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such milk or cream, if raw, is not produced from cows which have passed a tuberculin test applied by a duly authorized official veterinarian of the United States, or of the country in which such milk or cream is produced, within one year previous to the time of the importation, showing that such cows are free from tuberculosis; (3) when the sanitary conditions of the dairy farm or plant in which such milk or cream is produced or handled do not score at least fifty points out of one hundred points according to the methods for scoring as provided by the score cards, used by the Bureau of Dairy Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture at the time such dairy farms or plants are scored; (4) in the case of raw milk if the number of bacteria per cubic centimeter exceeds three hundred thousand and in the case of raw cream seven hundred and fifty thousand, in the case of pasteurized milk if the number of bacteria per cubic centimeter exceeds one hundred thousand, and in the case of pasteurized cream five hundred thousand; (5) when the temperature of milk or cream at the time of importation exceeds fifty degrees Fahrenheit. (Feb. 15, 1927, ch. 155, § 2, 44 Stat. 1101.)

VIRUSES, SERUMS, TOXINS, ANTI-TOXINS, AND
ANALOGOUS PRODUCTS

§ 151. Preparation and sale of worthless or harmful products for domestic animals prohibited; preparation to be in compliance with rules at licensed establishments. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to prepare, sell, barter, or exchange in the District of Columbia, or in the Territories, or in any place under the jurisdiction of the United States, or to ship or deliver for shipment from one State or Territory or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory or the District of Columbia, any worthless, contaminated, dangerous, or harmful virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product intended for use in the treatment of domestic animals, and no person, firm, or corporation shall prepare, sell, barter, exchange, or ship as aforesaid any virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product manufactured within the United States and intended for use in the treatment of domestic animals, unless and until the said virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product shall have been prepared, under and in compliance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, at an establishment holding an unsuspended and unrevoked license issued by the Secretary of Agriculture as hereinafter authorized. Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, 37 Stat. 832.)

§ 152. Importation regulated and prohibited. The importation into the United States, without a permit from the Secretary of Agriculture, of any virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product for use in the treatment of domestic animals, and the importation of any worthless, contaminated, dangerous, or harmful virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product for use in the treatment of domestic animals, are prohibited. (Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, 37 Stat. 832.)

§ 153. Inspection of imports; denial of entry and destruction. -The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to cause the Bureau

of Animal Industry to examine and inspect all viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, for use in the treatment of domestic animals, which are being imported or offered for importation into the United States, to determine whether such viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products are worthless, contaminated, dangerous, or harmful, and if it shall appear that any such virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product, for use in the treatment of domestic animals, is worthless, contaminated, dangerous, or harmful, the same shall be denied entry and shall be destroyed or returned at the expense of the owner or importer. (Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, 37 Stat. 832.)

§ 154. Regulations for preparation and sale; licenses.-The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make and promulgate from time to time such rules and regulations as may be necessary to prevent the preparation, sale, barter, exchange, or shipment as aforesaid of any worthless, contaminated, dangerous, or harmful virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product for use in the treatment of domestic animals, and to issue, suspend, and revoke licenses for the maintenance of establishments for the preparation of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, for use in the treatment of domestic animals, intended for sale, barter, exchange, or shipment as aforesaid. (Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, 37 Stat. 832.)

§ 155. Permits for importation.-The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to issue permits for the importation into the United States of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, for use in the treatment of domestic animals, which are not worthless, contaminated, dangerous, or harmful. (Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, 37 Stat. 833.)

§ 156. Licenses conditioned on permitting inspection; suspension of licenses. All licenses issued under authority of this chapter to establishments where such viruses, serums, toxins, or analogous products are prepared for sale, barter, exchange, or shipment as aforesaid, shall be issued on condition that the licensee shall permit the inspection of such establishments and of such products and their preparation; and the Secretary of Agriculture may suspend or revoke any permit or license issued under authority of said chapter, after opportunity for hearing has been granted the licensee or importer, when the Secretary of Agriculture is satisfied that such license or permit is being used to facilitate or effect the preparation, sale, barter, exchange, or shipment as aforesaid, or the importation into the United States of any worthless, contaminated, dangerous, or harmful virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product for use in the treatment of domestic animals. (Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, 37 Stat. 833.)

§ 157. Same; inspection daytime or nightime.-Any officer, agent, or employee of the Department of Agriculture duly authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture for the purpose may, at any hour during the daytime or nighttime, enter and inspect any establishment licensed under the provisions of this chapter where any virus, serum, toxin, or analogous product for use in the treatment of domestic animals is prepared for sale, barter, exchange, or shipment as aforesaid. (Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, 37 Stat. 833.)

§ 158. Offenses; punishment.-Any person, firm, or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. (Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, 37 Stat. 833.)

FEDERAL FOOD DRUG AND COSMETIC ACT

§ 372. Examinations and investigations.

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(c) Records of other departments and agencies. For purposes of enforcement of this chapter, records of any department or independent establishment in the executive branch of the Government shall be open to inspection by any official of the Federal Security Agency duly authorized by the Administrator to make such inspection. (June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 702, 52 Stat. 1056; Reorg. Plan No. IV, § 12, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 Fed. Reg. 2422, 54 Stat. 1237.)

