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This revision places no restrictions on the interstate movement from nonin- 
fested States of articles which have originated outside of Florida. Florida 
is the only State definitely known at this time to have groves or orchards 
infested with the Mediterranean fruit fly. 
MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT-FLY QUARANTINE 
Quarantine No. GS. — Revision of Quarantine and Regulations 
NOTICE OF QUARANTINE NO. GS (REVISED) 
(Approved June 7, 1929 ; effective June 7, 1929) 
I, Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, having found that an infestation 
of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata Wied.), a dangerous insect 
pest new to and not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within and 
throughout the United States, exists in the State of Florida, in order to pre- 
vent the spread of such Mediterranean fruit fly by (1) the shipment or move- 
ment of any of the articles, vehicles, and containers hereinafter mentioned 
from the State of Florida into the States of Alabama. Arkansas. Arizona. 
California, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North 
Carolina, Oklahoma. Oregon. South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee. Utah, and 
Washington, or into the Territory of Porto Rico; or the shipment or move- 
ment otherwise than as permitted by regulations hereinafter referred to of 
articles, containers, and vehicles hereinafter mentioned from the State of Florida 
to States other than those mentioned above and the Territories and the District 
of Columbia; (2) the shipment or movement otherwise than as permitted by 
regulations hereinafter referred to of articles, vehicles, and containers herein- 
after mentioned from any other State which may become infested with said 
fly; (3) the shipment or movement into the States mentioned in subdivision (1), 
or into the Territory of Porto Rico, of such articles, vehicles, and containers 
originating in or moving from an infested State to authorized destinations in 
a noninfested State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, have determined 
that, for the accomplishment of the purposes sei forth in (1) it is nee< 
to quarantine the State of Florida; and for the purposes of (2) and (3) it is 
necessary to quarantine each and every State in the continental United States 
and the District of Columbia. 
Now, therefore, under authority conferred by section S of the plant quar- 
antine act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act or* March 
4, 1917 (39 Stat, 1134, 1165), having duly given the public hearing required 
thereby, and to effectuate the purposes aforesaid, I do quarantine the State of 
Florida and each and every other State of the continental United States and the 
District of Columbia effective on and after June 7. 1929. 
For the purpose of this quarantine any State, Territory, or District of the 
United States in which the Mediterranean fruit fly is determined to be estab- 
lished will be designated as an infested State, Territory, or District; all other 
States, Territories, or Districts for the purpose of this quarantine will be desig- 
nated as noninfested States, Territories, or Districts. 
Restrictions Applying to Infested States, Territories, or the District of Columbia 
Hereafter, under the authority of said act of August 20, 1912, amended as 
aforesaid, (1) fruits, vegetables, and garden and orchard products of all kinds; 
(2) sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, and manure; (3) railway ears, boats, and 
other vehicles, and containers which have been used in conveying fruits or 
tables; (4) fruit-packing equipment and all other articles Including nursery 
stock which have been associated with the production of or commerce in fruits 
or vegetables or have been or arc contaminated with sand, soil, earth, peat, 
compost, or manure shall not be shipped, offered for shipmenl to a common 
carrier, received for transportation or transported by a common earri 
carried, transported, moved, or allowed to be moved from any Infested state 
into or through any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia in 
manner or method or under conditions other than those prescribed in the 
rules and regulations hereinafter made and in amendments thereto, or in the 
revised rules and regulations supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No 
