272 BUREAU OF PLANT QUARANTINE [Oct.-Dec. 
be allowed entry Into this country with safety. The Intent of this revision of the 
seed or paddy rice quarantine, hereafter to be known as the rice quarantine, and 
its accompanying regulations, is to permit the importation of rice straw and 
rice bulls, with treatment as a condition of entry, at approved i>orts where ade- 
quate facilities for such treatment are available. 
Avery S. Hoyt, 
Acting Chief, Bureau of Plant Quarantine. 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. 55 (REVISED) 
(Approved Nov. 23, 1933; effective Nov. 23, 1933) 
The fact has been determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, and notice is 
hereby given. (1) that injurious fungous diseases of rice, including downy 
mildew (Sclero.spora maeroearpa) . leaf smut (Entyloma oryzae), blight 
(Oospora oryztorum), and glume blotch < Melanomma gtuinarum), as well as 
dangerous insect pests, new to and not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed 
within and throughout the United States, exist, as to one or more of such dis- 
eases and pests, in Europe, Asia, Africa, Central America, South America, and 
other foreign countries and localities, and may be introduced into this country 
through importations of seed or paddy rice, rice straw, and rice hulls, and (2) 
that the unrestricted importation of seed or paddy rice from the Republic of 
Mex'co and of rice straw and rice hulls from all foreign countries and localities 
may result in the entry into the United States of the injurious plant diseases 
heretofore enumerated, as well as insect pests. 
Now. therefore. I. H. A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, under authority 
conferred by the act of Congress approved August 20. 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as 
amended, do hereby declare that it is necessary, in order to prevent the intro- 
duction into the United States of the insect pests and plant diseases referred 
to, to forbid the importation into the United States of seed or paddy rice from 
all foreign countries and localities except the Republic of Mexico, ana" to re- 
strict the importation of seed or paddy rice from the Republic of Mexico, and 
of rice straw and rice hulls from all foreign countries and localities. 
On and after November 23, 1933, by virtue of the said act of Congress, the 
importation of seed or paddy rice into the United States from all foreign 
countries and localities except the Republic of Mexico is prohibited, and the 
importation of seed or paddy rice from the Republic of Mexico and of rice 
straw and rice hulls from all foreign countries and localities is forbidden except 
in accordance with the rules and regulations supplemental hereto. 
This revision shall become effective on and after November 23, 1933. and 
shall supersede Notice of Quarantine No. 55 promulgated February 20, 1933, 
effective July 1. 1933. 
Done at the city of Washington this 23d day of November 1933. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of 
Agriculture. 
I seal] H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
REVISED RULES AND REGULATIONS SUPPLEMENTAL TO NOTICE OF QUARANTINE 
NO. 55, THE RICE QUARANTINE 
Regulation 1. Definitions 
(a) Seed or paddy rice. — Unbusked rice in the form commonly used for 
seed purposes; these regulations do not apply to husked or polished rice 
imported for food purposes. 
(6) Port of first arrival. — The first port within the United States where 
the shipment is (1) offered for consumption entry or (2) offered for entry for 
immediate transportation in bond. 
(c) Inspector. — An inspector of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine of the 
United States Department of Agriculture. 
