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 United States Department of Agriculture 
 
 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
 
 ORDER RESTRICTING THE IMPORTATION OF 
 ANIMAL CASINGS 
 
 Effective on and after December 1, 1927 
 
 In order to guard against the introduction into the United States of animal 
 casings bearing the contagion of contagious, infectious, or communicable 
 diseases of animals, it is hereby ordered, under authority of the act of Con- 
 gross approved February 2, 1903 (32 Stat, 791), that no animal casings shall 
 be admitted into the United States from any foreign country unless and until 
 they are accompanied by a certificate bearing the signature of the national 
 Government official having jurisdiction over the health of animals in the 
 country in which the casings originated. The certificate shall be in the follow- 
 ing form : 
 
 FOREIGN OFFICIAL CERTIFICATE FOR ANIMAL CASINGS 
 
 Place Date 
 
 (city) (country) 
 
 I hereby certify that the animal casings herein described were derived from 
 healthy animals (cattle, sheep, swine, or goats), which received ante-mortem 
 and post-mortem veterinary inspections at the time of slaughter, are clean and 
 sound, and were prepared and handled only in a sanitary manner and were not 
 subjected to contagion prior to exportation. 
 
 Kind of casings Number of packages Weight 
 
 Identification marks on the packages 
 
 Consignor Address 
 
 Consignee Destination. 
 
 Shipping marks 
 
 (Signature) (Signature) 
 
 (Official issuing the certificate) (Official of the national gov- 
 
 ernment having jurisdic- 
 tion over the health of 
 animals in the country in 
 which the casings origi- 
 nated) 
 
 (Official title) (Official title) 
 
 Animal casings which are unaccompanied by the required certificate, those 
 shipped in sheepskins or other skins as containers, and those found upon in- 
 spection to be unclean or unsound when offered for importation into the United 
 
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 States, shall be kept in customs custody until exported or destroyed, or until 
 disinfected and denatured as prescribed by the Chief of the Bureau of Animal 
 Industry. 
 
 This older, which for the purpose of identification is designated as B. A. I. 
 Order 305, shall become effective on December 1, 1927. 
 
 Done at Washington this 7th day of March, 1927. 
 
 Witness my hand and the seal of the Department of Agriculture. 
 
 W. M. Jardine, 
 Secretary of Agriculture. 
 
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