182 BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE [April-June 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO PACKING-MATERIALS 
QUARANTINE (NO. 69) 
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 69 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE 
This amendment, which is made concurrent with the date on which the 
quarantine first becomes effective, has relation only to the list of prohibited 
materials, permitting exceptions to be made therefrom in the case of specific 
packing materials in which it is judged that the pest risk has been reduced or 
eliminated by the method of preparation, process, or manufacture. 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief. Bureau of Plant Quarantine. 
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 69 
[Approved June 28. 1933 : effective July 1, 1933} 
Under authority conferred by the Plant Quarantine Act approved August 
20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315) as amended, it is ordered that section 1 of Notice 
of Quarantine No. 69, approved February 20, 1933. effective July 1, 1933, be 
and the same is hereby amended to read : 
1. On and after July 1, 1933. the following plants and plant products, when 
used as packing materials, are prohibited entry into the United States from 
the countries and localities named : 
(a) Rice straw, hulls, and chaff; from all countries. 
(b) Corn and allied plants (maize, sorghum, broomcorn, Sudan grass, 
napier grass, jobs-tears, teosinte, Polytoca, Sclerachne, Chionaclme) ; all parts, 
from ail countries except Mexico, and the countries of Central America, the 
West Indies, and South America. 
(c) Cotton and cotton products (lint, waste, seed cotton, cottonseed, and 
cottonseed hulls) ; from all countries. 
(d) Sugarcane: all parts of the plant including bagasse, from all countries. 
(e) Bamboo; leaves and small shoots, from all countries. 
(f) Leaves of plants; from all countries. 
(ff) Forest litter; from all countries. 
(h) Soil containing an appreciable admixture of vegetable matter, from all 
countries, except such types of soil or earth as are authorized as safe for packing 
by the rules and regulations promulgated supplemental to this quarantine. 
Exceptions to the above prohibitions may be authorized in the case of specific 
materials which have been so prepared, manufactured, or processed that in the 
judgment of the inspector no pest risk is involved in their entry. 
This amendment shall be effective on and after July 1, 1933. 
Done at the city of Washington this 28th day of June 1933. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of Agriculture. 
[SEAL] R. G. TUGWELL, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
ANNOUNCEMENT RELATING TO SEED- OR PADDY-RICE 
QUARANTINE (NO. 55) 
INSTRUCTIONS TO COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS 
Revision of Quarantine and Regulations Covering Importation of Seed ob 
Faddy Rice (T.D. 46373) 
Treasury Department, 
Office of the Commissioner of Customs. 
Washington. B.C., May 2, 1933. 
To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned: 
The appended copy of Notice of Quarantine No. 55, revised (seed- or paddy- 
rice quarantine i. with revised regulations, adding rice straw and rice hulls to 
