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AUTIIOR1ZKD PORT OF ENTRY 
(a) AH such plants and packages shall be landed at the port of Nassau, 
except when permission has been obtained from the board to land the same 
;it any other port or place in the Colony, upon such conditions as may be 
determined by the board. 
SHIPMENTS TO BE DELIVERED TO COMPTROLLER OF CUSTOMS 
{b) All such plants and packages shall be delivered up by the importer 
to the comptroller of customs, who shall cause them to be conveyed to such 
place as shall be determined by the board, and the comptroller may also 
for such purpose take charge of any such plants and packages immediately 
on their arrival in the Colony, and prior to the delivery thereof to the importer. 
Upon such delivery the comptroller shall give to the importer a receipt showing 
the time and date of such delivery. 
DISINFECTION MAY BE WAIVED IF PHYTOSANITARY CERTIFICATE PRESENTED 
Art. 2. If the importer of any plants imported under these rules produces 
to the board a certificate of a recognized State authority at the place from 
which such plants were exported that the nursery, plantation, field, or land 
from which the plants have come is free from any harmful or dangerous 
disease, such plants and the packages that contain the same will be delivered 
to the importer without undergoing any process of fumigation or disinfection, 
unless the board deems it otherwise necessary. If no such certificate is pro- 
duced, it shall be the duty of the inspector to examine such plants and pack- 
ages, and if he is satisfied that they are free from any harmful or dangerous 
disease he shall, on obtaining the authority of the chairman of the board, 
deliver the same to the importer. 
IMPORTED PLANT MATERIAL MAY BE DISINFECTED 
Art. 3. If the board deems it necessary, any plants and packages imported 
under these rules may be fumigated, disinfected, cleansed, purified, and treated 
in such manner and under such condition as the board may consider adequate 
for the destruction of any vegetable or insect pests that may possibly be on or 
among such plants and packages. No liability shall attach to the board in 
respect of any damage occasioned by such treatment. 
Art. 4. All plants and packages imported under these rules may be seized 
by and forfeited to the board, and may be destroyed or otherwise dealt with 
as the Governor in Council may direct. 
Abt. 5. All plants and packages shall be moved from any place of fumiga- 
tion or other treatment by the importer within 24 hours after he has been 
required by the board to remove the same. Failing such removal, the Governor 
in Council shall be at liberty to order the destruction of such plants and 
packages or deal otherwise with them at the discretion of the board. 
procedure for mail shipments 
It is required that the importer of plants shipped to the Colony by mail 
shall at once notify an inspector and the postal official also shall notify the 
inspector within 24 hours of the arrival of the shipment. The importer shall 
not take possession of such a shipment until an inspector's certificate has been 
issued. Mail shipments of plants shall be treated in accordance with the 
provisions of article 3, if deemed necessary. 
CERTIFICATE OF ORIGIN REQUIRED FOR PLANT MATERIAL FROM FLORIDA 
(Proclamation gazetted Oct. 12, 1929) 
Whereas the proclamation of July 31, 1920, prohibited the importation of 
plants, fruits, or vegetables into the colony from the State of Florida until 
October 31, 1929, the said prohibition is hereby varied to the extent that until 
further notice the importation into the Bahama Islands, directly or indirectly, 
from any port or place in the said State of Florida of the said products is 
