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ciation shall at each annual meeting, or the directors of said association 

 shall, if during the interval between two annual meetings the occasion should 

 arise, appoint a State inspector of apiaries and such number of assistant in- 

 spectors as the exigencies of the service may from time to time require. 



'i 2. The assistant inspectors may when so directed, as hereinafter pro- 

 vided, perform all the duties and exercise all the powers conferred by this 

 act and delegated hereby to said State inspector. 



§ 3. The State inspector or assistant on entering upon any premises m 

 the discharge of his duties shall, if so required, produce the certificate of the 

 President of the said association that he has been appointed as such inspector 

 or sub-inspector, as the case may be. 



I 4. The said State inspector and assistant inspector shall hold office 

 for one year from the date of the annual meeting at which they were ap- 

 pointed; or if they shall have been appoi«tgd_by the directors, then until the 

 next annual meeting after such appointment, and shall be eligible for re- 

 election, but the said~ State inspector or assistant inspector may at aiay time, 

 subject to the approval of the Governor, be removed from office by the di- 

 rectors for neglect of duty or other sufficient cause, and in case of such re- 

 moval the directors shall without delay appoint a successor. 



?. 5. The said inspector shall, whenever so directed by the President of 

 the Illinoi'^ State Bee-Keepers' Association, visit without unnecessary delay 

 any locality in the State of Illinois, and there examine any apiary or apiaries 

 to which the said President may direct him, and ascertain whether or not 

 the disease known as "foul brood" exists in such apiary or apiaries, and 

 whenever the said inspector shall be satisfied of the existence of foul brood . 

 in its virulent or malignant type, it shall be the duty of the inspector to order 

 all colonies so affected, together with the hives occupied by tljem, and the 

 contents of such hives, and all tainted appurtenances that cannot be disin- 

 fected, to be immediately destroyed by fire under the personal direction and 

 superintendence of the said inspector; and after inspecting infected hives or 

 fixtures, or handling diseased bees, the inspector shall, before leaving the 

 premises or proceeding to any other apiary, thoroughly disinfect his own 

 person and clothing, and shall see that any assistant or assistants with him 

 have also thoroughly disinfected their persons and clothing: Provided, that 

 where the inspector, who shall be the sole judge thereof, shall be satisfied 

 that the disease exists, but only in milder types and in its incipient stages, 

 and is being or may be treated successfully, and the inspector has reason to 

 believe that it may be entirely cured, then the inspector may, in his discre- 

 tion, omit to destroy or order the destruction of the colonies and hives in 

 which the disease exists . 



'i 6. The inspector shall have full power, in his discretion, to order any 

 person or possessor of bees dwelling in box hives in apiaries where the dis- 

 ease exists (being mere boxes without frames) to transfer such bees to 

 movable frame hives within a specified time, and in default of such transfer 



