UNITED  STATES  DEPARTMENT  OE  AGRI CULTU 
 Bureau  of  Entomology  and  Plant  Quarantine 
 Washington,  D.  C. 
 
 S.  E.  ?.  q. — 452,  Siipplement  No,  1.  August  19,  1937. 
 
 PLANT-QUARANTINE  IMPORT  RESTRICTIONS 
 
 OP  THE 
 
 TANGANYIKA.  TERRITORY 
 
 This  supplement  is  rendered  necessary  "by  the  receipt  of  a 
 copy  of  the  Tanganyika  Plant  Protection  Ordinance  No.  9  of  April 
 23,  1937,  which  repeals  and  supersedes  the  Plant  Pest  and  Disease 
 Ordinance  of  November  9,  1921. 
 
 Definitions 
 
 The  following  definitions  are  included  in  Section  2  of  Or- 
 dinance No.  9  of  1937: 
 
 "Animal  organism"  means  any  animal  organism  in  any  stage 
 of  existence. 
 
 "Disease"  means  any  abnormal  condition  of  plants  communicable 
 or  believed  to  he  communicable  "by  the  transfer  of  a  causative  agent 
 or  by  the  propagation  of  the  affected  plant  which  the  Governor  may, 
 by  order,  declare  to  be  a  disease  for  the  purposes  of  the  Ordinance; 
 also  any  unhealthy  condition  of  any  plant. 
 
 "Pest"  means  any  of  the  following  which  the  Governor,  by 
 order,  may  declare  to  be  a  pest  for  the  purposes  of  this  Ordinance. 
 
 (a)  Any  animal  or  vegetable  organism  inimical  to  the  growth 
 or  existence  of  living  plants  or  injurious  to  plant 
 products . 
 
 (b)  Any  other  agent  capable  of  producing  a  communicable  dis- 
 ease of  plants. 
 
 "Plant"  means  any  member  of  the  vegetable  kingdom  and  includes 
 any  part  of  a  plant,  whether  severed  therefrom  or  not. 
 
 "Vegetable  organism"  means  any  vegetable  organism  at  any  stage 
 of  existence. 
 
UNIVERSITY  OF  FLORIDA 
 
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 Section  8  empowers  the  Governor,  by  order,  to  prohibit,  re- 
 strict, or  regulate  the  importation  into  and  the  exportation  from 
 the  Territory  of  any  plants,  and  the  soil,  packages,  coverings  or 
 wrappings  thereof,  and  of  any  article  or  class  of  articles,  whether 
 of  a  nature  similar  4;o  plants  or  not,  and  of  any  animals  or  insects 
 likely  to  infect  any  plant  with  any  pest  or  disease. 
 
 v         LEE  A.  STRONG, 
 Chief,  Bureau  of  Entomology  and  Plant  Quarantine.