1939] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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amendment of oregon plant quarantine order no. 23 
Post Office Department, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, February IS, 1939. 
Oregon Plant Quarantine Order No. 23 (A Series) pertaining to the tomato 
pin worm was amended January 0, 1939, so as to remove the State of Missouri 
from the quarantined area. 
This amends the list of "Oregon State Plant Quarantines" dated June 23, 1937, 
published in the Postal Bulletin of July 27, 1937, and on page 44 of the August 
1937 Supplement to the Postal Guide, and removes the name of Missouri from 
the list of States shown therein as being quarantined on account of the tomato 
pin worm. 
Postmasters will please, therefore, make the proper correction and be governed 
accordingly. 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 
B. E. P. Q. 355, Revised, Supplement No. 2. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, JAMAICA, BRITISH WEST INDIES 
January 6, 1939. 
importation of sisal fiber prohibited 
Proclamation No. 121 of February 16, 1938, prohibits the importation of 
sisal fiber into Jamaica (Jamaica Gazette LXI : 12, February 18, 1938). 
TRANSSHIPMENT OF CITRUS FRUITS AT PORT ANTONIO REGULATED 
Notification No. 712, published in the Jamaica Gazette LXI : 83 of September 
10, 1938, prescribes that the transshipment of citrus fruit from Spanish Hon- 
duras and British Honduras at Port Antonio will be allowed in future under 
the following conditions only : 
(a) The fruit must be clean and free from disease. 
(b) The fruit must have been properly processed and packed to the satis- 
faction of the officer duly appointed to inspect it prior to transshipment. 
(c) Transshipment must be direct from ship to ship and no storage of fruit, 
except in the ship by which it arrives, can be permitted pending transshipment. 
(d) All fruit must leave the island by ship, any broken or damaged boxes 
must be taken away, and any fruit that may fall into the sea at the time of 
transshipment must be picked up by one or other of the vessels. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
B. E. P. Q. 391, Second Revision. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, BRITISH GOLD COAST COLONY 
February 20, 1939. 
This revision of the original digest of the plant-quarantine import restric- 
tions of the Gold Coast Colony was rendered necessary by the enactment of the 
Importation of Plants Regulation Ordinance, No. 18, of March 28, 1930. and 
the promulgation of the Importation of Plants Regulations, No. 25, of May 10, 
1930. It was prepared by Harry B. Shaw, plant quarantine Inspector, in charge 
of foreign service information, Division of Foreign Plant Quarantines, for the 
information of nurserymen, plant-quarantine officials, and others interested in 
the exportation of plants and plant products to that Colony. 
