r}l*^' I Issued January 22, 1907. 
 
 United States Department of Agriculture, 
 
 BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 
 
 Amendment No. 8 to B. A. I. Order No. 137 (Regulations Governing the 
 3Ieat Inspection of tlie United States Department of Agriculture). 
 
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 A3IENDMENT TO REGULATIONS 50, 53, 55, 56, 61, AND 64, GOVERNING 
 
 THE INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN TRANSPORTATION OF 
 
 MEATS AND MEAT-FOOD PRODUCTS. 
 
 U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
 
 Office of the Secretary, 
 Washington, D. (7., January 21, 1907. 
 For the purpose of preventing the use in interstate or foreign com- 
 merce of meats and meat-food products which are unsound, unwhole- 
 some, unhealthful, or otherwise unfit for human food, under authority 
 conferred upon the Secretary of Agriculture by the provisions of the act 
 of Congress approved June 30, 1906 (34 Stat.,- 674), the following 
 amendments to Regulations 50, 53, 55, 56, 61, and 64 are hereby pre- 
 scribed for the transportation in interstate and foreign commerce of the 
 carcasses, parts of carcasses, meats, and meat-food products of cattle, 
 sheep, swine, and goats. 
 
 This amendment, which for the purpose of identification is designated 
 as Amendment No. 8 to B. A. I. Order No. 137, shall become and be 
 effective on and after February 1, 1907. 
 
 James Wilson, 
 Secretary of Agriculture. 
 
 Regulation 50. Paragraph (j) of Regulation 50, as amended by 
 Amendments Nos. 4 and 7 to B. A. I. Order No. 137, is hereby further 
 amended by changing the wording of the proviso (commencing with 
 the seventh line of said paragraph as it appears in Amendment No. 4) 
 to read as follows: ''Provided, That during the months of October, 
 November, and December, 1906, and January, February, and until 
 March 15, 1907, shippers who are in possession" etc. The effect of 
 this amendment is to allow until March 15, 1907, to dispose of the 
 remaining sweet pickled, dry salted, smoked, and other similar meats, 
 lard, lard compounds, etc., which were prepared or were in process of 
 preparation prior to October 1, 1906. 
 
 Regulations 53, 55, 56, 61, and 64. The requirement of each of 
 the above regulations that car numbers and initials shall be shown on 
 the various shipping certificates is hereby modified to include only car- 
 load shipments. On certificates for less than carload shipments the 
 car numbers and initials need not be shown. 
 
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