1929] SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS 81 
MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT-FLY QUARANTINE 
Notice of Quarantine No. 68 
[Approved April 2G, 1929 ; effective May 1, 1929] 
I, Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, have determined that it is 
necessary to quarantine the State of Florida to prevent the spread of the 
Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis c&pitata Wied.), a dangerous insect new to 
and not heretofore widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout the 
United States. 
Now, therefore, under authority conferred by section 8 of the plant quaran- 
tine act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended by the act of Congress 
approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134, 1165), and having duly given the public 
hearing required thereby, I do quarantine the said State of Florida, effective 
on and after May 1, 1929. 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 cars, boats, and other vehicles and containers which have been 
used in conveying fruits or vegetables; (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 are con- 
taminated with sand, soil, earth, peat, compost, or manure shall not be shipped, 
offered for shipment to a common carrier, received for transportation, or trans- 
ported by a common carrier, or carried, transported, moved, or allowed to be 
moved from the said quarantined State of Florida into or through any other 
State or Territory or District of the United States in manner or method or 
under conditions other than those prescribed in the rules and regulations here- 
inafter made and in amendments thereto : Provided, That the restrictions of 
this quarantine and of the rules and regulations supplemental thereto may be 
limited to the areas in a quarantined State now, or which may hereafter be, 
designated by the Secretary of Agriculture as regulated areas, when, in the 
judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, such limitation shall be adequate to 
prevent the spread of the Mediterranean fruit fly 1 to other States and Terri- 
tories, and when the movement of the restricted articles intrastate from such 
regulated areas is so safeguarded as to prevent the spread of the Mediter- 
ranean fruit fly therefrom to other parts of the quarantined State and thence 
into interstate commerce: Provided further, That the restrictions in the regu- 
lations supplemental to this quarantine applying to the infested zone shall apply 
immediately to the infested area designated in the quarantine promulgated on 
April 15, 1929, by the State Plant Board of Florida and to such additional 
Infested points as have been determined and are being controlled by the said 
State pant hoard until the State plant board shall have designated infested 
and protective zones as defined in the regulations supplemental hereto. 
Done at the city of Washington this 26th day of April, 1!)L' ( .). 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United states Department of Agriculture. 
[seal. | Artiitk M. Hyde, 
retary of Agriculture. 
Rules and Regulation^ Supplemental to Notice of Quarantine No. GS 
[Approved April 26, 1929; effective May i. 1929] 
ia:«ll LATION I . Dl I | \ ITIONS 
For the purpose of these regulations the following words, names, and terms 
shall be construed, respectively, to mean: 
(a) Fruit Hies. The insects known as the Mediterranean fruit fly {CeratittS 
oapitata Wied.) in any stage of development. 
(&) The terms "infested," "infestation," and the like relate to inf. station 
with the Mediterranean fruit fly, 
(c) Quarantined state. Any State Quarantined by the Secretary of Agricul- 
ture to prevent the spread of the Mediterranean fruit fly. 
ir Tho Interstate transportation of living Mediterranean trull fllei In any itage of devel 
onmont nnd for any purpose is prohibited under the provision! of tti»- act approved Mar. :'.. 
1005 (33 Stat. 1289). 
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