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  Seventh 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  ARTICLE 
  V. 
  

  

  {Made 
  Article 
  6 
  hy 
  chapter 
  500 
  of 
  the 
  Laws 
  of 
  1897.) 
  

  

  Miscellaneous 
  Provisions. 
  

  

  Section 
  80. 
  The 
  prevention 
  of 
  diseases 
  among 
  bees. 
  

  

  81. 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  agent 
  of 
  the 
  commissioners. 
  

  

  82. 
  The 
  prevention 
  of 
  disease 
  in 
  fruit 
  trees.' 
  

  

  83. 
  Appointment 
  and 
  duties 
  of 
  the 
  agent 
  of 
  the 
  commissioner 
  of 
  

  

  agriculture. 
  

  

  84. 
  Proceedings 
  in 
  case 
  of 
  owner's 
  failure 
  to 
  destroy. 
  

  

  85. 
  The 
  New 
  Yorli 
  agricultural 
  experiment 
  station. 
  

  

  86. 
  The 
  state 
  weather 
  bureau. 
  

  

  87. 
  The 
  agricultural 
  experiment 
  station 
  at 
  Cornell 
  university. 
  

  

  88. 
  Receipts 
  and 
  apportionment 
  of 
  state 
  moneys 
  appropriated 
  for 
  

  

  the 
  promotion 
  of 
  agriculture. 
  

  

  89. 
  When 
  agricultural 
  societies 
  entitled 
  to 
  additional 
  sums 
  from 
  the 
  

  

  state. 
  

  

  90. 
  Annual 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  commissioner 
  of 
  agriculture 
  and 
  state 
  

  

  society. 
  

  

  {Amended 
  hy 
  section 
  1 
  of 
  chapter 
  223 
  of 
  the 
  Laws 
  of 
  1899.) 
  

  

  § 
  80. 
  The 
  prevention 
  of 
  diseases 
  among 
  bees. 
  No 
  per- 
  

   son 
  shall 
  keep 
  in 
  his 
  apiary 
  any 
  colony 
  of 
  bees 
  affected 
  with 
  a 
  con- 
  

   tagious 
  malady 
  known 
  as 
  foul 
  brood 
  and 
  every 
  bee-keeper, 
  when 
  

   he 
  becomes 
  aware 
  of 
  the 
  existence 
  of 
  such 
  disease 
  among 
  his 
  bees, 
  

   shall 
  destroy 
  or 
  cause 
  to 
  be 
  destroyed 
  forthwith 
  all 
  colonies 
  thus 
  

   affected. 
  In 
  any 
  county 
  any 
  five 
  or 
  more 
  actual 
  bee-keepers 
  of 
  

   the 
  county 
  in 
  which 
  foul 
  brood 
  exists, 
  may 
  present 
  to 
  the 
  commis- 
  

   sioner 
  of 
  agriculture 
  a 
  petition 
  setting 
  forth 
  that 
  such 
  disease 
  ex- 
  

   ists, 
  or 
  thajt 
  the 
  petitioners 
  have 
  reason 
  to 
  believe 
  that 
  it 
  exists 
  

   in 
  such 
  county, 
  and 
  the 
  reasons 
  of 
  such 
  belief 
  and 
  requesting 
  him 
  

   to 
  appoint 
  a 
  competent 
  person 
  to 
  prevent 
  the 
  spread 
  of 
  such 
  dis- 
  

   ease, 
  and 
  eradicate 
  the 
  same. 
  

  

  Upon 
  the 
  receipt 
  of 
  such 
  petition 
  the 
  commissioner 
  of 
  agricul- 
  

   ture 
  shall 
  within 
  thirty 
  days 
  thereafter 
  appoint 
  some 
  well-known 
  

   and 
  competent 
  bee-keeper 
  of 
  the 
  county 
  as 
  an 
  agent 
  of 
  the 
  commis- 
  

   sioner 
  who 
  shall 
  hold 
  his 
  office 
  during 
  the 
  pleasure 
  of 
  the 
  commis- 
  

   sioner 
  of 
  agriculture, 
  and 
  who 
  shall 
  within 
  ten 
  days 
  after 
  his 
  ap- 
  

   pointment, 
  file 
  in 
  the 
  office 
  of 
  the 
  county 
  clerk 
  of 
  the 
  county 
  an 
  

   acceptance 
  of 
  the 
  appointment 
  and 
  constitutional 
  oath 
  of 
  office. 
  

  

  