1938] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 65 
When large shipments are contemplated, arrangements may be made for 
inspection at other places by telephoning District 6350, branch 4495, or writing 
the Bureau. 
Application for inspection of articles the movement of which is restricted 
by quarantine regulations or other restrictive orders shall be made at a season 
of the year sufficiently in advance of the contemplated date of shipment to 
provide for compliance with regulations. 
(d) No common carrier or other person shall accept for shipment or remove 
from the District of Columbia any nursery stock, herbaceous perennial plants, 
bulbs, or roots, unless the required certificate or permit has been issued and is 
securely attached to the outside of each container. 
These revised rules and regulations shall be effective on and after April 
30, 1938, and shall supersede the rules and regulations governing the movement 
of plants and plant products into and out of the District of Columbia, promul- 
gated April 29, 1931. 
Done at the city of Washington this 27th day of April 1938. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture. 
[seal] H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[Copies of the foregoing revised regulations were sent to all common carriers doing 
business in or through the District of Columbia.] 
Notice to General Public Through Newspapers 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
Bureau oe Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
Washington, D. C, April 30, 1938. 
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 promulgated a revision of the rules and regulations gov- 
erning the movement of plants and plant products into and out of the District 
of Columbia, effective April 30, 1938. This revision clarifies the definition of 
nursery stock and simplifies the wording of the regulations. Copies of the 
notice of the revision may be obtained from the Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine, Department of Agriculture, Washington. D. C. 
H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[The above notice was published in The Evening Star, Washington, D. C, May 6, 1938.] 
Instructions to Postmasters 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, May 6, 1938. 
Postmaster, 
Washington, D. C. 
My Dear Sir : Attention is invited to the inclosed copies of Revised Rules and 
Regulations Governing the Movement of Plants and Plant Products Into and out 
of the District of Columbia as promulgated by the Bureau of Entomology and 
Plant Quarantine, United States Department of Agriculture. 
It is requested that these copies be distributed to the various stations and 
branches of your office for the information and guidance of employees handling 
parcels containing plants and plant material as contemplated in sections 5Uo and 
596, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
Very truly yours, 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
