Preamble
Whereas the Bureau of Science has succeeded in importing silkworms into the Philippine Islands without the introduction of any of the diseases which have caused serious injury to the silk industry in other countries; and Whereas said Bureau of Science is prepared to furnish, without charge, eggs or in hatched cocoons of silkworms in reasonable numbers to the people of these Islands; and Whereas the importation of silkworms, their eggs or cocoons, by a private persons would ultimately result in the introduction of disease : Now, therefore. By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that: