1936 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 97 
sp., Adoretus sp., and of several species of termites or white ants, new to and 
not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the 
United States, do quarantine the said Territories of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, 
effective on and after September 1, 1936. Thereafter, pursuant to the provi- 
sions of the said act of August 20, 1912, sand (other than clean ocean sand), 
soil, or earth around the roots of plants, shall not be shipped, offered for ship- 
ment to a common carrier, received for transportation, or transported by 
a common carrier, carried, transported, moved, or allowed to be moved from 
the Territories of Hawaii and Puerto Rico into or through any other State, 
Territory, or District of the United States: Provided, That this prohibition 
shall not apply to sand, soil, or earth around the roots of plants which are 
carried, for ornamental purposes, on vessels into mainland ports of the United 
States and which are nol intended to be landed thereat, when evidence is 
presented satisfactory to the inspector of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant 
Quarantine of the Department of Agriculture (a) that such sand, soil, or 
earth has been so processed or is of such nature that no pest risk is involved, 
or (&) that the plants with sand, soil, or earth around them are maintained 
on hoard under such safeguards as will preclude pest escape. 
The prohibition of this quarantine shall not apply to the movement of sand, 
soil, or earth around the roots of plants moved from the Territories of Hawaii 
and Puerto Rico for experimental or scientific purposes by the United States 
Department of Agriculture. 
Effective September 1, 1936, this notice of quarantine revises and supers 
Notice of Quarantine No. 60, approved February 19, 1926, which became effec- 
tive March 1, 1926. 
Done at the city of Washington this 14th day of August 1936. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[seal] M. L. Wilson, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
[Copies of foregoing quarantine were sent to all steamship lines plying between Puerto 
Rico and Hawaii and the mainland.] 
Notice to General Public Through Newspapers 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
Washington, D. C, August l.' h 1936. 
Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of Agriculture, under authority 
conferred on him by the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), 
as amended, has revised Notice of Quarantine No. 60, Hawaiian and Puerto 
Rican quarantine covering sand, soil, or earth, with plants, so as to make pro- 
vision for the retention on board vessels, at mainland ports, of plants, with 
soil about the roots, originating in Hawaii and Puerto Rico aucl carried for 
ornamental purposes, when evidence is presented satisfactory to the inspector 
of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine that such soil has been 
adequately safeguarded against risk of pest escape. Copies of said quarantine, 
as revised, effective September 1, 1936, may be obtained from the Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 
M. L. Wilson. 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
[Published in the following newspapers : The Star Bulletin, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 16, 
193t>; the El Mundo, San Juan. P. K., Sept. 5, 1936.] 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO JAPANESE BEETLE QUARANTINE 
(NO. 48) 
INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTMASTERS 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, D. C, July 9, 1936. 
Postmaster. 
My Dear Sir: Your attention is invited to the enclosed copy of a revision of 
the Japanese beetle quarantine and regulations (Quarantine Order No. 48, 1". s 
