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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Federal Horticultural Board

C. L. Marlatt, Chairman; W. A. Orton, George B. Sudworth, W. D. Hunter,
Karl F. Kellerman. R. C. Althouse, Assistant to the Chairman.

RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE MOVEMENT OF PLANTS
AND PLANT PRODUCTS INTO AND OUT OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA} EFFECTIVE ON AND AFTER
SEPTEMBER 1, 1920.

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

United States Department of Agriculture,

Federal Horticultural Board,
Washington, D. C., July 27, 1920.

Hon. E. T. Meredith,
Secretary of Aprisulture .
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The Federal Horticultural Board respectfully submits for your
approval rules and regulations governing the. movement of plants and
plant products into and out of the Déstrict of Golumbia, Authority
for these regulations is given in the amendment to the Plant Quarantine
Act, approved August 20, 1912, contained in the act making appropria~
tions for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1921, approved May 31, 1920.

fhe purpose of the amendmen t is to provide authority to regulate
the movement of plants and plant products, including nursery stock,
from or into the District of Columbia, and power to control injurious
plant diseases and insect pests within said District. The cies pam

follows: yee
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t jn aeder See ver ta control aie eradicate and
ee dissemination of dangerous plant diseases
and insect infections and infestations no plant or plant
products for or capable of propagation, including nursery
stock, hereinafter peferred to as plants and plant products,
shall be moved or allowed to be moved, shipped, transported,
or carried by any means whatever into or out of the District
of Columbia, except in compliance with such rules and regu-
lations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Agri-~
culture as hereinafter previded. Whenever the Secretary of
Agriculture, after investigation, shall determine that any
plants and plant products in the District of Columbia are
infested or infected with insect pests and diseases and
that aay place, aprieree, and substances used or connected
ase Se “ted or infected, written notice there-
im to the owner or person in possession

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or control thereof, and such owner or person shall forthwith
control or eradicate and prevent the dissemination of such
insect pest or disease and sha]1 remove, cut, or destroy
such infested and infected plants, plant products, and
articles and substances used or connected therewith, which
are hereby declared to be nuisances, within the time and in
the manner required in said notice or by the rules and regu~
lations: of the Secretary of Agricultuve. Whenever such
owner or person can nyot be found, or shall fail, neglect, or
refuse to comply with the foregoing provisiouss of this sec-
tion , the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and
required to control and eradicate and prevent dissemination
of such insect pest or disease and to remove, cut, or destroy
infested or infected plants and plant products and articles
and substances used or connected therewith, and the United
States shall have an action of debt against such shee ae

S i r + S 4 ericulture
ROP egre (er gepengce tnouered Oy te aorel wovaewltoveal Board
are hereby authorized and required to inspect places, plants
and plant products and articles and substances used or con~
nected therewith whenever the Secretary of Agriculture shall
determine that such inspections are necessary for the purposes
of this section, For the purpose of carrying out the provi-
sions and requirements of this section and of the rules and
regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture made hereunder,
and the notices given pursuant thereto, employeds of the |
Federal Horticultural Board shall have power with a warrant
to enter into or upon any place and open any bundle, package,
or other container of plants or plant products whenever they
shall have cause to believe that infections or infestations
of plant pests and diseases exist therein or thereon, and
when such infections of infestations are found to exist,
after notice by the Secretary of Agriculture to the ower
or person in possession or control thereof and an opporbunity
by said owner or person to be heard, to destroy the infected
or infested plants or plant products contained therein. The
police court or the mmicipal court of the District of Col-
umbia shall have power, upon information supported by oath or
Affirmation showing probable cause for believing that there
exists in any place, tundle, package, or other container in
the District of Columbia any plant or plant product which is
infected or infested with plant pests or disease, to issue
warrants for the search for and seizure of all such plants
and plant products. It shall be the duty of the Secretary
of Agriculture, and he is hereby required, from time to time,
to make and promulgate such rules and regulations as shall
be necessary to carry out the purposes of this section, and
any person who shall move or allow to be moved, or shall ship,
transport, or cariy, by any means whatever, any plant or
plant product from or into the District of Columbia, except
" 7 ittanes efth tho males and regulations prescribed under

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this section, shall be punished, as is provided in sectiion
10 of this Act. "

The powers given in the above act and the regulations which
follow are similar to those at present exercised by State or Ter
ritory officials in practically all of the States and Territories
of the United States,

Respectfully,

Cc. L, MARLATT, Chairman.

Approved: :
R, W, WILLIAMS? Solicitor.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Office of the Secretary

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RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE MOVEMENT OF PLANTS AND
PLANT PRODUCTS INTO AND OUT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

For the purposes of controlling and eradicating and preventing
the dissemination of dangerous plant diseases and insect infections and

infestations, I, B, 2, MPREDITH, Secretary of Agriculture, under authoriy

conferred by the Act of August 20, 1912 (37 Stat. 315), as amended by the
Act making appropriationss for theDepartment of Agriculture for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1921, approved May 31, 1920 (Public No. 234 = 66th
Congress), the following regulations are hereby made, and I do order that,
with the exception of (a) fruits, vegetables, cereals, and other plant
products imported for food, medicinal or manufacturing purposes, and (b)
seeds (except those addressed to the Department of Agriculture), no
plants or plant products shall move into or out of the District of
Columbia except in compliance with said rules and regulations and such

other: rules, regulations and notices of quarantine referred to therein

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or which may hereafter be promulgated.
Said regulations shall become and be effective on and after
September 1, 1920.
Done in the District of Columbia this 26th day of August, 19.
Witness my hand and the seal of the United States Department of

Agriculture,

(sgd) E, T. MEREDITH, ~
Secretary of Agriculture.

