APPENDIX. 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE, 



OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY. 



SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE IMPORTATION OF ADULT HONEY- 

 BEES INTO THE UNITED STATES. 



The Act of August 31, 1922 (Public No. 293— 67th Congress), entitled 

 " An Act to regulate foreign commerce in the importation into the United 

 States of the adult honeybee {Apis melUfica)" provides as follows: 



That, in order to prevent the introduction, and spread of diseases dangerous to the 

 adult honeybee, the importation into the United States of the honeybee (Apis mellifica) 

 in its adult stage is hereby prohibited, and all adult honeybees offered for import into 

 the United States shall be destroyed if not immediately exported : Provided, That such 

 adult honeybees may be Imjwrted into the United States for experimental or scientific 

 purposes by the United States Department of Agriculture : And provided further. That 

 such adult honeybees may be Imported into the United States from countries in which 

 the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine that no diseases dangerous to adult honey- 

 bees exist, under rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and 

 the Secretary of Agriculture. 



Sec. 2. That any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be 

 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punislied by a 

 fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both such fine 

 and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. 



In accordance with the foregoing Act, notice is hereby given that the fol- 

 lowing rules and regulations have been prescribed by the Secretary of the 

 Treasury and the Secretary of Agriculture, the same to become effective ou 

 and after the fifteenth day of May, 1923. 



Hbnkt C. Wallace, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 

 Mat 12, 1923. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



The following rules and regulations are promulgated under the authority 

 conferred by the Act of Congress approved August 31, 1922, providing for the 

 regulation of foreign commerce in the importation into the United States of 

 the adult honeybee {Apis mellifica) : 



Regulation 1. — Definition. — For the purpose of these regulations, it is under- 

 stood that a disease dangerous to the adult honeybee is one which attacks 

 adult honeybees, as distinguished from one which attacks the brood or de- 

 velopmental stages of the honeybee. Such diseases of adult honeybees are un- 

 derstood to include all diseases which attack adult honeybees, including queen- 

 bees, worker bees, and drones or male bees : Provided, That the disease caused 

 by the protozoan parasite, Nosema apis, sometimes known as Nosema-disease, 

 now widespread in the United States, shall not be considered as. a disease dan- 

 gerous to adult honeybees for the purposes of these regulations. 



Regulation 2. — Since, in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture, the 

 importation of queenbees, vvith necessary accompanying worker bees, is the 

 only kind which is necessary for the improvement of the stock of honeybees 

 within the United States, it is understood that, for the purposes of these 

 regulations, such expressions as the " importation of honeybees " or " importa- 

 tion of adult honeybees " shall mean the importation of queenbees and the 

 necessary accompanying worker bees, except as hereinafter provided. 



Regulation 3. — ^The importation into the United States of the honeybee 

 (Apis mellifica) in its adult stage, except as hereinafter provided, is prohibited, 

 and all adult honeybees offered for entry into the United States, except as 

 hereinafter provided in these regulations, shall be destroyed if not immediately 

 exported. 



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