FOURTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IX. 601 



Sec. 3. Annual Report. The inspector shall make a yearly report 

 to the governor stating the number of apiaries visited, the number of 

 those diseased and treated and the number of colonies of bees destroyed; 

 Such report shall also show the expenses incurred by the inspector while 

 in the discharge of his duties under the provisions of this act. 



Sec. 4. Sale or Removal of Diseased Colony of Bees— Penalty. Any 

 one who knowingly sells, barters or gives away, moves or allows to be 

 moved a diseased colony of bees, be they queen or workers, or infected 

 appliances or who exposes any infected honey to the bees without the 

 consent of the inspector, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and 

 be liable on conviction before any justice of the county, to a fine of not 

 less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars 

 ($100.00) or to imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty 

 days, or both fine and imprisonment. 



Sec. 5. Sales after Destruction or Treatment— Penalty. Any person 

 v/hose bees have been destroyed or treated for foul brood, who sells or 

 offers for sale any bees, hives or appurtenances, after such destruction 

 or treatment, without being authorized by the inspector to do so, or expose 

 in his apiary or elsewhere any infected honey, or other infected thing, 

 or conceal the fact that said disease exists, shall be deemed guilty of 

 a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine of 

 not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than fifty dollars 

 ($50.00) or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. 



Sec. 6. Failure to Comply — Resistance — Penalty. Any owner or pos- 

 sessor of bees who disobeys the directions of the inspector, or offers 

 resistance, or obstructs said inspector in the performance of his duties, 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof 

 before any justice of the peace of the county, shall be fined not exceeding 

 fifty dollars ($50.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail not ex- 

 ceeding thirty days. 



Sec. 7. Compensation and Expenses. Such inspector shall receive as 

 compensation the sum of five dollars ($5.00) per day for each day actually 

 and necessarily employed in the discharge of the duties as herein pro- 

 vided together with his expenses actually incurred while so employed, 

 provided, that the amount to be paid on account of such expenses shall 

 in no event exceed the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) 

 for any one year, including salary and expenses of deputies. 



IMPORTATION OF BEES. 



(Acts of the 35tli general assembly.) 



Chapter 209. An act to prohibit the importation of diseased 



bees. 



Section 1. Diseased Bees. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm 



or corporation to bring into, or cause to be brought into the state of 



Iowa, any apiary or honey bees infected with foul brood or other in- 

 fectious disease, or bee destroying insects. 



