Excerpt from Cold Storage: Tuesday, March 30, 1920; United States Senate, Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Washington, D. C Sec. 10. That no person shall willfully hinder, obstruct, or resist the Secretary of Agriculture or any duly authorized officer, employee, or agent, in the performance of his duties under this act. Sec. 11. (a) That whenever in the case of any article of food being offered for importation the Secretary of Agriculture has reason to believe that any provision of this act is being violated with respect to such article of food, he shall give due notice and opportunity for hearing thereon to the owner or consignee, and certify such fact to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon (i) refuse admission and delivery to the consignee of such article of food, or (2) deliver such article of food to the con signee ending examination, hearing, and decision in the matter on the execution of a pena bond to the amount of the full invoice value of such article of food, together with the duty thereon, if any, and to the effect that on refusal to return such article of food for any cause to the Secretary of the Treasury when demanded, for the purpose of excluding it from the country or for any other purpose, the consignee shall forfeit the full amount of the bond. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.