1936] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 79 
control and inspection of grass seeds imported into France will be collected 
from the declarants by the customs in accordance with a tariff established by 
the Minister of Agriculture. Declarants will be required to permit the free 
drawing of samples of grass seeds necessary for control and analysis (law of 
Jan. 11, 1932; Journ. Off. Jan. 15, 1932). 
SAMPLING OF GRAMINEOUS SEEDS 
The decree of June 13, 1933, prescribes that in the application of the law of 
January 11, 1932, gramineous forage-crop seeds declared for importation and 
unaccompanied by the documents mentioned in article 3 of that law, will be 
subject, prior to removal, and at the importer's expense, to inspection and 
analysis intended to verify their identity, purity, and germinability. 
Restrictions on Account of Chestnut Blight 
The importation into and transit in France are prohibited of living plants, 
fruits, and seeds of chestnuts coining directly or indirectly from the Far East, 
as well as from countries which have not taken protective measures against 
the disease caused by the fungus Endothia parasitica. 
Derogations from this prohibition may be authorized by the Minister of 
Agriculture (decree of Mar. 8, 1921). 
Note. — Up to the present, since no country has taken sufficient protective measures 
(Italy excepted), this prohibition is applicable, until further orders, to all sources except 
Italy (letter of the Minister of Agriculture, Mar. 26, 1921). 
Abies, Picea, Pinus, Pseudotsuga, and Tsuga Importation Prohibited 
The entry into France is prohibited of plants and parts of plants belonging 
to the genera Abies, Picea, Pinus, Pseudotsuga, and Tsuga as being capable 
of introducing the needle cast disease (Rhabdocline pseudotsugae) (decree of 
Nov. 26, 1930). 
B. E. P. Q. 404 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, BRITISH INDIA 
June 13, 1936. 
This summary of the plant-quarantine import restrictions of British India has 
been prepared for the information of nurserymen, plant-quarantine officials, and 
others interested in the exportation of plants and plant products to that 
country. 
It was prepared by Harry B. Shaw, plant-quarantine inspector, in charge, 
foreign-information service, Division of Foreign Plant Quarantines, from the 
text of the Destructive Insects and Pests Act, approved February 3, 1914, as 
amended, and that of notification no. 580-240, of June 22, 1922, as amended, and 
was reviewed by the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research, Simla, India. 
The information contained in this circular is believed to be correct and 
complete up to the time of preparation, but it is not intended to be used inde- 
pendently of, nor as a substitute for, the original texts. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, BRITISH INDIA 
Basio Legislation 
(Act No. II of 1914, The Destructive Insects and Pests Act, approved Feb. 3, 1914, as 
amended up to May 14, 1931) 
The act empowers the Governor General in Council, by notification in the 
Gazette of India, to prohibit or regulate the importation into British India of 
any article or class of articles likely to cause the infection of any crop. 
The act also empowers the local government, subject to the control of the 
Governor General in Council, to make rules for the detention, inspection, dis- 
infection, or destruction of such article or class of articles, and to impose 
penalties for infractions of the said rules. 
