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(d) Seed cotton. — The interstate movement of seed cotton will be allowed 
only from lightly infested areas into contiguous regulated areas for the purpose 
of ginning for which movement no permit is required. 
(e) Okra. — Certificates may be issued for the interstate movement of 
okra under any one of the following conditions: (1) When inspected by an 
inspector and found to be free from infestation; (2) when produced under 
such conditions as to render it free from infestation; (3) when processed or 
treated in accordance with methods which may be determined and approved by 
the Chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
(/) Movement to contiguous infested oyrea. — No certificates are required for 
the interstate movement of restricted articles from a lightly infested area to 
a contiguous, lightly or heavily infested area, or from a heavily infested area 
to a contiguous, heavily infested area. 4 
This amendment shall be effective on and after September 15. 1939. 
Done at the city of Washington this 11th day of September 1939. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture. 
[seal] • H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[Copies of foregoing amendment were sent to all common carriers doing business in 
or through the quarantined area.] 
Notice to General Public Through Newspapers 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
Washington, D. C, September 11, 1939. 
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 amendment No. 1 to the revised regula- 
tions supplemental to the pink bollworm quarantine (Quarantine No. 52), effec- 
tive on and after September 15, 1939. The purpose of the amendment is to add 
okra to the list of restricted articles, and to add the Texas counties of Duval, 
Jim Hogg, La Salle, Maverick, Webb, and Zapata to the regulated area. 
Copies of the amendment may be obtained from the Bureau of Entomology 
and Plant Quarantine, United States Department of Agriculture, Washing- 
ton, D. C. 
H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
[The above notice was published in the following- newspapers : The Arizona Republic, 
Phoenix, Ariz., September 25, 1939 ; the Journal, Albuquerque, N. Mex., September 23, 
1939; the Chronicle. Houston, Tex., September 21, 1939.] 
Instructions to Postmasters 
Post Office Department. 
Third Assistant Postmaster Generae, 
Washington, September 27, 1939. 
Postmaster: 
My Dear Sir: Attention is invited to the enclosed copy of Amendment No. 1 
to the Revised Regulations Supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. 52 of the 
United States Department of Agriculture on account of the pink bollworm 
of cotton, effective September 15, 1939. The amendment adds okra to the list 
of articles, the interstate movement of which is restricted from regulated areas, 
and extends the regulated areas to include the Texas counties of Duval, Jim 
Hogg, La Salle, Maverick, Webb, and Zapata. All postmasters in the quaran- 
tined areas will please be governed accordingly. See paragraph 1, section 595, 
Postal Laws and Regulations. 
Very truly yours, 
Ramsey S. Black. 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
4 See footnote 3. 
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