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engaged in the rearing of queen bees 

 shall have his or her queen rearing and 

 queen mating apiary or apiaries inspect- 

 ed at least twice during each summer 

 season by the inspector of apiaries, and 

 on the discovery of the existence of any 

 disease which infectious or contagious 

 in its nature and injurious to bees in 

 their egg, larval, pupal, or adult stages, 

 said person shall at once cease to ship 

 queen bees from such diseased apiary 

 imtil the inspector of apiaries shall de- 

 clare the said apiary free from dis- 

 ease. On complaint of the inspector of 

 apiaries or of any five bee-keeprs in 

 the State, that said" bee-keeper, engaged 

 in the rearing of queens, is violatmg 

 the provisions of this section, he shall 

 upon conviction, be punished by a fine 

 of not less than twenty dollars nor 

 more than fifty dollars. 



Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of any 

 person in the State of Michigan en- 

 gaged in bee-keeping to securely and 

 tightly close the entrance of any hive 

 or hives in apiaries not free from dis- 

 ease in which the bees shall have died 

 either during the winter or at any other 

 time, and to make the hive or hives 

 tight in such manner that robber bees 

 shall not find it possible to gain ingress 

 or egress to and from such hives or to 

 obtain honey from such hives. The 

 sealing of the hives must be maintained 

 so long as the hives remain in the yard 

 or in any place where honey bees can 

 gain access to them, and failure to 

 comply with this provision shall consti- 

 tute a misdemeanor, and on conviction 

 thereof, he or she shall be punished by 

 a fine of not less than five dollars nor 

 more than twenty-five dollars for each 

 offense. 



Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of any 

 one keeping bees in the State of Michi- 

 gan, to deeply bury all combs and 

 frames taken from diseased colonies, in 

 places where they shall remain undis- 

 turbed, unless they be placed in tiglit 

 receptacles so constructed that it shall 

 be impossible for bees to gain access to 

 combs, or for honey or any other liquid 

 to leak out where bees can gain access 

 to it. Anyone knowingly exposing 

 comb, honey, frames, quilts, empty hives 

 covers or bottom-boards, or tools or 

 other appliances contaminated by infect- 

 ed material from the same, from dis- 

 eased colonies, shall on conviction 

 thereof, be punished by a fine of not 

 less than twenty-five dollars nor more 



than fifty dollars: Provided, That the 

 wax may be rendered in such place or 

 at such time that no bees will be able 

 to gain access to the comb before it is 

 thoroughly heated, or at any time to 

 the liquids expressed in the process of 

 rendering. 



Sec. 10. All colonies of bees and all 

 nuclei which is brought into the State 

 of Michigan from other states or from 

 other countries, not accompanied by a 

 certificate of health from the official 

 inspector of the place from whence they 

 came, shall be reported immediately to 

 the State inspector of apiaries, and 

 such colonies or nuclei shall be inspect- 

 ed by him at such time as is expedient. 

 Failure to report such importation of 

 bees shall, on conviction thereof, be 

 punishable by a fine or not less than 

 one dollar for each colony or nucleus. 



Sec. 11. The State inspector of 

 apiaries shall receive such compensation 

 as the State board of agriculture shall 

 determine, and said inspector shall ren- 

 der annual reports to the State board of 

 agriculture, giving the number of 

 apiaries visited, the number of diseased 

 apiaries found, the number of colonies 

 treated, also the number of colonies de- 

 stroyed, and the expense incurred in 

 the performance of his duty. He shall 

 also keep a careful record of the locali- 

 ties where the disease exists, but this 

 record shall not be public, but may be 

 consulted with the consent of the in- 

 spector of apiaries. 



Sec. 12. For the purpose of carrying 

 out the provisions of this act, there is 

 hereby appropriated, the sum of fifteen 

 hundred dollars per annum, or so much 

 thereof as may be necessary, and all 

 m.oneys appropriated under this act., or 

 so much thereof as may be necessary to 

 carry out its provisions, shall be ex- 

 pended by the inspector of apiaries 

 under the direction of the State board 

 of agriculture, and the same shall be 

 drawn from the treasury upon presen- 

 tation of proper certificates of said 

 board to the auditor general, and his 

 warrant to the State treasurer. 



Sec. 13. All acts and parts of acts 

 inconsistent herewith are hereby re- 

 pealed. 



Idaho Honey Producers' Association 

 (Limited). 



The association is a corporation or- 

 ganized under the laws of the State 

 of Idaho, with a capital stock of ten 



