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weevil, or any of them in a live state, or other insect in a live state 

 ■which is notorionsly injurious to cultivated crops, including vegeta- 

 bles, field crops, bush fruits, orchard trees, forest trees, or shade trees; 

 or the eggs, pu})a% or larvte of any insect injurious as aforesaid. 



Act March 3. 1905, c. 1501, s. 1. 33 Stat. 1269. 



Letters, parcels, etc., containing insects injurious to crops, vegetables, trees, 

 etc., nonmailable, except for scientific purposes; violations of section pun- 

 ishable. 



Sec. 2. That any letter, parcel, box, or other package contain- 

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

 hop plant-louse, boll weevil, or any of them in a live state, or other 

 insect in a live state which is notoriously injurious to cultivated 

 crops, including vegetables, field crops, bush fruits, orchard tre^s, 

 forest trees, or shade trees, or any letter, parcel, box, or package 

 which contains the eggs, pupjr, or larva? of any insect injurious as 

 aforesaid, whether sealed as first-class matter or not, is hereby de- 

 clared to be nonmailable matter, except when mailed for scientific 

 jjurposes under the regulations hereinafter provided for, and shall 

 not be conveyed in the mails, nor delivered from any post-office, nor 

 by any letter carrier, except when mailed for scientific purposes under 

 the regulations hereinafter provided for; and any person who shall 

 knowingly deposit, or cause to be deposited, for mailing or delivery, 

 anything declared by this section to be nonmailable matter, or cause 

 the same to be taken from the mails for the purpose of retaining, 

 circulating, or disposing of, or of aiding in the retention, circulation, 

 or disposition of the same shall, for each and every offense, be fined, 

 upon conviction thereof, not more than five thousand dollars or im- 

 ])risoned at hard labor not more than five years, or both, at the 

 discretion of the court: Provided^ That nothing in this Act shall 

 authorize any person to open any letter or scaled matter of the first- 

 class not addressed to himself. 



Act March 3, 1905, c. 1501, s. 2. 33 Stat. 1270. 



Regulations for mailing, shipping, transportation, delivery, and removal, for 

 scientific purposes, of insects, etc., within sections 1 and 2 of act. 



Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 and he is hereby authorized and directed to prepare and promulgate 

 rules and regulations under which the insects covered by sections one 

 .ind two of this Act may be mailed, shipped, transported, delivered, 

 and removed, for scientific purposes, from one State or Territory into 

 another State or Territory, or from the District of Columbia into a 

 State or Territory, or from a State or Territory into the District of 

 Columbia, and any insects covered by sections one and two of this Act 

 may be so mailed, shipped, transported, delivered, and removed, for 

 scientific purposes, under the rules and regulations of the Secretary 

 of Agriculture: Provided, That the rules and regulations of the Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture, in so far as they affect the method of mailing 

 insects, shall be approved by the Postmaster-General, and nothing in 

 this Act shall be construed to prevent any State from making and 

 enforcing laws in furtherance of the purposes of this Act, prohibiting 

 or regulating the admission into that State of insects from a foreign 

 country. 



Act March 3. 1905, c. 1501, s. 3, 33 Stat. 1270. 



