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Regulation 7. Shipments by the United States Department of Agriculture 
Articles subject to restriction in these regulations may be moved interstate, 
by the United States Department of Agriculture for experimental or scientific 
purposes, on such conditions and under such safeguards as may be prescribed 
by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. The container of articles 
so moved shall bear, securely attached to the outside thereof, an identifying 
tag from the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine showing compliance 
with such conditions. 
These revised rules and regulations shall be effective on and after September 
1, 1937, and shall on that date supersede the rules and regulations promulgated 
June 24, 1931, as amended, effective February 20, 1935. 
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. 
APPENDIX 
PENALTIES 
The Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315). provides that 
no person shall ship or offer for shipment to any common 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 man- 
ner or method or under conditions other than those prescribed by the Secre- 
tary 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 conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500 or by im- 
prisonment not exceeding 1 year, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the 
discretion of the court. 
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