1942] SEKVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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agriculture, and not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within and 
throughout the United States, but known to be present in Alabama, Florida, 
Louisiana, and Mississippi, have been found to exist in the State of North 
Carolina. 
It appears necessary, therefore, to consider the advisability of revising the 
quarantine on account of the white-fringed beetle (7 CFR 301.72 [Notice of 
Quarantine No. 72]) to include the State of North Carolina, and of restricting 
or prohibiting the movement from that State, or regulated portions thereof, of 
(1) soil, sand, clay, peat, or muck, independent of, or in connection with, nursery 
stock, plants, or other things; and (2) such other articles or materials as may 
be determined to present a hazard in spread of the beetle, including the following: 
Nursery stock. 
Potatoes, 
(irass sod. 
Lily bulbs. 
Compost and manure. 
Forest products such as cordwood, stump wood, logs, lumber, timbers, 
posts, poles, and cross ties. 
Hay, roughage of all kinds, straw, leaves, and leafmold. 
Peanuts in shells and peanut shells. 
Seed cotton, cottonseed, baled cotton lint, and linters. 
Used implements, machinery, containers, scrap metal, and junk. 
Brick, tile, stone, cinders, concrete slabs, and building blocks. 
Notice is, therefore, hereby given that, in accordance with section 8 of the 
Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315 ; 7 U. S. C. 161) as amended, 
a public hearing will be held before the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quaran- 
tine in the auditorium of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, in 
the South Building, Independence Avenue and 14th Street SW., at 10 : 30 a. m M 
October 15, 1942, in order that any person interested in the proposed quarantine 
revision may appear and be heard either in person or by attorney. 
Grovee B. Hill, 
Acting Secretary. 
[Filed with the Division of the Federal Register September 25, 1942, 11 : 34 a. m. ; 7 F. R. 
7646.] 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO MEXICAN BORDER REGULATIONS 
MEXICAN BORDER ACT 
[Public Law 426 — 77th Congress] 
[Chapter 31 — 2d Session] 
[H. R. 4849] 
AN ACT 
To provide for regulating, inspecting, cleaning, and. when necessary, disinfecting railway 
cars, other vehicles, and other materials entering the United States from Mexico. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, That to prevent the introduction of insect 
pests and plant diseases the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed 
to promulgate such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to regulate 
the entry into the United States from Mexico of railway cars and other vehicles 
and freight, express, baggage, and other materials which may carry such pests 
and to provide for the inspection, cleaning, and, when necessary disinfection of 
such vehicles and materials ; to carry out the activities required to accomplish 
this purpose, the Secretary of Agriculture shall use such means as he may deem 
necessary, including construction and repair of buildings, plants, and equipment 
for fumigation and disinfection or cleaning of vehicles and materials ; the clean- 
ing and disinfection of vehicles or materials necessary to accomplish the purpose 
shall be carried out by and under the direction of authorized inspectors of the 
