Section 3. Applications icill be given consideration in the order in which they 
are received. — When the application and accompanying papers are satisfactory, 
certificates to that effect will be issued and forwarded to the collector of customs 
at the port of arrival and the pedigree certificates returned to the importer or 
his agent. However, the certificates of pure breeding of the Bureau of Animal 
Industry will not be issued until the descriptions of the animals submitted by an 
inspector of the Bureau of Animal Industry at the port of arrival are received in 
Washington. Descriptions will be taken only at the time of entry of animals 
which are declared for free entry and are accompanied by proper pedigree cer- 
tificates and official transfers. All papers for animals which do not meet the 
requirements of this order will be retained or returned, at the discretion of the 
department. 
Section 4. Eligibility of animals. — Where the provisions of this order have 
been otherwise complied with, animals will be certified as purebred which have 
been fully registered in good faith in one of the books of record for one of the 
recognized breeds given in regulation 2, section 4, of this order, except those 
which have been registered on inspection. 
Regulation 2. — Recognition of Additional Breeds 
Section 1. Application for recognition. — Before an additional breed to those 
shown in section 4 of this regulation shall be added to this order the custodian 
of its book of record shall submit to the department a complete set of the pub- 
lished volumes of such books of record to date of making application, together 
with all rules and forms in force on said date affecting the registration of animals 
in said book of record. The department will consider the case on its merits 
and use such information as may be available to determine whether the breed is 
a recognized breed and whether the animals registered in the book of record are 
purebred. 
Section 2. Official communications.— All official communications submitted 
under the provisions of this order should be addressed to the Chief of the Bureau 
of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, except as 
mentioned below. 
Section 3. Books of record required. — Custodians of books of record for recog- 
nized breeds shall forward volumes of their books of record as soon as published, 
addressed to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industrv, in care of the United 
States Dispatch Agent, 2 Rector Street, New York, X. Y., U. S. A. 
Section 4. Recognized breeds. — The following breeds of domestic animals are 
recognized. Opposite will be found the names of the foreign books of record for 
these breeds, with the names and addresses of their custodians. 
Paragraph 1. Recognized breeds and books of record across the seas. 
CATTLE 
Name of breed 
Book of record 
Aberdeen Angus 
Aberdeen Angus Herdbook 
Alderney 
Ayrshire 
Herdbock of the Bailiwick of 
Guernsey (Alderney 
Branch). 
Ayrshire Herd Book. _ 
Devon 
Davy's Devon Herdbook. __.i 
Galloway 
Galloway Herdbook 
G uernsey 
English Guernsey Herdbook. _ 
Herdbook of the Bailiwick cf 
Guernsey (Guernsey 
Branch). 
Herdbock of Hereford Cattle. . 
Do 
Hereford 
Highland 
Highland Herdbook 
By whom published 
Aberdeen Angus Cattle Society, James R. Bar- 
clay, secretary, 91, Union Street, Aberdeen, 
Scotland. 
Royal Guernsey Agricultural Society, II. Mars- 
den Peake, secretary, Victoria Street, Alder- 
ney, Island of Alderney. 
Ayrshire Cattle Herd Book Society of Great 
Britain and Ireland, Hugh Bone, secretary SB, 
Allcway Street, Ayr, Scotland. 
Devon Cattle Breeders' Society, A. E. Gerrard, 
secretary, Wiveliscombe, Somerset, England. 
Galloway Cattle Society of Great Britain and 
Ireland, James Carlyle, secretary, The Oaks, 
Kirkpa trick- Fleming, Lockerbie, Dumfries- 
shire, Scotland. 
English Guernsey Cattle Society, Robert F, 
Ling, secretary, 12, Hanover Square, London, 
W. 1, England. 
Royal Guernsey Agricultural and Horticultural 
Society, Ernest de Garis, secretary, Myrtle 
Place, Castel, Island of Guernsev. 
Hereford Herd Book Society, W. G. C. Britten, 
secretary, 3, OlTa Street, Hereford, England. 
Highland Cattle Society of Scotland, Angus Cam- 
eron, secretary, National Bank, Oban, Scot- 
land. 
