1942] 
SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 
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Articles Remaining Under Quarantine 
(c) Certification is required for the following articles and materials enumerated 
in § 301.72-3: 
(1) All soil, sand, gravel, clay, peat, or muck, whether moved independent of, 
or in connection with, or attached to nursery stock, plants, products, articles or 
things. 
(2) Compost, manure, moss, and leafmold. 
(3) Nursery stock. 
(4) Grass sod. 
(5) Potatoes, freshly harvested. 
(6) True bulbs, corms, tubers, and rhizomes of ornamental plants, when 
freshly harvested or uncured. 
(7) Peanuts in the shell. 
(8) Peanut hay. 
This revision supersedes Circular B. E. P. Q. 485, tenth revision, which became 
effective August 3, 1942. 
(7 C. F. R., § 301.72 ; sec. 8, 39 Stat. 1165, 44 Stat. 250 ; 7 U. S. C. 161.) 
Done at Washington, this 23d day of December 1942. 
P. N. Annand, 
Chief. 
\ Filed with the Division of the Federal Register December 24, 1942, 2:43 p. hi. ; 7 
F. R. 10905.] 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO MEXICAN BORDER REGULATIONS 
INSTRUCTIONS TO COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS 
Regulations for Carrying Into Effect the Inspection of and Application 
of Safeguards to Railway Cars, Vehicles, and Various Materials Enter- 
ing the Unitfd States From Mexico (T. D. 50757) 
Treasury Department, 
Office of the Commissioner of Customs, 
Washington, D. C, November 3, 1942. 
To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned: 
The appended copy of the Mexican Border Regulations, approved by the Sec- 
retary of Agriculture on September 2, 1942, in pursuance of the Mexican Border 
Act approved January 31, 1942 (Public Law 426, 77th Congress), entitled, "To 
provide for regulating, inspecting, cleaning, and, when necessary, disinfecting 
railway cars, other vehicles, and other materials entering the United States 
from Mexico," is published for the information and guidance of customs of- 
ficers and others concerned. 
These regulations supersede the Rules and Regulations Prohibiting the Move- 
ment of Cotton and Cottonseed from Mexico into the United States and Gov- 
erning the Entry into the United States of Railway Cars and Other Vehicles, 
Freight, Express, Baggage, or Other Materials from Mexico at Border Points, 
effective July 1, 1917 ((1917) T. D. 37255), as amended January 29, 1920 (not 
published as a Treasury decision). 
The number of this Treasury decision should be inserted as a marginal ref- 
erence opposite articles 578 (a) and 579 (a), Customs Regulations of 1937. 
W. R. Johnson, 
Commissioner of Customs. 
[Then follows the text of the regulations.] 
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS 
B. E. P. Q. 426, Supplement No. 7. 
PLANT-QUARANTINE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS, REPUBLIC OF ARGENTINA 
October 13, 1942. 
Printing Requirements on Wraps of Imported Fruits Abolished 
A Government Decree of August 22, 1942, abolished the requirements that 
waterproof tissue paper wraps of imported apples, pears, oranges, tangerines, 
