102 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [Oct.-Dec. 
Art. 20. An Advisory Board of Plant Quarantine is hereby created, to be 
composed of the following members: 
(1) The Director of Agriculture as Chairman; 
(2) The Chief of the Division of Plant Sanitation; 
(3) The Chief of the Department of Phytopathology and Entomology of the 
Agricultural Experiment Station; 
(4) The Chief of the Department of Botany and Genetics of the same station; 
(5) The Chief of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine who shall act as Secretary; 
(6) The Professor of Plant Pathology and Entomology of the National Uni- 
versity; and 
(7) A member, a specialist in this matter, of the "Felipe Poey" Society of 
Natural History. 
Said Board shall perform the following functions: 
(a) To advise the Secretary of Agriculture, when he so desires, on matters 
pertaining to the regulation of plant products importations. 
(b) To answer all questions on such matters submitted to it by the Division of 
Plant Sanitation; and 
(c) To propose to the Secretary of Agriculture the adoption of quarantine 
measures that the Board may deem advisable. 
secretary's authority 
Art. 21. The Secretary of Agriculture, being previously advised by the Plant 
Quarantine Board, shall have the power to revoke any of the prohibitions enacted 
in this decree as they affect the importation of plant products, or to enact new 
ones; and, in the same manner, shall have the power to issue such dispositions as 
he may consider necessary for the better enforcement of it. 
REVOCATION OF PREVIOUS DECREES 
Art. 22. -All the decrees and resolutions pertaining to the importation of plant 
products, or to any other imports that mav appear injurious to agriculture, with 
the exception of Decree No. 1752 of October 22, 1928, and Decree No. 1201 of 
August 26, 1932, are hereby revoked. 
ENFORCEMENT OF DECREE 
Art. 23. The Secretary of Communications, the Secretary of the Treasury, 
and the Secretary of Agriculture are hereby charged with the enforcement of 
such phases of this decree as come under their corresponding jurisdiction. 
Done at the citv of Havana, in the Presidential Palace, this 4th dav of October 
1940. 
Federico Laredo, 
President. 
Francisco Gomez, 
Secretary of Communications and Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
[Decree No. 1752, October 22, 1928] 
USED CHEESECLOTH 
The Presidential Decree No. 1752 of October 22, 1928, prohibits the importa- 
tion of used cheesecloth for covering tobacco plantations, unless it has been 
thorough^ fumigated in its country of origin. An accompanying certificate issued 
by the competent authority and endorsed by the Consul of Cuba will be accepted 
as evidence. The certificate shall also stale that the goods do not contain the 
"escarabajo japones" (Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica Newm.), or any other 
crop pest. 
In default of this certificate the cloth shall, at the expense of the persons con- 
cerned, be fumigated on its arrival at Havana — the only port by which its importa- 
tion is allowed — or receive such other treatment as is specified by the "Depart- 
ment© de Sanidad Vegetal." (Revista de Agricultura, Comercio y Trabajo, 
Publicacion mensual, organo oficial de la Secretaria de Agricultura, Comercio y 
Trabajo, Habana, Cuba, 1928, ano XI, vol. 10, num. 5, pag. 47.) 
[Decree No. 1201, August 26, 1932] 
SEED POTATOES 
The importation of seed potatoes is permitted from Canada, Bermuda, Canary 
Islands, and the United States of America, provided a certificate covering the 
