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shall be taken to abate the same. Such notice and order may be served personally or 

 by depositing the same in the post office properly stamped, addressed to the owner or 

 occupant of the land or premises upon which such nuisance exists, and the direction for 

 treatment may consist of a printed circular, bulletin or report of the Inspector of Apiaries, 

 (|r an extract from same. 



If the person so notified shall refuse or fail to abate said nuisance in the manner 

 and in the time prescribed in said notice, the Inspector of Apiaries may cause such nuis- 

 ance to be abated; and he shall certify to the owner or person in charge of the premises 

 the cost of the abatement and if not paid to him within sixty days thereafter the same 

 may be recovered, together with the costs of action, before any court in the State having 

 competent jurisdiction. 



In case notice and order served as aforesaid shall direct that anj' bees, hives, bee- 

 fixtures or appurtenances shall be destroyed and the owner of such bees, hives, bee- 

 fixtures or appurtenances shall consider himself aggrieved by said order, he shall have 

 the privilege of appealing within three days of the receipt of the notice to the County 

 Court of the county in which such property is situated. The appeal shall be made in 

 like manner as appeals are taken to the County Court from judgments of justices of 

 the peace. Written notice of said appeal served by mail upon the Inspector of Apiaries 

 shall operate to stay all proceedings until the decision of the county court, which may, 

 after investigating the matter, reverse, modify or affirm the order of the Inspector of 

 Apiaries. Such decision shall then become the order of the Inspector of Apiaries, who 

 shall serve the same as hereinbefore set forth and shall fix a time within which such de- 

 cision must be carried out. 



Sec. 3. The Inspector of Apiaries shall, on or before the second Monday in Decem- 

 ber of each calendar year, make a report to the Governor and also tq, the Illinois State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, stating the number of apiaries visited, the number of those 

 diseased and treated, the number of colonies of bees destroyed and the expense incurred 

 in the performance of his duties. 



Sec. 4. Any owner of a diseased apiary or appliances taken therefrom, who shall 

 sell, barter or give away any such apiary, appliance, queens or bees from such apiary, 

 expose other bees to the danger of contracting such disease, or refuse to allow the In- 

 spector of .Apiaries to inspect such apiary, or appliances, shall be fined not less than $50 

 nor more than $100. 



Approved June 7, 1911 . ! 



