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Procedure for Making Importations Under Regulation 44* 
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Application blank * The Federal Horticultural Board will supply, on 
request, a form of application for special permit to import nursery stock and 
other plants and seeds under the provisions of regulation 14* This applica¬ 
tion, under r, Gonditions of, Entry,* 1 explains the bonding requirements and also 
the conditions of packing, inspection, and clearance through the Custom House* 
It also embodies various agreements which must be subscribed to by the importer 
to safeguard the importation* The application.must be filled out as to all 
the info irrational data called for and must be signed by the applicant, and 
forwarded to the & Federal Horticultural Board. The applicant should also in¬ 
dicate whether the importation is intended for commercial propagation or for- 
a public institution, or is requested by an amateur as defined in a preceding 
paragraph. • • 
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Permit and shipping tag s. If the permit is issued, th9 applicant will 
be furnished with a blank fonn of # bond to be executed and returned to the 
Board, and also with shipping instructions’and shipping tags to be forwarded 
with his order to the exporter. With the exception of transpacific shipments 
for western destinations, such shippingtags will be addressed to the U* S. 
department of Agricuiture, Federal Horticultural Board, Washington, B. C. 9 but 
will be endorsed with the permit number and name of the importer* Transpacific 
shipments for all western points entering through the port of San Francisco 
may be given inspection and clearance at that*port in the same manner as at 
Washington. 
* Delivery to Board in bond* Material coming t® Washington must be turned 
over to the Federal Horticultural Board by the importer or his authorised 
agent, ^and in the specially equipped inspection, houses and under ex]j8,rt care 
as to the welfare of the plants, it will be carefully examined by the Board’s 
inspectors* If the shipment is fouhd to comply with the conditions of entry 
and to be free from dangerous insects or diseases, it will be immediately 
repacked and forwarded, charges collect, to the importer* 
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Shipments for clearance at San Francpsco'wvill, be /Similarly .handled by 
the agents of the t Board— Ferry Building, San Francisco* 
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Disinfection * Disinfection will be authorised for slight infestation, 
but should the material be found to be so infected or^infested with either 
diseases or inserts ^th^at it can not be adequately disinfected, it^ will either 
be destroyed* or, .when desired, permission^may^be granted for rtfs* exportation* 
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Storage and repacking . So far as possible the Board will undertake to 
^provide, .jgpr, s^qr?age and rep^pkdng. Shout'd ? imposjters requesjb, however,* permits 
covering the importation of larger quantities of propagating or other stock 
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