No. 37, 1900. 



Walter Hely-Hutchinson, 



Governor. 



PROCLAMATION 



By His Excellency the Honour ab{e&iB, : 

 Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, 

 Knight Grand Cross of the Most TJ>is-i 

 tinguished Order of Saint Michael and 

 Saint George, Governor and Command- 

 er-in-Chief in and over the Colony of 

 Natal, Vice- Admiral of the same, and 

 Supreme Chief over the Native Popula- 

 tion. 



TTTHEREAS by Proclamation No. 

 VV 11, bearing date the 16th day of 

 Jane, 1890, the Governor, acting with the 

 advice of the Executive Council, : did, in 

 pursuance of the provisions of Law No. 

 15, 1881, prohibit the introduction into 

 this Colony of all plants or cuttings of 

 the Grape Vine, or jportions of such 

 plants or cuttings, from the Colony of 

 the Cape of Good Hope : 



And whereas it is expedient to revoke 

 the said Proclamation, and to make rules 

 for regulating the introduction of plants 

 and of any parts of plants which may be 

 diseased or likely to bring disease into this 

 Colony : 



N-fw, therefore, in pursuance of the 



powers -vested in me by Law No. 15, of 

 1881, I do hereby, with tho advice of the 

 Executive- Council, proclaim and make 

 known as follows :— 



1. The above-recited Proclamation, No. 

 11, of 1890, is hereby revoked. 



2. The rules forming the Schedule of 

 this Proclamation, and made under the 

 provisions of Section 2, of Law No. 15, 

 of 1881, shall be in force from the date 

 of the promulgation of this Proclamation 



in the Natal Government Gazette, 



3. Any person willfully contravening 

 any of the said rules shall be liable to a 

 penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds, 

 and, in default of the payment thereof, to 

 imprisonment, with, or without hard labour, 

 for any term not exceeding six weeks, un- 

 less such penalty be sooner paid. 



God save the Queen I' 



Given under my hand and the Public 

 Seal of the Colony, at Government 

 ' House, Pietermaritzbnrg, Natal, this 

 Second day of June, One Thou- 

 sand Nine Hundred. 



CHARLES J. SMYTHE, 



Colonial Secretary. 



RULES MADE UNDER SECTION 2, 

 ,. OF LAW No. 15, 1881. 



Conditions for the Importation of Grape 

 Viniss, Cuttings, and the like, and of 

 other Trees, Plants, Fruits, and the 

 o like.. 



■ <S> 1. The importation of all Grape Vines, 

 -<?.uHin*s, grafts, or foli*ge thereof is pro- 

 hibited unless imported by the Department 

 %\ Agriculture. 



2. All trees and plants, other than vines, 

 and all parts thereof, and all fruit of any 

 description, and all tubers, roots, bulbs, or 

 portions thereof, and, all packages, cases, 

 pots, or coverings whatsoever, containing 

 such, shall, before being introduced into 

 this Colony from places beyond the bound- 

 aries thereof, undergo a strict examination 

 by a competent officer appointed for that 

 purpose, to determine as far as possible 

 the absence of noxious insects and plant 

 diseases which it would be prejudicial to 

 this Colony to allow to be introduced ; 

 and it shall be the duty of the consignee 

 to open all such packages, cases or cover- 

 ings, for the purpose of the examination 

 aforesaid, and to afford every facility to 

 the said Examining Officer during his 

 examination. 



3. On the aforesaid Officer being satis- 

 fied as to the absence of noxious insects 

 and plant diseases in such trees, plants, 

 fruits, tubers, roots, bulbs, or portions 

 thereof, and their packages, cases, pots or 

 coverings, he shall give a certificate to 

 that effect to the consignee ; and without 

 such certificate no such articles shall be 

 permitted to enter the Colony. 



4. All trees, plants, fruits, tubers, roots, 

 bulbs, or portions thereof, or the pack- 

 ages, cases, pots, or coverings in which 

 they may be packed, which shall be found 

 to be infected with any noxious insect or 

 plant disease, shall be cleansed or disin- 

 fected by the consignees in the manner 

 prescribed by, and to the satisfaction of, 

 the .Examining Officer, and if it is not so 

 cleansed or disinfected, or if such dis- 

 infection shall be deemed or found to be 

 ineffectual, shall be immediately de- 

 stroyed. 



5. The importation into this Colony of 

 any stone-fruit tree, or of any portion 

 thereof whatever, from the United States 

 of America or the Dominion of Canada is 

 prohibited, unless such importation be ac- 

 companied by a sworn declaration stating 

 the trees, or portions thereof, as the case may 

 be, are not from areas where either of the 

 diseases known as peach yellows and 

 peach rosette exist or have existed, nor 

 that such trees, or portions thereof, were 

 grown or produced from seed grown in 

 lands, or adjacent to lands, in which 

 either disease mentioned exists or has 

 existed. 



