RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE STATE CROP PEST 



COMMISSION 



Governing the Shipment of Materials Likely to Disseminate the 

 Cotton Boll Weevil. 



For convenient reference, we give below such regulations of 

 the State Crop Pest Commission as govern the movement and 

 transportation of cotton seed and other products and materials 

 likely to introduce the boll weevil into new territory. A full 

 copy of the Regulations of the Commission may be had free of 

 charge upon application to the Secretary of the Commission :* 



SECTION I. 



Be it declared, ordained and ordered that the following insects are 

 hereby declared to be dangerous crop and fruit pests: 



(a) The Mexican boll weevil (Anthonomns gratidis.} 



(b) The San Jose scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus) ; provided, however, 

 that this Commission may, from time to time, declare other crop and 

 fruit pests and diseases to be dangerous. 



SECTION II. 



Be it further ordained and ordered that in order to prevent the intro- 

 duction of the Mexican boll weevil into the uninfested part of the State 

 of Louisiana, from the State of Texas and from the infested portion of 

 Louisiana where the boll weevil is now known to exist, a quarantine is 

 hereby declared to exist against the State of Texas and against the fol- 

 lowing Parishes of Louisiana, to-wit: Bossier, Caddo, Calcasieu, Cam- 

 eron, DeSoto, Grant, Natchitoches, Eapides, Eed Eiver, Sabine, Vernon. 

 and Winn. 



(a) That no cotton seed, seed cotton, cotton seed hulls( except such 

 cotton seed hulls as are packed, shipped and handled in a manner ap- 

 proved by this Commission, when formal permit for their shipment has 

 been issued by this Commission, such permit to accompany shipment when 

 consigned to any point in the non-infested portion of Louisiana), or cot- 

 ton-seed sacks or seed-cotton sacks shall be shipped into the uninfested 

 portion of Louisiana, from the State of Texas or from the infested par- 

 ishes of Louisiana, as above enumerated. 



(b) That the quarantine hereby declared may, from time to time, 

 as the necessity may arise, be extended to include counties in any State 

 or Territory, or parishes in the State of Louisiana, or elsewhere. 



All railroads, steamboats, express companies and other common car- 

 riers entering the State of Louisiana, from the State of Texas or from 



*The Eules and Eegulations of the Crop Pest Commission are enacted, 

 and amended from time to time as occasion requires, in accordance with 

 Act No. 6 of the Extra Session of the Louisiana Legislature, Approved 

 December 15, 1903, and said Eules and Eegulations have the force of 

 law. Violation of any Eule, Eegulation or Order of the Crop Pest Com- 

 mission is punishable by fine or imprisonment. 



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