1935] SERVICE AXD REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 3 
rrient of mahonia cuttings (without roots) when shipped for decorative pur- 
poses and not for propagation. Cuttings shipped for propagation, and entire 
plants with roots, remain under restriction. 
This amendment became effective February 20, 1935, and postmasters will 
please be governed accordingly. 
C. B. ElLENBERGER, 
Third Assistant Postmaster General. 
P. Q. C. A.-320 (second revision) Supplement No. 1. 
March 4, 1935. 
BERBERIS MENTORENSIS APPROVED FOR SHIPMENT UNDER BLACK-STEM RUST 
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS 
In consideration of experimental work which shows that Berber is men- 
torensis Ames (MS), a new hybrid of Berber is covered by plant patent no. 99, 
is resistant to black-stem rust of grains, its shipment into and between the 
protected States designated in Federal Quarantine 38 is approved. P. Q. C. A- 
320, second revision, is accordingly modified to add Berberis mentorensis to 
group B under that quarantine. Such shipment into or between the protected 
States must comply with all requirements of the quarantine regulations, includ- 
ing the restriction that a Federal permit must be attached to each shipment 
into the said States. 
Lee A. Strong, 
Chief, Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO DUTCH ELM DISEASE 
QUARANTINE (FOREIGN) (NO. 70) 
INSTRUCTIONS TO COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS 
Quarantine No. 70, Published as T. D. 46721, Designed to Prevent Further 
Introduction into the United States of the Dutch Elm Disease, Revised 
(T. D. 47516) 
Treasury Department, 
Office of the Commissioner of Customs, 
Washington, D. C, February 5, 1935. 
To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned: 
The appended copy of Notice of Quarantine No. 70. revised, with regulations, 
designed to exclude the Dutch elm disease from introduction into the United 
States, issued by the Secretary of Agriculture, effective January 1, 1935, is 
published for the information and guidance of customs officers and others 
concerned. 
James H. Moyle 
Commissioner of Customs. 
(Then follows the full text of the quarantine.) 
ANNOUNCEMENTS RELATING TO DUTCH ELM DISEASE 
QUARANTINE (DOMESTIC) (NO. 71) 
February 2, 1935. 
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE ADVISABILITY OF QUARANTIN- 
ING THE STATES OF CONNECTICUT, NEW JERSEY, AND NEW YORK ON ACCOUNT 
OF THE DUTCH ELM DISEASE 
The Secretary of Agriculture has information that the Dutch elm disease 
(Ceratostomella ulmi Buisman (Graphium ulmi Schwarz)), a dangerous plant 
disease not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout 
the United States, exists in the States of Connecticut, New Jersey, and New 
York. 
