264 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



PLANT QUARANTINE ACT OF AUGUST 20, 1912, 



ACT AUGUST 20, 1912, c. 308. Au act to regulate the iuiportation of nursery 

 stock iuid other i)l;ints and plant products; to enable the Secretary of 

 Agriculture to establish and maintain quarantine districts for plant dis- 

 eases and insect pests; to i>ernjit and regulate the movement of fruits, 

 plants and vegetables therefrom, and for other purposes. (37 Stat. 315.) 



Importation, etc., of niirsery stock without a permit and a certificate of inspec- 

 tion, unlawful; permit issued on compliance with regulations under act; 

 importation of nursery stock by Department of Agriculture for experi- 

 mental or scientific purposes; importations from countries having no 

 inspection. 



That it shall be unlawful for any person to import or oifer for 

 entry into the United States any nursery stock unless and until a 

 permit shall havo been issued therefor Ijy the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, under such conditions and regulations as the said Secretary 

 of Agriculture may prescribe, and unless such nursery stock shall 

 be accompanied by a certificate of inspection, in manner and form 

 as required by the Secretary of Agriculture, of the proper official 

 of the country from which the importation is made, to the eifect 

 that the stock has been thoroughly inspected and is believed to be 

 free from injurious plant disea.ses and in.sect pests: Provided^ That 

 the Secretary of Agriculture shall i.ssue the permit for any particu- 

 lar importation of nur.sery stock when the conditions and regulations 

 as prescribed in this Act shall have been complied with : Provided 

 further^ That nursery .stock may be imported for experimental or 

 scientific purjioses by the Dei)artment of Agriculture upon such 

 conditions and under such regulations as the said Secretary of Agri- 

 culture may prescribe: And provided further^ That nursery stock 

 imported from countries where no official system of inspection for 

 such stock is maintained may be admitted upon such conditions and 

 under such regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe. 



Act August 20. 1912. c. 308. s. 1, 37 Stat. 315. 



Notification of Secretary of Agriculture and proper State, etc., officials of arrival 

 of imported nursery stock at port of entity: interstate shipment of im- 

 ported nursery stock without such notification, or without inspection, 

 forbidden. 



Sec. '2. 'I'hat it .shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury 

 promptly to notify the Secretary of Agriculture of the arrival of any 

 nurser}' slock at j)oi"t of entry: that the person receiving such stock 

 at port of entry shall, innuediately upon entry and before such stock 

 is delivered for shij)ment or removed from the port of entry, advise 

 the Seci-etary of Agi'iculture or. at his direction, the proper State, 

 Territorial, or District official of the State or Territory or the Dis- 

 trict to which such nursery stock is destined, or both, as the Secretary 

 of Agriculture may elect, of the name and address of the consignee, 

 the nature and (piantity of the stock it is projxxsed to ship, and the 

 country and locality where the same was grown. That no person 

 shall ship or olVer for .shipment from (me State or Territory or Dis- 

 trict of till' United States into any other Stale or Ton-itory or Dis- 

 tict. any nur.sery stock imported into the United States without 

 notifying the Secretary or Agriculture or, at his direction, the 

 proper State, Territorial, or District official of the State or Territory 

 or District to which such nursery stock is destined, or both, as the 

 Secretary of Agriculture may elect, immediately upon the delivery 



