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BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
[Oct.-Dec. 
INSTRUCTIONS TO POSTMASTERS 
Post Office Department, 
Office of Third Assistant Postmaster General, 
Washington, December 18, 1942. 
CALIFORNIA STATE PLANT QUARANTINE MODIFIED 
(Change in Notice Published in May 1937 Supplement to the Postal Guide) 
The California State quarantine pertaining to the Oriental fruit moth estab- 
lished pursuant to the act of June 4, 1936, has been amended so as to add hawthorn 
to the approved list of plants and plant products regarded as hosts or carriers of 
the Oriental fruit moth. This will amend the list appearing in the second column 
of the Department's notice of April 6, 1937, entitled "California State Plant Quar- 
antines" published in the May 1937 Supplement to the Postal Guide so as to read 
when corrected : 
All varieties and species including the flowering forms of almond, apple, 
apricot, cherry, chokecherry, hawthorn, nectarine, peach, pear, plum, and 
quince trees or plants or parts thereof, including the fresh fruits. 
The acceptance for mailing of these plants and plant products from the quar- 
antined areas into California is entirely prohibited, except that scions and bud- 
wood will be admitted under California permit during the period from Novem- 
ber 1 to March 1. 
The area quarantined on account of the Oriental fruit moth has also been 
amended to include (in addition to the several States named in the first column 
of the notice of April 6, 1937) certain areas within California described as follows : 
Entire Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Ber- 
nardino, San Diego, and Ventura and all that portion of Santa Barbara County 
lying south of the first standard parallel line north, San Bernardino base line. 
Postmasters will please make the necessary changes on their records and be 
governed accordingly in the future. See section 596, Postal Laws and Regulations. 
Ramsey S. Black, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
PENALTIES IMPOSED FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE PLANT 
QUARANTINE ACT 
According to reports received by the Bureau during the period October 1 to 
December 31, 1942, penalties have recently been imposed by the proper authorities 
for violations of the Plant Quarantine Act, as follows : 
QUARANTINES AFFECTING MEXICAN PRODUCTS 
In the case of the United States versus the persons listed below, for attempting 
to smuggle in contraband plant material, the penalties indicated were imposed by 
the United States customs officials at the following ports : 
Name 
Port 
Contraband 
Pen- 
alty 
Josefina Nunez 
Josefina Villareal de Elizon 
Maria Julia Martinez 
Daniel Diaz. 
Filomeno Torres 
Donald McKay 
Encarnacion Torres 
Maria O. Martinez 
Aurora Navarro 
Marcclino Garza 
Maria Ibarra de Villanueva 
Ascencion Ramirez de Rodriguez. 
Jflse Andres F. Rivera 
Alejandro Hernandez 
Felipe Ochoa — 
Ruth Ruiz 
Francisca Lopez de Ruiz 
San Ysidro, Calif. 
Brownsville, Tex. 
do 
Del Rio, Tex 
do 
do 
....do 
Eagle Pass, Tex. 
do.... 
85 nodes sugarcane 
2 apples 
12 oranges and 1 guava 
1 orange 
2 oranges 
15 nodes sugarcane 
3 oranges 
7 guavas 
5 apples. 
4 potatoes 
2 sweet limes 
1 guava 
1 orange.. 
4 oranges. 
1 orange... 
1 plant 
2 plants 
$2 
