92 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [April-June 
eonnectiou with the Japanese beetle quarantine, by which you will please be 
governed. See paragraph 1, section 595, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
Very truly yours, 
Roy M. North, 
Acting Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE AMENDED 
[Press notice] 
May 11, 1937. 
Amendment of two regulations (nos. 5 and 10) of the Japanese beetle quar- 
antine, effective :May nO, was announced today by the Secretary of Agriculture. 
The amendment to regulation 5 adds the counties of Kent, Queen Annes, 
Somerset, and Worcester; all of Caroline County except election districts of 
Hillsboro (no. G), American Corners (no. 8), and Preston (no. 4) ; election dis- 
trict of Cambridge (no. 7), in Dorchester County; and election districts of 
Pittsburg (no. 4), Parsons (no. 5), Dennis (no. 6), Trappe (no. 7), Nutters 
(no. 8), Salisbury (no. 9), Delmar (no. 11), Camden (no. 13), Willards (no. 
14), and Fruitland (no. 16), in Wicomico County in Maryland, and the counties 
of Accomac and Northampton in Virginia to the area from which the move- 
ment by refrigerator car or motor truck of fruits and vegetables of any kind is 
restricted. 
The amendment to regulation 5 also provides that the Chief of the Bureau 
of Entomology and Plant Quarantine may by administrative instruction extend 
or reduce the areas specified in that regulation when in his judgment such ac- 
tion is considered advisable. 
The amendment to regulation 10 (e) specifies conditions nnder which per- 
mits or certificates may be issued to authorize the movement of fruits and 
Tegetables by truck or other road vehicle from a regulated area through a 
nonregulated area to another regulated area. 
MODIFICATION OF JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE REGULATIONS 
INTRODUCTOKY" NOTE 
An important change in the following amendment to the Japanese beetle 
quarantine regulations is the inclusion of additional territory in the regulated 
area [regulation 5, section A (1) (/?)] from which the movement by refrig- 
erator car or motor truck of fruits and vegetables of any kind is restricted. 
The amendment to regulation 5 also provides that the Chief of the Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine may by administrative instructions extend 
or reduce the areas specified therein when in his judgment such action is con- 
sidered advisable. 
An amendment to regulation 10, paragraph (e), specifies the conditions under 
which permits or certificates may be issued to authorize the movement of fruits 
and vegetables by truck or other road vehicle from a regulated area through a 
nonregulated area, to another regulated area. 
Lee a. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE RULES AND REGULATIONS (FIFTEENTH REVISION) 
SUPPLEMENTAL TO NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 48 
[Approved May 10. 1937; effective May 10, 1937] 
Under authority conferred by the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 
(37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 (39 
Stat. 1134, 1165), it is ordered that regulations 5 and 10 of the rules and regu- 
lations (fifteenth revision) supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 48, on 
account of the Japanese beetle, which were promulgated March 1, 1937, be 
and the same are hereby amended to read as follows: 
