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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 81 
DEE 1 XITIONS 
Article 1. (a) "Official certificate" means a certificate granted by the proper 
officer or authority in the country of origin (United Slates Department of 
Agriculture). 
(b) "Plant" means a living plant or part thereof, but does not include seeds. 
(o) "Prescribed port" means any of the following ports, namely, Bombay, 
Calcutta, Cochin, Dhanushkodi, Karachi, Madras, Negapatam, Rangoon, and 
Tuticorin. 
(d) All provisions applying to plants or seeds shall apply also to all packing 
material used in packing or wrapping such plants or seeds. 
IMPORTATION OF PLANTS BY LETTER OR SAMPLE POST PROHIBITED 
Art. 2. No plant shall be imported into British India by letter or sample 
post : provided that sugarcane for planting, intended to be grown under the 
personal supervision of the Government sugarcane expert, Coimbatore, may be 
imported by him by such post. 
IMPORTATION OF PLANT BY AIR PROHIBITED 
Art. 2 A. No plant shall be imported into British India by air ; provided that 
plants infested by living insects and intended for the introduction of such 
insects may be so imported if they are accompanied by a special certificate 
from the Imperial entomologist to the Government of India that such plants 
are imported for the purpose of introducing such insects. 
IMPORTED PLANTS MUST BE FUMIGATED ON ARRIVAL 
Art. 3. No plants, other than fruits and vegetables intended for consumption,, 
potatoes, and sugarcane shall be imported into British India by sea except after 
fumigation with hydrocyanic-acid gas and at a prescribed port : 
Provided that plants infested by living parasitized insects intended for the 
introduction of such parasites may be imported without such fumigation if they 
are accompanied by a special certificate from the imperial entomologist to the 
Government of India that such plants are imported for the purpose of introduc- 
ing such parasites. 
Provided also that in the case of plants imported direct by H. C. Javarayya, 
so long as he holds the post of director of horticulture, Mysore, such fumigation 
shall be dispensed with. He is personally responsible for the fumigation of such 
plants in the Bangalore fumigatorium. 
POTATOES MUST BE CERTIFIED AGAINST WART 
Art. 4. Potatoes shall not be imported into British India by sea unless 
accompanied by— 
(a) A declaration from the shipper stating fully in what country and district 
the potatoes were grown and guaranteeing that potato wart was not known to 
exist on the farms where the potatoes were grown: and 
(b) An official certificate that no case of wart disease of potatoes has been 
known during the 12 months preceding the date of the certificate within 5 miles 
of the place where the potatoes were grown. 
Art. 5. Not applicable to the United States. 
SUGARCANE RESTRICTIONS 
Art. 0. (1) The importation of sugarcane into British India by sea from the 
Fiji Islands, New Guinea, Australia, or the Philippine Islands is prohibited 
absolutely. 
(2) The importation of sugarcane into British India by sea from any other 
country is prohibited, unless it is accompanied by an ofheial certificate that it 
has been examined and found free from cane borers, scale insects, aleyrodes, 
root disease (any form), pineapple disease (Thielaviopsis {etfaaceticus) para- 
doxa (De Seyn.) v. Hoeh.), sereh, and cane gummosis; that it was obtained 
from a crop that was free from mosaic disease; and that the Fiji disease of 
sugarcane does not occur in the country of export. 
