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objectionable material, such procedure is authorized. In the latter case the 
inspector shall place in the package a memorandum (B. E. P. Q. form 387) 
informing the addressee of the action taken by the inspector and describing the 
matter which has been seized and destroyed and the reasons therefor. (See 
T. D. 42952.) Mail packages received at San Juan, P. R., and Honolulu, T. H., 
shall be accorded treatment as herein prescribed at these two ports and not 
diverted to Washington, D. C, San Francisco, Calif., or Seattle, Wash. 
G. Packages containing plants or plant products received in closed mail 
dispatches made up direct to post offices (located at a customs port at which no 
plant-quarantine inspector is stationed) not included in the foregoing list of 
post offices, or such packages which are forwarded to these post offices from the 
post office of original receipt without having received plant-quarantine examina- 
tion, shall be forwarded by the collector of customs through the postmaster (ac- 
companied by customs card form 3511 in the manner heretofore described) to 
the most accessible of the post offices listed above for treatment in accordance 
with the foregoing instructions. Packages discovered at post offices where no 
customs officer is located .shall be forwarded by the postmaster under his official 
penalty envelope addressed to the collector of customs at the most accessible of 
the post offices listed for appropriate treatment as prescribed herein. 
7. The provisions of T. D. 40363, T. D. 40753, and T. D. 41562 are hereby 
revoked and superseded. 
8. The foregoing regulations have been approved by the Postmaster General 
and the Secretary of Agriculture. 
James H. Moyle, 
Commissioner of Customs. 
Approved February 25, 1930: 
Wayne C. Tayix>r, 
Acting Secretary of the Treasury. 
IMPORTATIONS BY MAIL— REGULATIONS (T. D. 48237) 
Regulations Permitting (1) Mail Importations of Plant Material, and (2) 
Mail Parcels in Transit Intended for Outward Dispatch by Private Air 
Transportation Agencies, To Be Immediately Exported, Free of Duty, 
Under Customs Supervision 
Treasury Department, 
Office of the Commissioner- of Customs, 
Washington, D. C. 
To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned: 
(A) Shipments of plant material may be imported by mail for immediate 
exportation by mail, free of duty, subject to the following regulations, which 
have been approved by the Department of Agriculture and the Post Office 
Department : 
1. Each shipment shall be dispatched in the mails from abroad, accompanied 
by a yellow and green special mail tag bearing the serial number of the 
permit for entry for immediate exportation or immediate transportation and 
exportation, issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, and also 
the postal form of customs declaration. 
2. Upon arrival, the shipment shall be detained by, or redispatched to, the 
postmaster at Washington, D. C, San Francisco, Calif., Seattle, Wash, Honolulu, 
T. H., or San Juan, P. R., as may be appropriate, according to the address 
on the yellow and green tag, and there submitted to the customs officer and 
the Federal quarantine inspector (T. D. 40363). The merchandise shall 
under no circumstances be permitted to enter the commerce of the United States. 
3. After inspection by the customs and quarantine officers, and with their 
approval, the adressee, or his authorized agent, shall repack and readdress 
the mail parcel under customs supervision; affix to the parcel the necessary 
postage, and comply with other mailing requirements, after which the parcel 
shall be delivered to the postmaster for exportation by mail pursuant to article 
3S2 of the Customs Regulations of 1931. The contents of the original parcel 
may be subdivided and exported in separate parcels in like manner. 
4. Each parcel imported shall be subject to the payment of the regular 10- 
cent customs clearance fee and the 5-cent delivery fee exacted by the postal 
service. 
