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permitted to be removed with a tag attached containing the 

 following certificate : 



Republic of Cuba No 



Secretary of Agriculture Commerce and Labor 

 Commision of Plant Sanitation. 



TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : 



I hereby certify that the plants contained in the accom- 

 panying package have been duly inspected by me on the 

 day of 191.. 



And that said plants, according to the declaration (ver- 

 bal) of the person interested have been cultivated in the 

 property on street "^ 



The undersigned declares that the said plants are free 

 from the "Mosca Prieta" and other injurious insects and 

 diseases. 



Inspector of the Commission 

 OF Plant Sanitation. 



DECREE CONCEElSriNG THE DISEASE OF THE OOCONTTT. 



Whereas: There has existed for some time in this Republic a 

 very serious disease named coconut budrot which attacks coconut trees 

 causing great losses in the plantations of coconuts. 



In consideration of the fact that it is the duty of this Depart- 

 ment to avoid the spread of this disease, in use of the faculties that 

 pertain to this office: 



RESOLVED: 



1. That every proprietor or tenant of land infested by Budrot 

 is obliged to report it in the quickest manner possible to the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, and to employ the methods 

 provided by this Department for the extermination of the said disease. 



2. That any agriculturist or owner of a plantation can denounce 

 his neighbor who has an infested farm and in such cases the Commis- 

 sion of Plant Sanitation will take the necessary measures to destroy 

 such infestation. 



One of the most important points of this decree is the au- 

 thority given owners of plantations to denounce neigh^boring 

 plantations affected by this disease, and authorizing the Commis- 

 sion to see that the plantations are freed from the disease. 'One of 

 the chief difficulties encountered in the work has been that 

 although many planters have been willing to clean up their own 

 plantations, the fact that their neighbors refused to do so allowed 



