The Commission issued the appended official regulations for the better
protection of buyers of chestnut nursery stock, and to aid in the
effort to prevent the spread of the chestnut tree bark disease. So far
as could be learned, the railway and other transportation companies
generally complied with these instructions, recognizing their meaning
and importance, knowing that diseased nursery stock was a serious
menace.
REGULATIONS RESPECTING CHESTNUT NURSERY STOCK; ADOPTED BY THE CHESTNUT
TREE BLIGHT COMMISSION, MARCH 4, 1913.
_Whereas_, It is found necessary to make certain regulations in order
to provide efficient and practical means for the prevention, control,
and eradication of the chestnut tree blight; therefore, in pursuance
of the powers conferred by Act of Assembly, it is resolved by this
Commission that the following regulations be adopted, and as occasion
may arise, such other and further regulations, and the altering or
amending of the same, as it may seem necessary.
Regulation No. 1. Railroad companies, express companies, and other
common carriers must not accept for shipment, until further notice, any
chestnut nursery stock which does not bear the official inspection tags
of this Commission. Chestnut nursery stock shipped from without the
State and intended for delivery within the State not being accompanied
by an official inspection tag issued by the proper authorities of
the State or Country wherein such shipment originated, certifying
apparent freedom from chestnut blight, must be held at a convenient
place within the State, and this Commission immediately notified. Every
such shipment must be retained in its original package, unopened, and
must not be delivered to the consignee until after an examination
shall have been made by an inspector representing this Commission, and
then not until the inspector shall have attached thereto the official
inspector’s tag of this Commission.
The official inspection tag of the Commission bears the official seal
of the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission, and reads as
follows: