1937] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine when in his judgment such 
articles are considered innocuous as carriers of infestation. 
Done at the city of Washington this 1st day of March 1937. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture. 
[seal] H. A. Waixace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
RULES AND REGULATIONS (FIFTEENTH REVISION) SUPPLEMENTAL TO NOTICE 
OF QUARANTINE NO. 48 
[Approved Mar. 1, 1937 ; effective Mar. 1, 1937] 
Regulation 1. Definitions 
For the purpose of these regulations the following words, names, and terms 
shall be construed, respectively, to mean : 
(a) Japanese beetle. — The insect known as the Japanese beetle {Popilliar 
japonica Newm.), in any stage of development. 
(6) The terms "infested", "infestation", and the like relate to infestation 
with the Japanese beetle. 
(c) Quarantined area. — Any State or District quarantined by the Secretary 
of Agriculture to prevent the spread of the Japanese beetle. 
(d) Regulated area. — Any area in a quarantined State or District which is 
now or which may hereafter be designated as such by the Secretary of Agri- 
culture in accordance with the provisos to Notice of Quarantine No. 48, as 
revised. 
(e) Fruits and vegetables. — For the list of restricted fruits and vegetables 
see regulation 5. 
(f) Nursery and ornamental stock. — Nursery, ornamental, and greenhouse- 
stock and all other plants, plant roots, cut flowers, or other portions of plants. 
{g) Sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure. — Sand, soil, earth, peat,, 
compost, or manure of any kind and as to either bulk movement or in con- 
nection with farm products or nursery and ornamental stock. 
{h) Certified sand, soil, earth, peat, compost and manure. — Sand, soil, earth, 
peat, compost, or manure determined by the inspector as uninfested and so 
certified. 
(i) Certified greenhouse.— A greenhouse or similar establishment which has 
complied to the satisfaction of the inspector with the conditions imposed in 
regulation 6. This term may apply also to potting beds, heeling-in areas, 
hotbeds, coldframes, or similar plots or to storage houses, packing sheds, or 
stores treated or otherwise safeguarded in manner and method satisfactory 
to the inspector. 
(i) Inspector. — An inspector of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
(k) Moved or aUoived to be moved iwiersfa^e.— Shipped, offered for shipment 
to a common carrier, received for transportation or transported by a common 
carrier, or carried, transported, moved, or allowed to be moved from one State 
or Territory or District of the United States into or through any other State 
or Territory or District. 
Regulation 2. Limitation of Restrictions to Regulated Areas 
Regulation 2. Limitation of Restrictions to Regulated Areas 
Conditioned upon the compliance on the part of the State concerned with 
the provisos to Notice of Quarantine No. 48 (twelfth revision), the restrictions 
provided in these regulations on the interstate movement of plants and plant 
products and other articles enumerated in said notice of quarantine will be 
limited to such movement from the areas in such State now or hereafter desig- 
nated by the Secretary of Agriculture as regulated areas. 
Regulation 3. Regulated Areas 
In accordance with the provisos to Notice of Quarantine No. 48 (twelfth 
revision), the Secretary of Agriculture designates as regulated areas for the 
purpose of these regulations the States, District, counties, townships, towns, 