(SEAL)

RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE MOVEMENT OF PLANTS

AND PLANT PRODUCTS INTO AND OUT OF
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMIBA.

Regulation 1. Definition.

The words "Blants and plant products" whenever used in these
regulations shall include all greenhouse and field-grown florists! stock,
trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scious, buds, fruit pits and
other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs, and other plants
and plant products for propagation.

IMPORTATION DF PLANTS AND PDANT PRODUCTS.
Regulation 2. Unrestricted Importation of Plants and Plant Products.

The following classes of plants and plant products, not includ-
ing, however, those which are governed by special quarantine and other
restrictive orders now in force, nor such as may hereafter be made the
subject of special quarantines, will be admitted into the District of
Columbia without restriction: =

(a) Fruits, vegetables, cereals, and other plant
products imported for food, medicinal, or manu-
facturing purposes.

(b) Seeds (except those addressed to the Department
af Agriculture.)

Regulation 3. Restricted Importation of Plants and Plant Products.

All plants and plant products, except those mentioned in
Regulation 2, those addressed to the U. S. Department of Agrialture,
and those governed by special quarantine and other restrictive orders
now in force, or such as may hereafter be made the subject of special
quarantines, will be admitted into the District of Columbia upon com-
pliance with the following requirements:

(a) Each package mst be accompanied by a certificate
of inspection indicating that the nursery from which
the plants were taken was inspected within one year
prior to the date of shipment and signed by the State
Nursery or Horticultural Inspector of the State or
Territory from which .the plants or plant products were
shipped.

(b) The package, bundle, or other container, must be plain-
ly marked with the word "plants" and with the name and
address of the consignor and the name and address of the

consignee.

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(c) No package, bundle, or other container, conveyingg re-
stricted plants or plant products, shall be delivered

to the consignee in the District of Columbia by any
common carrier wmtil ‘its delivery is authorized by an

inspector of the Federal Horticultural Board.

Regulation 4, Importations of Plants and Plant Products by the
Department of Agriculture.

All plants and plant products prohibited, restricted, or
unrestricted, addressed to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, shall
be delivered only to the Inspection H8use of the Hederal Hortimltural
Board (12th & B Streets, N. W.), unless otherwise authorized by an
inspector of the Federal Horticubtural Board.

Regulation 5, Prohibited Importations.

Five-leafed pine and black currant plants originating in Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, gnd
New York, are prohibited entry into the District of Columbia by quar-
antine No. 26, effective June 1, 1917.

Regulation 6. Regulated Importations. of Plants and Plant Broducts.

Hhe following plants and plant products shall not move from
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut into the District of Columbia except as prescribed in Notice
of Quarantine No, 45, effective July 1, 1920, and in the mles and
CSE ae supplemental thereto (Gipsy Moth and Brown-tail Moth Quar=
antine):

(a) Coniferous trees, such as spruce, fir, hemlock,
pine, juniper (cedar), and arbor-vitae (white
cedar), known and described as "Christmas Trees, "
and parts thereof, and decorative plants, such as
holly and laurel, imown and described as "Christ-
mas greens or greenery."

(bv) Forest-plant products, including logs, tanbark,
posts, poles, oar stakes, railroad ties, cord wood,

and lumber.

(c) Field-grown florists! stock, trees, shrubs, vines,
cuttings, and other plants and plant products, ex-
cepting fruit pits, seeds of fruit and ornamental
trees and shrubs, field, vegetable, and flower seeds,
bedding plants, and other herbaceous plants and roots,

(a) Stone or quarry products,

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The following plants, plant products and materials shall not

move from the townships of Delran, Chester, Cinnaminson, Palmyra,
Mount Laurel, and Riverside, and the borough of Riverton, County of
Burlington, and #he townships of Pensauken and Delaware, and the
borough of Merchantville, Couty of Camden, N. J., into the District
of Columbia, except in compliance with the conditions prescribed in
Quarantine No. 40 (Japanese Heetle) and the rules and regulations
supplemental thereto, effective April 1, 1920.

(a) Far, garden, and orchard products of all kinds.

(b) Grain and forage crops of all kinds.

(c) Nursery, ornamental and greenhouse stock and all
other plants, including bulbs and cut flowers.

(d) Soil, compost, and manure other than fresh manure.

Corn and broom corn (including all parts of the stalk), celery,
green beans in the pod, beets with tops, spinach, rhubarb, oat and rye
strww as such or when used as packing, cut flowers or entire plants of
chrysanthemum, aster, cosmos, Zinnia, hollyhock, and cut flowers or
entire plants of gladiolus and dahlia, except the bulbs thereof, without
stems, shall nifot be brought into the District of Columbia except in com-
pliance with the conditions prescribed in quarantine No. 43 (European
Corn Borer), and the rules and regulations supplemental thereto, effect-
ive March 29, 1920.

EXPORTATION OF PLANTSAABDPBLANT PRODUCTS.
Regulation 7. Acceptance for Shipment.

No common carrier or other person shall receive for shipment
out of, or remove from, the District of Columbia, any bundle, package,
or container, conveying plants or plant products, other than those
listed in Regulation 2, unless said bui&dle, package, or other container
bears an inspection certificate, signed by an inspector of the Federal
Horticultural Board.

Regulation 8. Place of Inspection.

Plants and plant products, mentioned in Regulation 7, which are
to be shipped out of the District of Columbia, must be presented at the
Inspection House of the Federal Horticultural Board (12th & B Streets,
N. W.), for inspection at the time of shipment, ugless otherwise author-~
ized by an inspector of the Federal Horticultural Board, In eases of
large shipments, arrangements may be made for inspection at other places
by calling Main 4650, Branch 133, or addressing the Federal Horticultural

Board,