9 Miscellaneous Circular 22, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
of Columbia, but through any place outside thereof; or within any Territory 
or possession or the District of Columbia. 
Sec. 5. That for the purposes of this act the kinds of spirits of turpentine 
defined in subdivisions (c), (e), and (f) of section 2 hereof and the rosin types 
heretofore prepared and recomménded under existing laws, by or under author- 
ity of the Secretary of Agriculture, are hereby made the standards for naval 
Stores until otherwise prescribed as hereinafter provided. The Secretary of 
Agriculture is authorized to establish and promulgate standards for naval 
stores for which no standards are herein provided, after at least three months’ 
notice of the proposed standard shall have been given to the trade, so far as 
practicable, and due hearings or reasonable opportunities to be heard shall 
have been afforded those favoring or opposing the same. No such standard 
shall become effective until after three months from the date of the promulga- 
tion thereof. Any standard made by this act or established and promulgated 
by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance therewith may be modified by 
said secretary whenever, for reasons and causes deemed by him sufficient, the 
interests of the trade shall so require, after at least six months’ notice of the 
proposed modifications shall have been given to the trade, so far as practi- 
cable, and due hearings or reasonable opportunities to be heard shall have been 
afforded those favoring or opposing the same; and no such modification so 
made shall become effective until after six months from the date when made. 
The yarious grades of rosin, from highest to lowest, shall be designated, 
unless and until changed, as hereinbefore provided, by the following letters, 
respectively, Y¥, WW. WG, NV, M, K, fl. H, G, F, HE, D, and B, together with 
the designation “gum rosin” or “ wood rosin,” as the case may be. 
The standards herein made and authorized to be made shall be known as 
the ‘ Official Naval Stores Standards of the United States,’ and may be 
referred to by the abbreviated expression “ United States Standards,’ and 
shall be the standards by which all naval stores in commerce shall be graded 
and described. 
Sec. 4. That the Secretary of Agriculture shall provide, if practicable, any 
interested person with duplicates of the official naval stores standards of the 
United States upon request accompanied by tender of satisfactory security 
for the return thereof, under such regulations as he may prescribe. The 
Secretary of Agriculture shall examine, if practicable, upon request of any 
interested person, any naval stores and shall analyze, classify, or grade the 
same on tender of the cost thereof as required by him, under such regulations 
as he may prescribe. He shall furnish a certificate showing the analysis, 
classification, or grade of such naval stores, which certificate shall be prima 
facie evidence of the analysis, classification, or grade of such naval stores and 
of the contents of any package from which the same may have been taken, 
as well as of the correctness of such analysis, classification, or grade and 
shall be admissible as such in any court. 
Sec. 5. That the following acts are hereby declared injurious to commerce 
in naval stores and are hereby prohibited and made unlawful: 
(a) The sale in commerce of any naval stores, or of anything offered as 
such, except under or by reference to United States standards. 
(b) The sale of any naval stores under or by reference to United States 
standards which is other than what it is represented to be. 
(c) The use in commerce of the word “turpentine” or the word “ rosin,” 
singly or with any other word or words, or of any compound, derivative, or 
imitation of either such word, or of any misleading word, or of any word, 
combination of words, letter or combination of letters, provided herein or 
by the Secretary of Agriculture to be used to designate naval stores of any 
kind or grade, in selling, offering for sale, advertising, or shipping anything 
other than naval stores of the United States standards. 
(d) The use in commerce of any false, misleading, or deceitful means or 
practice in the sale of naval stores or of anything offered as such. 
Sec. 6. That any person willfully violating any provision of section 5 of this 
act Shall, on conviction, be punished for each offense by a fine not exceeding 
85.000 or by imprisonment for not exceeding one year, or both. 
Sec. 7. That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to purchase 
irom time to time in open market samples of spirits of turpentine and of any- 
thing offered for sale as such for the purpose of analysis, classification, or 
grading and of detecting any violation of this act. He shall report to the 
Department of Justice for appropriate action any violation of this act coming 
to his knowledge. He is also authorized to publish from time to time results 
