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antine), promulgated March 24, 1920, and effective June 1, 1920, such revocation 
to become effective on July 1, 1932. 
Done at the city of Washington, this 22d day of June, 1932. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[seal.] Arthur M. Hyde. 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
TERMINAL INSPECTION OF PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS 
PLANTS AND PLANT PRODUCTS ADDRESSED TO PLACES IN CALIFORNIA 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, April 28, 1932. 
Postmasters in the State of California are informed that facilities for the 
terminal inspection at Crescent City, Del Norte County, have been discontinued 
and, therefore, such plant material as would ordinarily be sent to Crescent 
City should be sent to Eureka, Calif., for terminal inspection upon payment of 
the required postage, as prescribed by section 468, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
F. A. Tilton, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
CERTIFICATE OF INSPECTION NOT REQUIRED FOR SWEETPOTATO PLANTS 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, April 28, 1932. 
Postmasters are informed that sweetpotato plants may be accepted for 
transmission in the mails without being accompanied with the certificate of 
inspection prescribed by paragraph 2, section 467, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
However,, when such plants are addressed for delivery within a State main- 
taining terminal inspection, the parcels must be indorsed on the outside to 
show the exact nature of the contents. 
F. A. Tilton, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 
P. Q. C. A.— 335. May 16, 1932. 
LEGAL DATA WITH REFERENCE TO AGRICULTURAL QUARANTINE LITIGATION 
IN THE COURTS OF THE UNITED STATES 
Various plant quarantine officers, through the Western and National Plant 
Boards, have asked the department to compile " the legal data, statutes, and 
court decisions which have accumulated as a result of litigation in connection 
with Federal and State agricultural quarantines." These requests involve sev- 
eral features: (1) State plant quarantines; (2) State nursery inspection laws 
and regulations, and (3) court decisions. 
Synopses of State plant quarantines have been issued as Miscellaneous Publi- 
cation 80, which is a loose-leaf bulletin being kept up to date by revision from 
time to time. 
Nursery inspection laws and regulations have been compiled in the form of a 
chart which is now available for distribution. 
There is presented below a synopsis of court decisions of interest to plant- 
quarantine officers. The information has been compiled in the Office of the 
Solicitor of the Department of Agriculture and is believed to be complete so far 
as concerns plant quarantine decisions in the Federal courts. An attempt has 
also been made to include decisions in State courts but it is possible that some 
such decisions have been overlooked. 
In addition, the Solicitor's office has received from various sources informal 
information concerning a number of unpublished decisions, but these have not 
