88 BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE [July-Sept. 
2. Precautions against San Jose scale 
Living plants and parts thereof and their containers — Importation prohibited 
from countries infested with San Jose scale 
Article 1. The importation is prohibited of living plants, seedlings, cuttings, 
scions, and other separated parts of plants, as well as of fresh refuse of plants 
and articles which arrive in direct contact with the above-mentioned goods, 
also barrels, cases, sacks, and other containers of such merchandise, from Africa, 
America, Australia, Austria, China, Hawaii, Hungary, Japan, and New Zealand, 
because those countries are infested with San Jose scale (Aspidiotus pernicio- 
sus). The Ministry of Agriculture, in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry, 
Commerce and Trade and the Ministry of Finance, can extend this prohibition 
to the importation of the said products from other countries in which San Jose 
scale may appear. (As extended by the notice of Feb. 1, 1932.) 
Art. 2. Exceptions from the prohibition of article 1 may be allowed in indi- 
vidual cases under special conditions imposed by the above-mentioned 
ministries. 
Importation of fresh fruit permitted if free from San Jose scale 
Art. 3. The importation of fresh fruit (deciduous) from countries, infested 
with San Jose scale is permitted on condition that San Jose scale is not found 
either on the fruit or in the containers comprising the shipment. 
Inspection at frontier customs offices 
Art. 4. The phytopathological inspection of shipments exceeding 20 kg gross 
weight must be effected exclusively at frontier customs offices expressly au- 
thorized for the entry of such shipments. Shipments not exceeding 20 kg in 
weight may also be entered at inland customs offices established at the seat 
of the research institutes. The cost of this inspection is to be borne by the 
importer. 
Art. 5. Phytopathological inspection is to be effected at the following research 
institutes : 
The phytopathological section of the Government Institute on Plant Produc- 
tion. Prag; the phytopathological section of the Moravian Agricultural Land 
Research Institute, Briinn ; the phytopathological section of the Government 
Agricultural Research Institute, Bratislava; and the Government Agricultural 
Research Institute, Troppau. 
Art. 6. The station or post office will immediately notify the competent re- 
search institute and the consignee at his expense by telegraph of the arrival 
of shipments of fruit. 
Art. 7. The research institute will send out at once, or at the latest within 
24 hours after receipt of the notice, its inspector to the customs office in order 
that the phytopathological inspection may be carried out in the presence of 
a customs official and a railroad or postal official, and also in every case, the 
consignee. According to the needs of the case, the inspector will withdraw 
10 percent of the contents of the shipment at the expense of the interested 
person and will make a thorough inspection to determine whether or not 
the fruit or packing is infested with San Jose scale. The inspector is also 
authorized to withdraw a suitable quantity of fruit for further examination 
in the laboratory. After examination the fruit will be replaced in the 
shipment. 
Rejection of shipments infested with San Jose scale 
Art. 8. If it be determined by the inspection that the fruit is infested with 
San Jose scale, the customs office will refuse entry of the shipment on the 
basis of his written statement and will note the fact in the bill of lading or 
the postal declaration, as the case may be. 
Art. 9. If the inspector has a reasonable suspicion that the shipment is in- 
fested with San Jose scale and must undertake a laboratory examination 
of a portion of the shipment, the customs office will refuse entry until the 
inspector has advised the said customs office that, as a result of the examina- 
