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 March 4, 
1917 (39 Stat. 1134, 1365), and having duly given the public hearing required 
thereby, I do quarantine each and every State of the continental United States 
and the District of Columbia, effective on and after September 1, 1937. Here- 
after, under the authority of said act of August 20, 1912, amended as aforesaid, 
no plants of common barberry or other species of Berberis or Mahonia, or parts 
thereof capable of propagation, shall be shipped, offered for shipment to a 
common carrier, received for transportation or transported by a common car- 
rier, or carried, transported, moved, or allowed to be moved from any of said 
quarantined States or District into any of the protected States, namely, Colo- 
rado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, 
North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, 
Wisconsin, and Wyoming, nor from any one of said protected States into any 
other protected State, in manner or method or under conditions other than 
those prescribed in the rules and regulations hereinafter made and in amend- 
ments thereto. 
Done at the city of Washington this 4th day of August 1937. 
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. 
M. L. Wilson. 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 
REVISED RULES AND REGULATIONS SUPPLEMENTAL TO NOTICE OF 
QUARANTINE NO. 38 
(Approved Aug. 4, 1937; effective Sept. 1, 1937) 
Regulation 1. Definitions 
For the purpose of these regulations the following words, names, and terms 
shall be construed, respectively, to mean: 
(a) Black stem rust. — The disease known as the black stem rust of grains 
(Puccinia graminis) in any stage of development. 
(b) Berberis. — Any plants, cuttings, stocks, scions, buds, fruits, seeds, or 
parts of plants of any species, variety, or hybrid of the genus Beroeris, capable 
of propagation ; commonly known as barberries. 
(c) Mahonia. — Any plants, cuttings, stocks, scions, buds, fruits, seeds, or 
parts of plants of any species, variety, or hybrid of the genera Mahonia (Odos- 
temon) or Mahoberberis, capable of propagation; commonly known as ma- 
honias, hollygrapes, holly barberries, or Oregon grapes. 
(d) Inspector. — An inspector of the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture. 
(e) Moved or allowed to be moved interstate. — 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 one State 
or District of the continental United States into any other State or District. 
Regulation 2. Restrictions on the Movement of Berberis and Mahonia 
(a) No Berberis or Mahonia shall be moved or allowed to be moved interstate 
from any State of the continental United States or from the District of Colum- 
bia into any of the protected States, namely, Colorado, Illinois. Indiana, Iowa, 
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Penn- 
sylvania, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, nor 
from any one of said protected Slates into any other protected State, Unless a 
permit shall have been issued therefor by the United States Department of 
Agriculture, except that no restrictions are placed by those regulations on the 
interstate movement either of Japanese barberry (Herberts thunberfftt) or any 
of its rust-resistant varieties, or of cuttings (without roots) of MaJionia shipped 
for decorative purposes and not for propagation. 
(b) No Berberis or Mahonia <»!' species, varieties, or hybrids sufficiently sus- 
ceptible to infection by black stem rust, iu the judgment of the Department, to 
