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upon approval by the Secretary of Agriculture of such application a permit will 
be issued. 
(&) Importations from the States of Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico, will be 
permitted entry through the ports of El Paso, Tex., and Douglas, Naco, and 
Nogales, Ariz., and such other ports as may bo designated in the permit. 
(c) Importations from the northern territory of Baja California, Mexico, 
will be permitted entry only through the ports of Calexico and San Ysidro, 
Calif., and such other ports as may be designated in the permit. 
(d) The requirements contained in regulation 6 in regard to the sending 
of notice of arrival of shipment shall be complied with by the permittee. 
(e) No shipment of potatoes from the States of Chihuahua and Sonora, 
and the northern territory of Baja California,' Mexico, will be permitted entry 
until it has been examined by an inspector of the United States Department 
of Agriculture and found, or believed to be, free from dangerous potato diseases 
and insect pests. 
This amendment of regulation 7 shall be effective on and after December 1, 
1936. 
Done at the city of Washington this 31st day of October 1936. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of 
Agriculture. 
M. L. Wilson, 
(seal) Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
Instructions to Collectors of Customs 
Regulations Governing the Importation of Potatoes into the United States, 
as Amended (T. D. 38695, T. D. 39211, and T. D. 44162), Further Amended 
(T. D. 48693) 
Treasury Department, 
Office of the Commissioner of Customs. 
Washington, D. C. December 9, 1936. 
To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned: 
The appended copy of amendment 3 to regulation 7 of the regulations 
governing the importation of potatoes into the United States, issued by the 
Secretary of Agriculture, effective on and after December 1, 1936, is published 
for the information and guidance of collectors of customs and others concerned. 
The number of this Treasury decision should be inserted as a marginal 
reference for article 560 (a) of the Customs Regulations of 1931. 
James H. Moyle, 
Commissioner of Customs. 
[Then follows the text of the amendment.] 
TERMINAL INSPECTION OF PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS 
AMENDMENT OF LAW PERTAINING TO TERMINAL INSPECTION OF PLANTS AND 
PLANT PRODUCTS 
Office of the Postmaster General, 
Washington, October 15, 1936. 
Order No. 9620. 
Paragraphs 1 (a), 2, and 4 (b). section 596, Postal Laws and Regulations, 
edition of 1932, are amended to read ;is follows: 
596. (a) When any State shall provide for terminal inspection of plants and 
plant products, and shall establish and maintain, at the sole expense of the 
State, such inspection at one or more places therein, the proper officials of said 
State may submit to the Secretary of Agriculture a lisl of plants and plant 
products and the plant pests transmitted thereby, that in the opinion of s;>id 
officials should be subject to terminal inspection in order to prevent the intro- 
duction or dissemination in said State of pests injurious to agriculture. Upon 
his approval of said list, in whole or in part, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
