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From 20 to 25 o/o of the manures are still in hand and will serve for 

 use early next year before the new lot arrives. 



(Sgd.; H. H. Cousins, 



Island & Agricultural Chemist. 



IMPORTATION OF SEEDS AND PLANTS. 



Colonial Secretary's Office, 



10th September, 1901. 



It is hereby notified for general information, that the Jamaica 

 Agricultural Society having cilled the Governors attention to the 

 need for protecting this Colony against the importation of diseased 

 plants, His Excellency on the recommendation of the Board of Agri- 

 calture, has deemed it advisable to issue the following proclamation, 

 prohibiting the imp Nation from the countries n un 3d, except at the 

 Port of Kingston, of plants, etc , and their coverings, and providing 

 ior their being fumigated immediately on importation. 



By Command, 



Sydney Olivier, 

 Acting Colonial Secretary. 



A. TV. L. Hemming. 



By His Excellency Sir Augustus William Lawson Hemming, 

 Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. 

 Michael and St. George, Capt ain-General and Go vernor-in-Chief, 

 in and over the Island of Jamaica and its Dependencies 



A PROCLAMATION. 



By virtue of the power in me vested in that behalf by the first Sec- 

 tion of Law 4 of 1884, " The Seeds and Plants Importation Law, 1834," 

 and by the first and second Sections of Law 25 of 1891, " A Law in 

 aid of the Seeds and Plants Importation Law, 1884." 



I do hereby prohibit, until further Proclamation, the importation 

 into this Island, at any Port ex ept Kingston, of any plant., cuttings, 

 buds or grafts or any goods, packages, articles, coverings or things in 

 which the said plants, cuttings, buds or grefts m iy be packed or 

 otherwise contained from any of the Countries hereinafter named, 

 viz. : — 



The British Islands, Sweden, Norvay, Den nark, Germany, Austria, 

 Holland, Belgium, France, Spun, Portugal, Italy, Russia, Greece, Bul- 

 garia, Servia., Roumania, Montenegro, Turkey, China, Japan, India 

 and Burma, Ceylon, Straits Sittlements and Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, 

 Java, Borneo, Pnilippina Islmls, Persia, Arabia, Africa (any part), 