TITLE 22-FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE

DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE GENERALLY

§ 80. Commercial and agricultural reports.-Consuls of the United States in foreign countries shall procure and transmit to the Department of State authentic commercial information respecting such countries of such character and in such manner and form and at such times as the department may from time to time prescribe. And they shall also procure and transmit to the Department of State, for the use of the Agricultural Department, monthly reports relative to the character, condition, and respective yields of the agricultural and horticultural industries and other fruiteries of the country in which they are respectively stationed; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby required and directed to embody the information thus obtained, or so much thereof as he may deem material and important, in his monthly bulletin of crop reports. (R. S. § 1712; June 18, 1888, ch. 393, 25 Stat. 186; Feb. 9, 1889, ch. 122, §§ 1, 4, 25 Stat. 659; July 14, 1890, ch. 707, 26 Stat. 288; Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, § 3, 34 Stat. 100.)

DERIVATION

Act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 170, § 1, 11 Stat. 139.

§ 82. Reports as to current prices of merchandise, etc., and as to agricultural conditions.-Every consular officer shall furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury, as often as shall be required, the prices current of all articles of merchandise usually exported to the United States from the port or place in which he is situated; and he shall also furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury, at least once in twelve months, the prices current of all articles of merchandise, including those of the farm, the garden, and the orchard, that are imported through the port or place in which he

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is stationed. And he shall also report as to the character of agricultural implements in use, and whether they are imported to or manufactured in that country; as to the character and extent of agricultural and horticultural pursuits there. That part of the information thus obtained which pertains to agriculture shall be transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, as soon as the same shall have been received by him, to the Secretary of Agriculture, who shall include the same, or so much thereof as he may deem material and important, in his annual reports, stating the said prices in dollars and cents, and rendering tables of foreign weights and measures into their American equivalents. (R. S. § 1713; June 18, 1888, ch. 393, 25 Stat. 186; Feb. 9, 1889, ch. 122, §§ 1, 4, 25 Stat, 659.)

DERIVATION

Act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 127, § 27, 11 Stat. 62.

PASSPORTS

§ 214. Fees for passport; persons excused from payment. There shall be collected and paid into the Treasury of the United States quarterly a fee of $1 for executing each application for a passport and $9 for each passport issued to a citizen or person owing allegiance to or entitled to the protection of the United States: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit the right of the Secretary of State by regulation to authorize the retention by State officials of the fee of $1 for executing an application for a passport: And provided further, That no fee shall be collected for passports issued to officers or employees of the United States proceeding abroad in the discharge of their official duties, or to members of their immediate families, or to seamen, or to widows, children, parents, brothers, and sisters of American soldiers, sailors, or marines, buried abroad whose journey is undertaken for the purpose and with the intent of visiting the graves of such soldiers, sailors, or marines, which facts shall be made a part of the application for the passport. (June 4, 1920, ch. 223, § 1, 41 Stat. 750.)

INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.

§ 262. President's participation in international congresses restricted. The Executive shall not extend or accept any invitation to participate in any international congress, conference, or like event, without first having specific authority of law to do so. (Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 149, § 1, 37 Stat. 913.)

FOREIGN SERVICE BUILDINGS

§ 292. Acquisition of sites and buildings for diplomatic and consular establishments; allotment of space.-The Secretary of State is empowered, subject to the direction of the commission established by section 293 of this title, to acquire by purchase or construction in the manner provided by sections 293 and 294 of this title, within the limits of appropriations made pursuant to section 295 of this title, or by exchange, in whole or in part, under such terms and conditions as in the judgment of the com

mission may best protect the interests of the United States, of any building or grounds of the United States in foreign countries and under the jurisdiction and control of the Secretary of State, sites and buildings in foreign capitals and in other foreign cities, and to alter, repair, and furnish such buildings for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States, or for the purpose of consolidating, to the extent deemed advisable by the commission, within one or more buildings, the embassies, legation, consulates, and other agencies of the United States Government there maintained, which buildings shall be appropriately designated by the commission, and the space in which shall be allotted by the Secretary of State under the direction of the commission among the several agencies of the United States Government. (May 7, 1926, ch. 250, § 1, 44 Stat. 403; May 29, 1928, ch. 876, § 1, 45 Stat. 971.)

FOREIGN WARS, WAR MATERIALS AND NEUTRALITY

§ 411. Lease, loan, etc., of war materials in interest of United States defense; definitions.-As used in sections 411-419 of this title

(a) The term "defense article" means

(1) Any weapon, munition, aircraft, vessel, or boat;

(2) Any machinery, facility, tool, material, or supply necessary for the manufacture, production, processing, repair, servicing, or operation of any article described in this subsection; (3) Any component material or part of or equipment for any article described in this subsection;

(4) Any agricultural, industrial or other commodity or article for defense.

Such term "defense article" includes any article described in this subsection: Manufactured or procured pursuant to section 412, or to which the United States or any foreign government has or hereafter acquires title, possession, or control.

(b) The term "defense information" means any plan, specification, design, prototype, or information pertaining to any defense article. (Mar. 11, 1941, ch. 11, § 2, 55 Stat. 31.)

SHORT TITLES OF SECTIONS 411-419

Sections 411-419 of this title, popularly known as the "Lease-Lend Act," "may be cited as 'An Act to Promote the Defense of the United States'" by section 1 of act Mar. 11, 1941, cited to text.

SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS OF SECTIONS 411-419

Section 11 of act Mar. 11, 1941, cited to text, which act constitutes sections 411-419. of this title, provided as follows: "If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any circumstance shall be held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provision to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby."

CROSS REFERENCES

The Surplus Property Act of 1944, sections 1611-1646 of Appendix to Title 50, as inapplicable to sections 411-419 of this title, see section 1643 (b) of Appendix to Title 50, War.

§ 412. Same; procurement for and transfer of defense articles to other countries; repairs, etc.; limitation on amount; termination of powers; naval convoys; combat area navigation.-(a)

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