. 276. 



This is a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 18S1. cited above. 



ACT MARCH 3. 1905, c. 1501. An act to prohibit importation or interstate trans- 

 portation of insect pest.s. .-ind the use of the United States mails for that 

 purpose. <;]3 Slat. 1269.) 



Transportation, removal, or importation of insects injurious to crops, vegetables, 

 trees, etc., except for scientific purposes, forbidden. 



That no railroad, steamboat, express, stage, or other transporta- 

 tion company shall knowingly transport from one State or Tenitory 

 into any other State or Territory, or from the District of Columbia 

 into a State or Territorv. or from a State or Territory into the Dis- 

 trict of Columl)ia, or from a foreign country into the United States, 

 the gypsy moth, brown-tail moth, leopard moth, plum curculio, hop 

 j)lant-louse, boll weevil, or any of them in a live state, or other insect 

 in a live state which is notoriou.sly injurious to cultivated crops, 

 including vegetables, field crops, bu.sh fruits, orchard trees, forest 

 trees, or shade trees; or the eggs. pupa\ or larva" of iuiy insect in- 

 jurious as aforesaid, except when shinped for scientific purposes 

 under the regulations hereinafter proviaed for: nor shall any person 

 remove from one State or Teri'itory into another State or Territorv, 

 or from a foreign country into the United States, or from a State or 

 Territory into the District of Columbia, or from the District of Co- 

 lumbia into any State or Territory, except for scientific purposes 

 under the regulations hereinafter ])rovidtMl for, the gyi^sy moth, 

 brown-tail ni»ith. leopard moth, plum curculio. hop plant-louse, boll 



