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Provided that in the case of canes for planting imported direct by the Govern- 
ment sugarcane expert, Coimbatore, by the secretary, Sugar Bureau, Pusa, or by 
G. Clarke, so long as he holds the appointment of agricultural chemist, United 
Provinces, and intended to be grown under the personal supervision of the 
importing officer in each case, such certificate shall be required only in respect 
of the freedom of the country of export from the Fiji disease of sugarcane. 
IMPORTATION PROHIBITED OF HEVEA FROM CERTAIN COUNTRIES 
Art. 7. Hevea rubber plants and seeds shall not be imported into British 
India from America or from the West Indies except by the Director of Agricul- 
ture. Madras Presidency. 
Art. 8. Seeds of flax, berseem, and cotton shall not be imported by letter or 
sample post, otherwise than by sea. 
RESTRICTIONS ON IMPORTATION OF COFFEE 
Art. 9. Coffee plants, coffee seeds, and coffee beans shall not be imported into 
British India except for experimental planting by the Director of Agriculture, 
Madias Presidency, who shall take all measures necessary to insure that such 
coffee plants, beans, or seeds as are imported by him are free from plant diseases 
and injurious insects. Provided that the prohibition hereinbefore contained 
shall not apply (a) to roasted and ground coffee, or (&) to a consignment of 
unroasted or unground coffee beans or seeds produced in India and covered by 
a certificate of origin in the prescribed form. 
Art. 10. Flax seeds and berseem (TrifoUitm alexandrinum L.) shall not be 
imported into British India by sea unless the consignee produces before the 
collector of customs a license from the Department of Agriculture in India in 
that behalf. 
COTTON RESTRICTIONS 
Art. 11. (1) Unginned cotton, other than cotton from a Kathiawar port, 
which has been produced in India, shall not be imported by sea or by air. 
(2) Cottonseed shall not be imported by sea save for experimental purposes 
by designated officers in India, and shall not be so imported by such officer save 
at the port of Bombay and in quantities not exceeding one hundredweight (112 
pounds) in any one consignment and on condition that it will be fumigated 
with carbon disulphide on importation : 
Provided, That if the cottonseed is accompanied by a certificate from a Gov- 
ernment entomologist of the country of origin to the effect that the seed and 
its container have been treated in such a way as to destroy all insect life, the 
seed shall be examined on importation by such officer as the Govemor-General- 
in-Council may appoint and shall not be required to be refumigated unless such 
examination shows that to be necessary. (See also the notification of Oct. 1, 
1931, Cotton from America. See below.) 
Art. 12. Nothing in these rules shall be deemed to apply to — 
(1) The import of any article into Aden ; or 
(2) The bringing by sea or by air from one port or place in British India, 
not being in Aden, to another such port or place. 
RESTRICTIONS ON COTTON FROM AMERICA 
(Notification no. 1581— Agriculture, of Oct. 1, 1931) 
Definition 
Article 1. "Cotton" includes ginned cotton, and droppings, strippings, fly, 
and other waste products of a cotton mill, other than yarn waste, but does not 
include unginned cotton. 
"American cotton" means all cotton produced in any part of America. 
Eiilr}! of cotton by mail or baggage prohibited 
Art. 2. American cotton shall not be imported into British India by letter or 
sample mail or as passengers 1 accompanied baggage, and shall not be imported 
by any other means save through the port of Bombay and subject to disinfec- 
tion as prescribed by the Government of Bombay at the expense of the 
importer. 
