Nov. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 4167

meat-inspection, filed with me, and that said meat and meat food products have been handled only in a sanitary manner in this country.

Kind of Product. Number of Pieces or Packages. Weight.
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Identification-marks on meats and packages..........................................................
Consignor.................................. Address.................................................
Consignee.................................. Destination.............................................
Shipping marks.............................
(Signature)..........................................................................
(Name of official of national foreign Government authorized to issue inspection certificates for meat and meat food products exported to the United States.)
(Official title)..........................................................................

NOTE.—A certificate in the above form is required to accompany each consignment transported to the United States from the country of the slaughter of the animals from which the meat and meat food products are derived, without unloading in any other country except to transfer the same from one carrier to another in the course of continuous transportation, and to be delivered by the consignee, or his agent, to the Inspector of the Department of Agriculture at the point of inspection in the United States.

The following information is required to be supplied on the certificate by each carrier loading the consignment:—

Loaded............................................at........................................on
(Date.) (Place.)
....................................................................................................
(Name of vessel or car numbers and initials.)
....................................................................................................; and, if unloaded at any place prior to arrival in the United States, unloaded............................................
(Date.)
at............................................, by the............................................
(Place.) (Name of carrier.)
....................................................................................................; and reloaded
(Signature of officer or agent of carrier making indorsement.)
....................................................................................................at............................................on
(Date.) (Place.)
....................................................................................................by the............................................
(Name of vessel or car numbers and initials.) (Name of carrier.)
....................................................................................................
(Signature of officer or agent of carrier making indorsement.)

Paragraph 2. Except as provided in section 11 of this regulation, each consignment containing any meat or product consigned to a country other than the United States at the time it leaves the foreign country of the slaughter of the animals from which it was derived, which is reconsigned and transported to the United States from such foreign country without unloading in any other foreign country for any purpose except transfer from one carrier to another in the course of continuous transportation to the United States, shall be accompanied by a certificate in the form prescribed by paragraph 1 of this section, to which there shall be attached a declaration, made before a United States consular officer by the consignor or his agent in the country from which consigned to the United States, as follows:—

I (We), the undersigned, do solemnly and truly declare that the meat and meat food products described in the annexed certificate, and designated below, arrived in this country............................................at............................................
(Date.) (Place.)
on............................................
(Name of vessel or car numbers and initials.)

and that the same have not been unloaded in this country for any purpose except transfer from the carrier on which the same arrived in this country to another in the course of transportation and reloading for transportation to the United States............................................at............................................
(Date.) (Place.)
on............................................
(Name of vessel or car numbers and initials.)

Kind of Product. Number of Pieces or Packages. Weight.
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Identification marks on meats and packages..........................................................
Consignor in country of slaughter.................................................................
Consignee in country of reloading.................................................................
Consignee in United States........................................................................
Destination....................................................................................
Shipping marks..................................................................................
Dated at............................................day of....................................191 .
(Signed)..........................................................................................
(Authentication and seal of United States Consul.) (Name of shipper or his agent.)
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(Address.)

Paragraph 3. Except as provided in section 11 of this regulation, each consignment containing any meat or product the transportation of which to the United States from the foreign country of the slaughter of the animals

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