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required treatment must be given within 20 days after arrival, but if any 
shipment of rice straw or rice hulls shall be found upon arrival to be dan- 
gerously infested or infected the inspector may direct immediate treatment 
under adequate safeguards; and if the treatment and safeguards are not put 
into effect as directed the shipment shall be removed from the country 
immediately or destroyed. 
Unless, within 20 days after the date of arrival of a shipment at the port 
at which the formal entry was filed, the importation has received the re- 
quired treatment, due notice of which shall be given to the collector of customs 
by the inspector, demand will be made by the collector for redelivery of the 
shipment into customs custody under the terms of* the entry bond, and, if such 
redelivery is not made, the shipment shall be removed from the country or 
destroyed. 
General. — All charges for storage, cartage, and labor incident to inspection 
and disinfection, other than the services of the inspector, shall be paid by the 
importer. 
All shipments shall be so baled, bagged, or wrapped as to prevent scattering 
or wastage. If, in the judgment of the inspector, a shipment is not so bagged, 
baled, or wrapped, it shall be reconditioned at the expense of the permittee 
or entry may be refused. 
B. IMPORTATIONS BY MAIL 
Regulation 7. Importations by Mail 
Regulations 2 to 6 provide for importations otherwise than through the 
mails. Importations of seed or paddy rice from Mexico, and of rice straw and 
rice hulls from all foreign countries and localities, may be made by mail pro- 
vided (1) that a permit has been issued for the importation in accordance with 
regulations 2 and 4 and (2) that each shipment is accompanied from the for- 
eign mailing point by a special mailing tag directing the package to a Bureau 
of Plant Quarantine inspection station for inspection and, if necessary, for 
treatment, before being released to the mails for delivery to the importer, 
unless entry is refused in accordance with the provisions of regulation 6. The 
special mailing tags will be furnished on request to the importer for trans- 
mission in advance to his foreign shipper. 
These revised rules and regulations shall be effective on and after Novem- 
ber 23, 1933. and shall on that date supersede the rules and regulations promul- 
gated 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. 
[seal] H. A. Wallace, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
Instructions to Collectors of Customs 
Rice Quarantine — Revtsion of Quarantine and Regulations Governing the 
Importation of Seed or Paddy Rice (T.D. 46809) 
Treasury Department, 
Office of the Commissioner of Customs, 
Washington, D.C., December 20, 193S. 
To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned : 
The appended copy of Rice Quarantine No. 55, revised, with revised regula- 
tions, issued by the Secretary of Agriculture, effective November 23, 1933, 
permitting the importation of rice straw and rice hulls, with treatment as a 
condition of entry, at approved ports, is published for the information and 
guidance ot customs officers and others concerned. 
James II. Moyle, 
Commissioner of Customs. 
[Then follows the full text of the quarantine and regulations.] 
