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 United States Department of Agriculture, 
 
 (B. A. I. Okt.kk 1CJ.) 
 
 BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 
 
 REVOCATION OF REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE IMPORTATION OF 
 HAY AND STRAW FROM THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA, BRITISH WEST 
 INDIES. 
 
 U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
 
 Office of the Secretary, 
 Washington, D. C, May 25, 1909. 
 
 Under the authority of the act of Congress entitled "An act to enable 
 the Secretary of Agriculture to more effectually suppress and prevent 
 the spread of contagious and infectious diseases of live stock, and for 
 other purposes," approved February 2, 1903, and to prevent the intro- 
 duction of the contagion of anthrax, pleuro-pneumonia, or foot-and- 
 mouth disease, a regulation, designated as B. A. I. Order 159, was 
 issued on March 23, 1909. It provided that all hay or straw, the product 
 of the island of Jamaica, British West Indies, or which had been trans- 
 ported through said island, should be disinfected as might be prescribed 
 by the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, at the expense of the 
 importer, before being unloaded from the vessel bringing it into any 
 port of the United States, and when unloaded and landed it should be 
 stored and held in quarantine for a period of not less than three months 
 in some place acceptable to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry 
 and under conditions prescribed by him. 
 
 The necessity for the measures required in the regulation, designated 
 as B. A. I. Order 159, having passed, the said regulation so designated 
 is hereby canceled, such cancellation to take effect from June 1, 1909. 
 
 James Wilson, 
 Secretary of Agriculture. 
 
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