150 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Sept., 



sion of this section shall be construed to apply to the transportation of 

 evergreen trees with the branches and foliage attached, or to trees^ 

 shrubs or plants grown in any nursery or to cultivated plants. 



CHAPTER 174. 



An Act Concerning Registration of the Owners of Honey 



Bees. 



Section 1. Every person owning one or more hives of bees shall, 

 annually, on or before the first day of October, make application to the- 

 town clerk of the town in which such bees are kept, for the registration 

 of such bees, and such town clerk shall issue 'to such applicant a cer- 

 tificate of registration upon the payment of a recording fee of twenty- 

 five cents, which certificate shall be in the form prescribed and upon 

 blanks furnished by the com.missioner of domestic animals and shall be- 

 recorded in the office of such town clerk. 



Sec. 2. A record of such registration with the name and place of 

 residence of the registrant and the definite location in the town where- 

 bees are kept by him shall be recorded in a separate book in the ofnce- 

 of the town clerk, which records shall be accessible to the public. 



Sec. 3. Any owner of bees who shall fail to register as required' 

 by the provisions of this act shall be fined not more than five dollars^ 



CHAPTER 19. 



An Act Amending an Act Concerning Entering with Intent 



to Injure Fruit of Another. 



Section 62S0 of the general statutes is amended to read as follows: 

 Every person who shall enter any orchard, fruit garden, melon patch, 

 vineyard, field or inclosure, wherein is cultivated fruit or vegetables, or 

 which is kept for cultivating fruit or vegetables, without the consent of 

 the owner or occupant, with intent to take, destroy or injure anything 

 therein, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned: 

 not more than one year or both. Any owner or occupant, or person 

 employed in the cultivation of any such field or inclosure, may arrest 

 and forthwith bring before any proper magistrate of the town in which" 

 such premises are situated, for prosecution, any person found violating: 

 any provision of this section. 



CHAPTER 3 



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An Act Concerning Trespassing on Cultivated or Planted 



Fields, Gardens or Lands. 



Section 6264 of the general statutes is amended to read as follows: 

 Any person who shall enter upon any field, garden or land of another,, 

 sown, planted or cultivated with grain., vegetables, fruit, article of food, 

 or substance used in the preparation of food, with intent to retard or 

 injure the growth of the same, or shall cut, carry away or injure any 

 growth or product of the soil of such field, garden or land, shall be 

 fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than 

 six months or both. 



