To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry into effect the provisions of the plant quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended, and to conduct the other activities hereinafter authorized, independently or in cooperation with the States and other agencies, organizations, and individuals concerned, including necessary expenses for supplies and equipment, rent outside the District of Columbia, and the employment of necessary persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, as follows:

For necessary expenses for general administrative purposes, including the salary of chief of administration and other personal services in the District of Columbia, $73,000.

For enforcement of foreign plant quarantines and to prevent the movement of cotton and cottonseed from Mexico into the United States, including the regulation of the entry into the Untied States of railway cars and other vehicles, and freight, express, baggage, or other materials from Mexico, and the inspection, cleaning, and disinfection thereof, including construction and repair of necessary buildings, plants, and equipment, for the fumigation, disinfection, or cleaning of products, railway cars, or other vehicles entering the United States from Mexico, $550,000: Provided, That any moneys received in payment of charges fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture on account of such cleaning and disinfection shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

For the control and prevention of spread of the pink bollworm, including the establishment of such cotton-free areas as may be necessary to stamp out any infestation, the erection and repair of necessary inspection stations, and for necessary surveys and control operations in Mexico in cooperation with the Mexican Government or local Mexican authorities, the unexpended balance of the funds available for this purpose for the fiscal year 1929 is continued available for the fiscal year 1930, together with $397,120 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $5,000,000 for establishing and enforcing noncotton zones, carried in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928: Provided, That the cost of each such station shall not exceed $500, and that the total amount expended for such stations in one year shall not exceed $2,500.

For the control and prevention of spread of the Parlatoria date scale, $86,700: Provided, That of this amount $70,000, of which $35,000 shall be immediately available, may be expended only when the States of Arizona and California shall have jointly contributed $35,000 for this purpose.

For the control and prevention of spread of the Thurberia weevil, $34,300.

For the control and prevention of spread of the gypsy and browntail moths, $567,500.

For the control and prevention of spread of the European corn borer, $898,000; Provided, That in addition thereto there shall be

immediately available for this purpose $50,000 of the $10,000,000 appropriated by the joint resolution making an appropriation for the eradication or control of the European corn borer, approved February 23, 1927 (U. S. C., Supp. I, p. 22, sec. 146).

For the control and prevention of spread of the Japanese and Asiatic beetles, $267,000.

For the control and prevention of spread of the white-pine blister rust, $27,000.

For the control and prevention of spread of the phony peach disease, $15,000, to be immediately available.

For the control and prevention of spread of the Mexican fruit worm, including necessary surveys and control operations in Mexico in cooperation with the Mexican Government or local Mexican authorities, $85,000, together with $30,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose contained in the First Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928.

Certification of exports: For the inspection, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe, of domestic fresh fruits, vegetables, and seeds and nursery stock and other plants for propagation when offered for export and to certify to shippers and interested parties as to the freedom of such products from injurious plant diseases and insect pests according to the sanitary requirments of the foreign countries affected and to make such reasonable charges and to use such means as may be necessary to accomplish this object, $30,000: Provided, That moneys received on account of such inspection and certification shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

Approved, February 16, 1929.

PLANT QUARANTINE AND CONTROL ADMINISTRATION

Japanese and Asiatic beetles: For an additional amount for the control and prevention of spread of the Japanese and Asiatic beetles, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, and including not to exceed $18,000 for screening the greenhouses in the grounds of the Department of Agriculture and those on the Arlington Farm in Virginia, $110,000.

Preventing spread of gypsy moth: For an additional amount for the control and prevention of spread of the gypsy and brown-tail moths, including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, $50,000.

Approved, March 4, 1929.

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[H. J. Res. 56]

Joint Resolution To provide funds for the eradication, control, and prevention of the spread of the Mediterranean fruit fly.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet the emergency caused by the presence of the Mediterranean fruit fly in the United States, not to exceed $4,250,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $5,000,000 for establishing and enforcing noncotton zones carried in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1928, is hereby made available until June 30, 1930, for necessary expenses for the eradication, control, and prevention of the spread of this pest, the employment of persons and means in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and for other expenses, including objects specified in the Agricultural Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1929 and 1930 under the heading "Salaries and general expenses, Plant Quarantine and Control Administration," and for necessary investigations, for printing, and for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles outside of the District of Columbia: Provided, That in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture no expenditure shall be made hereunder until a sum or sums adequate to State cooperation shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by States, county, or local authorities or individuals or organizations.

Approved, May 2, 1929.

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[S. 2320]

An Act To safeguard the distribution and sale of certain dangerous caustic or corrosive acids, alkalies, and other substances in interstate and foreign commerce.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the Federal Caustic Poison Act.

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 2. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires(a) The term "dangerous caustic or corrosive substance " means: (1) Hydrochloric acid and any preparation containing free or chemically unneutralized hydrochloric acid (HCI) in a concentration of 10 per centum or more;

(2) Sulphuric acid and any preparation containing free or chemically unneutralized sulphuric acid (HSO,) in a concentration of 10 per centum or more;

(3) Nitric acid or any preparation containing free or chemically unneutralized nitric acid (HNO,) in a concentration of 5 per centum

or more;

(4) Carbolic acid (C,H.OH), otherwise known as phenol, and any preparation containing carbolic acid in a concentration of 5 per centum or more;

(5) Oxalic acid and any preparation containing free or chemically unneutralized oxalic acid (HC,O,) in a concentration of 10 per

centum or more;

(6) Any salt of oxalic acid and any preparation containing any such salt in a concentration of 10 per centum or more;

(7) Acetic acid or any preparation containing free or chemically unneutralized acetic acid (HC,H,O,) in a concentration of 20 per

centum or more;

(8) Hypochlorous acid, either free or combined, and any preparation containing the same in a concentration so as to yield 10 per centum or more by weight of available chlorine, excluding calx chlorinata, bleaching powder, and chloride of lime;

(9) Potassium hydroxide and any preparation containing free or chemically unneutralized potassium hydroxide (KOH), including caustic potash and Vienna paste, in a concentration of 10 per centum

or more;

(10) Sodium hydroxide and any preparation containing free or chemically unneutralized sodium hydroxide (NaOH), including caustic soda and lye, in a concentration of 10 per centum or more; (11) Silver nitrate, sometimes known as lunar caustic, and any preparation containing silver nitrate (AgNO,) in a concentration of 5 per centum or more; and

(12) Ammonia water and any preparation containing free or chemically uncombined ammonia (NH), including ammonium hydroxide and "hartshorn," in a concentration of 5 per centum or

more.