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A. W. L. Hemming. 



By His Excellency Sir Augustus William Lawson Hemming, 

 Knight Grand Cross of the most Distinguished Order of 

 Saint Michael and Saint George, Captain-General and Go- 

 vernor-in-Chief in and over the Island of Jamaica and its 

 Dependencies. 



A PROCLAMATION. 



WHEREAS by a Proclamation dated the seventh day of Septem- 

 ber, and made under the authority of Section 1 of Law 4 of 

 1884, (The Seeds and Plants Importation Law 1884,) it was among 

 other thing proclaimed and ordered that immediately on the impor- 

 tation into this island of any plants, cuttings, buds or grafts, and of 

 any goods, packages, coverings or things in which such plants, cut- 

 tings, buds or grafts, hereinafter referred to under the general term 

 of " proclaimed articles" might be packed they should be subjected 

 to a thorough process of fumigation to be hereafter decided upon. 



And whereas the Governor in Privy Council has since decided upon 

 adopting the process of fumigation hereinafter set forth for the pur- 

 pose of completely destroying all animal or vegetable parasites which 

 may have been imported on or along with the said proclaimed 

 articles : 



Now, therefore, I do hereby proclaim and order that the importa- 

 tion into this Island of all " proclaimed articles" shall be subject to 

 the following conditions : — 



All proclaimed articles shall be fumigated, and the work of fumi- 

 gation shall be carried out by the staff of the Government Laboratory 

 — a fumigatory box shall be employed for small operations, and a fu- 

 migatory chamber at the wharf for large For ordinary purposes the 

 dose of cyanide to be vap -rised shall be one ounce for every 300 feet 

 of cubic space and the exposure shall be one hour. For the more de- 

 licate plants half the above dose of cyanide shall be used and the ex- 

 posure shall be half an hour only. Plan s in VVardian cases shall be 

 fumigated while still in the case. The Island and Agricultural 

 Chemist shall be the authority to decide in any question connected 

 with the fumigation of proclaimed articles which involves the exercise 

 of any discretion. 



Given under my hand and the Broad Seal of this Island, at Kings 

 House, this fifteenth day of October, in the First year of His 

 Majesty's tleign, Annoque Domini, 1901. 



By Command, 



Sydney Olivier, Colonial Secretary. 



