Mr. Jackson to Mr. Hay.
Berlin, November 8, 1898.
Sir: Recurring to my dispatch No. 586 of the 3d instant, I have the honor to inform you that the official text of the new Bremen regulations, referred to therein, in regard to the examination of imported American fruits, was published in last night’s Imperial Gazette.
These regulations were decreed by the senate of Bremen on the 21st ultimo, and according to them all live plants and fresh fruit imported from America are to be examined officially by designated experts. These experts are to be paid 4 marks for the first hour and 2 marks per hour, not to exceed in all 12 marks, for each additional hour. Should the examination of a small shipment take less than an hour, the expert is to be paid at the rate of 1 mark per quarter hour, but is never to receive less than 2 marks. The person sending fruit or plants to be examined must declare his readiness to bear the expense of the examination, and additional provisions prescribe the manner in which this declaration is to be given, and the consequences of either failing to do so or doing it in an irregular manner.
These regulations were published by the Bremen senate on the 25th ultimo, and it is presumed that they are already in effect.
I have, etc.,