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Ists to sell, barter, or give away or move 

 without the consent of the inspector 

 herein provided for, any diseased bees 

 (be they queens or workers), colonies, 

 honey or appliances or expose other bees 

 to the danger of such disease or fail or 

 neglect to notify the inspector of the ex- 

 istence of such disease. 



Sec. 5. For the enforcement of the 

 provision of this act the said State En- 

 tomological Commission or its duly auth- 

 orized assistants shall have access, in- 

 gress and egress, to all apiaries or places 

 where bees are kept, and it shall be un- 

 lawful for any person or persons to resist, 

 impede or hinder in any way said com- 

 mission or its assistants in the discharge 

 of their duties under the provision of 

 this act. 



Sec. 6. After inspecting infected hives 

 or fixtures or handling diseased bees, 

 said commission or its assistants shkll 

 before leaving the premises or proceeding 

 to any other apiaries, thoroughly disinfect 

 any portion of their own person and 

 clothing and any tools or appliances usee! 

 by them which have come in contact 

 , with infected material and any assistant 

 t or assistants v,'ith him shall likewise 

 ' thoroughly disinfect their persons, cloth- 

 ing or any tools which they have used. 



Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of any per- 

 son in the state of Kansas engaged in 

 the rearing cf queen-bees for sale, to use 

 honey that been boiled not less than thir- 

 ty minutes in making candy to be used 

 in shipping queens. Any such persons 

 engaged in the rearing of queen-bees, for 

 sale, shall have his queen-bee rearing 

 apiary or apiaries inspected twice during 

 each summer season, and upon the dis- 

 covery of the existence of any disease 

 which is infections 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 apiaries until the said 

 commission or its assistants shall declare 

 such apiary free from all disease and in- 

 fection. 



Sec. 8. The Entomological Commission 

 shall make annual reports to the governor 

 giving the number of apiaries inspected, 

 the number of diseased and in- 

 fected apiaries found, the number of 

 colonies treated and also the number of 

 colonies destroyed and the expenses in- 

 curred in the performance of this duty. 

 It shall also keep a careful record of 

 the localities where disease exists and 

 said record shall be open to the public 

 inspection. 



Sec. 9. Any person or persons violating 

 or failing to comply with the provision 

 of this act shall upon conviction be fined 

 in a sum not less than five dollars nor 

 more than one hundred dollars or im- 

 prisonment not exceeding thirty days or 

 . both imprisonment and fine. 



Sec. 10. The sum of five hundred dol- 

 lars for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 

 1911, and the sum of flvo hundred dollars 

 for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 1912, 

 or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 

 , hereby appropriated out of any funds In 

 the general fund not otherwise appropri- 

 ated, to carry out the provisions of this 

 act, on vouchers certified to by the State 

 Entomological Commission, for the sup- 



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pression and stamping out of contagious 

 and infectious diseases among bees with- 

 in this state according to the provisions 

 of this act. The compensation of the as- 

 sistants provided for herein shall be de- 

 termined by the State Entomological 

 Commission, but shall not exceed five 

 dollars per day and their actual expenses 

 incurred in the performance of their 

 duties. 



Sec. 11. Chapter 11. of the Session 

 T^aws of 1909, and all acts and parts of 

 acts in conflict herewith are hereby re- 

 pealed. 



Sec. 12. This act shall take effect and 

 be in force from and after its publication 

 in the official state paper. 



Mr. Speaker — Your Committee on 

 "Ways and Means, to whom was re- 

 ferred IHlouse Bill No. 366, have had the 

 same under consideration, and instruct 

 me to report the bill back to the House 

 with the recomemndation that it be 

 passed. 



J. H. MERCER, Chairman. 



IDr. Bohrer — ^I don't claim that that 

 is what I would give to the people as 

 a statute governing this matter, but it 

 was a rough sketch of what would be 

 good, and I thought it would offer sohie 

 suggestions to any Legislative Com- 

 mittee. "We intend to use it for that 

 purpose in our State, as a suggestion, 

 not to be final; there may be Bome 

 points that all would not be satisfied 

 with in either your State or ours. It 

 should be one of the grandest objects 

 of this convention, and we, as a people, 

 ought to feel it to be our main object 

 to have the Legislature as well in- 

 formed on this subject in all States as 

 it is possible. 



■ This ds a modified copy of a law that 

 was sent out. The Bill was sent out 

 by Dr. Phillips, of 'Washington, D. C, 

 to our Secretary at Topeka, and he 

 sent it to me and wanted to know 

 what my opinion was of it, and I gave 

 him an outline of my opinion of it in 

 a letter; I copied it in part. 



It is for you to think about. If j'ou 

 want to keep a copy of it to hand to 

 your Legislative Committee I would be 

 glad to have you copy it, and allow me 

 to have ^le original, which I brought 

 with me, that I may take it back with 

 me. 



President Bowen — I would suggest 

 that this be referred to the Committee 

 on Resolutions, and let them report to 

 us their opinion in regard to the mat-, 

 ter and what to do with it. 



Pres, Bowen — If there is no objection 

 it will be so ordered. 



