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of the Secretary of Agriculture, shall be issued to the owner or 
owners thereof by the said inspector and this certificate shall 
operate to release all the objects above specified, when duly 
stamped or labelled with the same from further quarantine or 
restriction either at the said port of entry or in inter-state com¬ 
merce. Any person who shall forge, counterfeit, or knowingly 
alter, deface, or destroy anj' of the marks, stamps, or certificates, 
provided for in the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, on 
any such trees, plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, scions, nursery stock 
or fruit, or who shall forge, counterfeit, or knowingly and wrong¬ 
fully alter, deface or destroy anj- certificate as provided for in said 
regulations, shall he deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on 
conviction thereof, shall he punished by a fine not to exceed five 
hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or both, 
at the discretion of the court. 
Sec. 4. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of 
Agriculture that any foreign country shall have provided proper 
and competent inspection and treatment, in accordance with the 
provisions of this Act, for the objects above specified as being 
subject to inspection and treatment, he may, by proclamation 
or otherwise, accept such inspection and treatment in lieu of 
inspection iserformed by ofiicers appointed by himself, which 
acceptation or proclamation by the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
relieve all such articles specified in the foregoing sections of this 
Act, when properly stamped or labelled, from further quarantine or 
restrictions. 
Sec. 5. That the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be 
inspected and properly treated at the expense of the owner or 
owners, prior to their shipment all trees, plants, buds, cuttings, 
grafts, scions and nursery stock which are subjects of inter-state 
commerce, and which are about to be transported from one state 
or territory or the District of Columbia, into another state or ter¬ 
ritory or the District of Columbia. 
Sec. 6. That the said examination shall be made in the manner 
provided for by the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secre¬ 
tary of Agriculture, and that after such examination the trees, 
plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, scions or nursery stock found to 
be apparently free from dangerously injurious insects or diseases 
shall be marked,, stamped or labelled for identification, as may be 
provided tor by said rules and regulations of the Secretary of 
Agriculture, and when so stamped or labelled they shall not be 
