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Sec. 8. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of Agriculture that any 
State, Territory, district, corporation, firm, or person shall have provided proper 
and competent inspection and treatment in accordance with the provisions of this 
act for the objects above specified as being subject to inspection and treatment, he 
may, by proclamation or otherwise, accept such inspection and treatment in lieu of 
inspection and treatment by officers appointed by himself, which aecceptation or 
proclamation by the said Secretary of Agriculture shall relieve all such articles 
specified in sections 5, 6, and 7 of this act, when properly stamped or labeled, from 
further quarantine or restrictions in interstate commerce. 
Sec. 9. That the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- 
sary, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States 
not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 10. This law shall take effect on and after the first day of July, 1897. 
SUBSTITUTE SECTIONS PROPOSED BY THE NATIONAL 
NURSERYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
Aw Act to provide rules and regulations for the importation of trees, plants, shrubs, vines, grafts, 
cuttings, and buds, commonly known as nursery stock, and fruits, into the United States. And for 
rules and regulations for the inspection of trees, plants, shrubs, vines, grafts, cuttings,and buds 
commonly known as nursery stock, grown within the United States, which become subjects of 
interstate commerce. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress assembled: 
SEcTION 1. That it shall be unlawful for any transportation company after 
October first, 1898, to offer for entry at any port in the United States any trees, 
plants, shrubs, vines, grafts, cuttings, and buds commonly known as nursery 
stock, unless accompanied by a certificate of inspection by a government official 
of the government from which the exportation is made that the same has been 
examined and found apparently free from all insects and fungus diseases dan- 
gerously injurious to nursery stock. In case any nursery stock is offered for 
entry without said certificate, it shall be the duty of the collector of customs to 
refuse to accept such stock for entry and shall not allow such nursery stock to pass 
within the jurisdiction of the United States of America. And after the aforesaid 
date, October first, 1898, all imported nursery stock shall be free from inspection, 
quarantine, or restrictions in interstate commerce. 
Src. 2. Whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States 
of America that any variety or varieties of fruit, grown outside of the United States 
or the District of Columbia, is or are being, or is or are about to be imported into 
the United States of America or the District of Columbia, and such variety or vari- 
eties of fruit is infested with any seriously injurious insect or disease, and which 
insect or disease is liable to become established in the United States and seriously 
affect any variety or varieties of fruit grown therein, he shall have authority to 
quarantine against any such variety or varieties of fruit and prevent the importa- 
tion of the same, until such time as it shall appear to him that such insect or disease 
has become exterminated in the country whence such fruit or fruits is being or are 
about to be imported, when he shall withdraw the quarantine; and this act shall 
operate to relieve all such fruit or fruits from further quarantine or restrictions so 
long as the conditions of freedom from seriously injurious insects or diseases shall 
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