122 PLANT QUARANTINE AND CONTROL ADMINISTRATION [April-June 
Appendix 
penalties 
The plant quarantine act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), provides that nc 
person shall ship or offer for shipment to any comon carrier, nor shall any 
common carrier receive for transportation or transport, nor shall any person 
carry or transport from any quarantined State or Territory or District of the 
United States, or from any quarantined portion thereof, into or through any 
other State or Territory or District, any class of nursery stock or any other 
class of plants, fruits, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, * * * or any other 
article * * * specified in the notice of quarantine * * * in manner or 
method or under conditions other than those prescribed by the Secretary of 
Agriculture. It also provides that any person who shall violate any of the 
provisions of this act, or who shall forge, counterfeit, alter, deface, or destroy 
any certificate provided for in this act or in the regulations of the Secretary 
of Agriculture, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon con- 
viction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment 
not exceeding one year, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion 
of the court. 
STATE AND FEDERAL INSPECTION 
The States of Georgia and Alabama have promulgated or are about to pro- 
mulgate quarantines restricting intrastate movement supplemental to the 
Federal quarantine. These State quarantines are enforced in cooperation with 
the Federal authorities. Copies of either the Federal or State quarantine 
orders may be obtained by addressing United States Department of Agriculture, 
Plant Quarantine and Control Administration, Washington, D. C. 
Early in June a subsidiary office will be established in the office of the State 
entomologist at Atlanta, Ga. 
Notice to Common Carriers 
Washington, D. C, April 30, 1929. 
Sir: You are requested to date and sign the blank receipt below, indicat- 
ing your official title, and mail this sheet to the Secretary of Agriculture in the 
inclosed penalty envelope, which requires no postage. 
Notice is hereby given to the transportation company you represent, as fol- 
lows: 
That the Secretary of Agriculture, under authority of the act approved 
August 20, 1912, known as the plant quarantine act (37 Stat. 315), as amended 
by the act of Congress approved March 4, 1917 (39 Stat. 1134, 1165), has, by 
Notice of Quarantine No. 67, effective on and after June 1, 1929, quarantined 
the States of Georgia and Alabama to prevent the spread of the phony peach 
disease and has ordered that no peach trees, peach roots, nectarine trees, necta- 
rine roots, or any kinds or varieties of trees or shrubs grafted or budded on 
peach or nectarine roots shall be shipped, offered for shipment to a common 
carrier, received for transportation or transported by a common carrier, or 
carried, transported, moved, or allowed to be moved from the said quarantined 
States in manner or method or under conditions other than those prescribed 
in the rules and regulations supplemental to said quarantine or in amendments 
thereto. 
Very respectfully, 
Arthur M. Hyde, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
(Inclosures.) 
[Do not detach this receipt] 
Received this notice and the copy of Notice of Quarantine No. 67, with rules 
and regulations mentioned therein this day of 1929. 
(Signature) 
(Title) 
[Sent to all common carriers doing business within and throughout the States ot 
Georgia and Alabama.] 
