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subject to further quarantine or restriction in inter-state commerce. 
Any person who shall forge, counterfeit or knowingly alter, deface 
or destroy any of the marks, stamps or said devices provided for in 
the regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture on any such trees, 
plants, buds, cuttings, grafts, scions and nursery stock, or who shall 
forge, counterfeit or knowingly or wrongfully alter, deface or 
destroy any certificate provided for in said regulations sfmll be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall 
be punished by a fine not exceeding five hujidred dollars or 
imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such punishments 
at the discretion of the court. 
Sec. 7. That it shall be unlawful for any person, persons or cor¬ 
poration to transport from one State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia into any other State or Territory or the District of 
Columbia, or for any person, persons, or corporation to deliver to 
any other person, persons, or corporation or to the postal service of 
the United States, except for scientific purposes by permission or 
direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, for transportation from 
one State or Territory or the District of Columbia into any other 
State or Territory or the District of Columbia any trees, plants, 
buds, cuttings, grafts, scions or nursery stock which have not 
been examined in accordance with the provisions in Sections 
5 and 6 of this Act, or which on said examination have been 
declared by the inspector to be dangerously infested with injurious 
insects or diseases. Any person, persons or corporation violating 
the provisions of this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and 
upon conviction thereof shall be punished for such offense as pro¬ 
vided in Section 6 of this Act. 
Sec. 8. That whenever it shall appear to the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture that any State, Territory, District, corporation, firm or per¬ 
son 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 and treatment by officers appointed 
by himself, which acceptation or proclamation by the said Secretary 
of Agriculture, shall relieve all such articles specified in Sections 
5, 6 and 7 of this Act, when pro^jerly stamped or labelled, from 
further quarantine or restrictions in inter-State commerce. 
Sec. 9. That the sum of fifty thousand dollars or so much 
thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated out of any 
