LEGAL RESTRICTIONS. 167 



The rules published in July, 1910, are reproduced verbatim: 



Regulation No. 15. No transportation company, common carrier, or agent thereof , 

 shall bring into North Carolina any shipment of seed cotton or cotton-seed hulls origi- 

 nating at any point in the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and 

 Alabama. And this shall likewise apply to other States when the boll weevil shall 

 be determined to be established within their borders. 



Regulation No. 16. Shipments of cotton destined to any points in North Carolina 

 and which originate at any point within the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, 

 Oklahoma, Arkansas and Alabama, or other States that may hereafter become infested 

 with cotton boll weevil, shall only be in hard compressed bales. If shipped in any 

 other form, it is declared to be a public nuisance and is liable to seizure by the Board 

 of Agriculture or its agents. 



Regulation No. 17. Any shipment of cotton seed which originates at any point 

 in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Arkansas or Alabama, and which is des- 

 tined to any point in North Carolina, can be accepted for transportation only if it 

 shall have attached to the bill of lading a certificate or statement signed by a duly 

 authorized State or Government Entomologist stating that the point from which said 

 shipment originates is a locality not known to be in the area of the boll weevil infection. 



Regulation No. 18. If any shipment of seed cotton, cotton-seed hulls, cotton, or 

 cotton seed not in accordance with these regulations be presented to any transporta- 

 tion company, common carrier, or agent thereof, for shipment to or delivery at any 

 point within this State, same shall be refused, and the case shall be reported to the 

 North Carolina State Department of Agriculture, at Raleigh, giving the name and 

 address of the consignor and of the consignee. 



Prof. Franklin Sherman, jr., Raleigh, N. C, is the quarantine officer 

 in this State. 



Oklahoma. — By virtue of rules and regulations issued by the State 

 entomologist in accordance with the laws of the State, shipments of 

 cotton seed, cottonseed hulls, seed-cotton and cottonseed sacks, 

 cotton-pickers' sacks, and corn in the shuck are prohibited from infested 

 territory into uninfested territory. In the same manner household 

 goods are prohibited unless accompanied by a certificate that no 

 quarantined material is contained therein. Through shipments of 

 quarantined articles shall be made in tightly closed box cars and shall 

 not be unloaded while in transit through the State. Shipments of 

 baled cotton into uninfested parts shall be made in tightly closed box 

 cars. No common carrier shall use for bedding or feed for live stock 

 any of the quarantined articles which may have originated in infested 

 territory. All persons are expressly forbidden to send live weevils in 

 any stage to any point in or outside of the State, either by mail, 

 express, or otherwise. 



Prof. C. E. Sanborn, Stillwater, Okla., is the quarantine agent for 

 this State. 



Porto Rico. — By legislative act no cotton seed, seed cotton, cotton 

 lint, loose or in bales, shall be brought into the island of Porto Rico, 

 from any State or county whatsoever without being accompanied 

 by the certificate of a duly authorized State or Federal entomologist 

 that the shipment originated in a locality where, by actual inspection 

 of such official or his agent, the boll weevil was not found to exist. 

 Shipments not so certified are liable to seizure and destruction. 

 Punishment is provided for in section 16 of the Penal Code of Porto 

 Rico of 1902. 



The governor of the island has direct control over the enforcement 

 of this law. 



South Carolina. — In South Carolina the quarantine regulations are 

 entirely embodied in the laws of the State, and consequently not so 

 readily modified to conform with the changed conditions and a better 

 understanding of the methods of dissemination of the boll weevil as 



