1937] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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and others interested in the exportation of plants and plant products to those 
colonies. 
It was prepared by Harry B. Shaw, plant quarantine inspector in charge, 
Foreign Information Service, Division of Foreign Plant Quarantines, from the 
^►riginal texts of the pertinent decrees and orders of the French Minister of 
Colonies and of the respective Colonies, and reviewed by the French Ministry 
•of Colonies. 
The information contained in this circular is believed to be correct and com- 
plete up to the time of preparation, but it is not intended to be used indepeud- 
^ently of, nor as a substitute for, the original texts of the decrees and orders 
•concerned. They should be consulted for the exact texts. 
Lee a. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, FRENCH COLONIES 
< Including Cameroons, Equatorial Africa, Guadeloupe and Dependencies, Guiana, 
India (Settlements in), Indo-China, Madagascar and Dependencies, Martinique, 
New Caledonia and Dependencies, New Hebrides, Oceania (Settlements in), 
Reunion Island, Somaliland, Togoland, West Africa) 
Basic Legislation 
^Decree of May 6, 1913, to prevent the introduction of coffee rust {Hemileia vaatatrim 
B. and Br.) and other pests and diseases] 
Article 1 of this decree, in order to prevent the distribution of plant diseases 
•caused by animal or plant parasites or by larvae or nonparasitic insects, empowers 
the Minister of Colonies, through special orders that name the disease and the 
plants susceptible to infection, to prohibit the entry into the French Colonies and 
Protectorates, other than Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, of — 
1. Plants susceptible to the declared disease ; 
2. All other plants whereby that disease could be transported ; 
3. Soils or composts that may contain parasites, larvae, or nonparasitic insects 
in any stage of development. 
The same article prescribes that Governors-General or Governors, by order, 
shall determine plants, soils, or composts which are capable of carrying the dis- 
ease, and prescribes that the importation of the containers or packing of such 
materials may also be prohibited. 
Article 2 prescribes that the Minister of Colonies may, in default of a pro- 
hibition, determine through a special order the conditions to which the entry 
and distribution of the plants and articles mentioned shall be subject in the 
colonies and protectorates, and the conditions under which branches, leaves, 
fruits, seeds, and refuse of the said plants may enter into and move within the 
5aid colonies and protectorates. 
PLANTS AFFECTED BY IMPORT RESTRICTIONS OF THE FRENCH COLONIES 
General orders have been issued by the French Minister of Colonies to impose 
restrictions upon or prohibitions against the importation of certain plants and 
plant products into all French colonies, or groups of French colonies. From 
time to time these general orders have been applied to particular colonies by 
special or local orders promulgated by the respective Governors-General or 
Governors of the colonies concerned. 
The plants hitherto affected by these orders are: Banana {Musa spp.), cocoa 
{Theohroma cacao L.), coconut palm {Cocos nucifera L.), coffee (Coffea spp.), 
cotton {Gossypium spp.), rubber {Hevea spp.), sugarcane {Saccharum officinarum 
lb.), tea {Thea spp.), fruits (applied to Indo-China only), potatoes [Solanum 
tuberosum L.) (applied to New Caledonia only), and trees, cuttings, roots, seeds, 
bulbs (applied to New Caledonia only). 
The prohibitions and restrictions are applicable to the above-mentioned plants 
proceeding from the sources named in the respective orders, which should be 
consulted. 
Consequently, the importation of other plants and plant products into the 
French colonies is not restricted, except in the cases of Indo-China, New Cale- 
donia, and Oceania. 
