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SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 163 
OLIVES IN BRINE NOT RESTRICTED 
Art. 7. Olives preserved in brine, from the Department of Arica, may be 
exported or reshipped without any restriction. 
TRANSPORTATION WITHIN THE REPUBLIC 
Art. 8. The following products of the Department of Arica: Fresh olives, 
oranges, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, peppers, squash, watermelons, melons, 
peas, chick peas and vegetables in general, may depart from the port of Arica, 
after inspection made in that port by officials of the plant quarantine service, 
and provided that they are not found to be infested with the fruit 11 y, and 
that they are intended solely for the zone included between Arica and 
Taltal, inclusive. 
Art. 9. The products named in the preceding article, which are from Peru 
or Bolivia, and which have the right to depart from the port of Arica in 
virtue of effective treaties, shall comply with the requirements prescribed for 
Chilean products for the purpose of their exportation to the zone included 
between Arica and Taltal. 
Art. 10. The products mentioned in articles 8 and 9 shall be transported 
in motor launches engaged exclusively in service between Arica and Taltal ; 
but this transportation may also be effected on the regular steamship lines 
on condition that they unlade the entire products at Taltal, their reshipment 
by rail being prohibited to ports or localities situated south of Taltal. 
Art. 11. Steamship companies are prohibited from transporting to any port 
of the country fresh fruits and the other products named in article 1 of the 
present decree, and the crew and passengers shall not be allowed to have or to 
embark those products; but the transportation of the products excepted from 
the prohibition in article 2 may be effected. 
Art. 12. The railroad Longitudinal Norte shall observe the provisions of the 
preceding article for the transportation of fruit in trains. 
Art. 13. Steamship companies, railroads, especially the lines entering the 
country, transportation companies, trucks, automobiles, etc., are obliged to 
make known to the passengers the provisions of the present decree and to 
require the declarations established in article 4 of the general regulations 
of the plant quarantine service. Infractions of this provision will be sanc- 
tioned in accordance with the provisions of article 12 of the said law. 
Art. 14. Vessels that embark fresh fruits, vegetables, and other products 
whose importation is prohibited by article 1 shall not keep these products 
on board if they have to land at any port south of Taltal; but if those 
products should be intended exclusively as food for their passengers and 
crews they may be retained on board, provided that they be kept in locked 
enclosures while the vessels remain in port. In no case may tomatoes, man- 
goes, cherimoyas, guavas, or other tropical fruits be kept on board, unless 
expressly excepted from the prohibition to enter, as ordered in the present 
decree. 
An inspector of the plant quarantine service will confirm compliance with 
this provision and the vessel shall not be received if this requirement is not 
complied with. 
Art. 15. Maritime and land transportation companies, merchants and pri- 
vate persons who contravene the provisions of the present decree will incur the 
sanctions established in article 12 of the law of the plant quarantine service. 
Art. 16. Provisions dictated prior to this date, contrary to the present 
decree, are revoked. 
FRESH FRUITS FROM THE UNITED STATES 
Fresh fruits may be imported into Chile from any State of the United States, 
provided that each shipment is accompanied by a certificate issued by the 
competent American authorities, affirming that the fruit originated in a district 
free from the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis oapitata), the certificate to be 
visaed by a Chilean consul. (Minister of Agriculture of Chile through the 
American consul, Santiago, Chile, Oct. 28, 1930.) 
IMPORTATION OF POTATOES PROHIBITED 
From the date of this decree the importation is prohibited of potatoes from 
foreign sources, to prevent the introduction of the wart disease {Chrysophlyctis 
cndolwtwa) . (Decree No. 130, Apr. 28, 1931.) 
