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any money compensation whatever, for any services rendered 

 for the same out of this fund. 



Sec. 2. The lUinois State Bee-Keepers' Association shall 

 appoint at each annual meeting a State inspector of apiaries 

 for one year or till his successor is elected and qualified who 

 may if necess-iry appoint his own assistants. Said inspector 

 or inspectors shall when notified of the existence of the disease 

 known as foal brood among apiaries, examine all such as are 

 so reported and all others in the same locality and ascertain 

 whether or not such disease exists, and if satisfied of its 

 existence shall give the owner or person who has the care 

 of such apiaries full instructions as to the manner of treating^ 

 them. Within a reasonable time after making such examina- 

 tions the inspector shall make another examination thereof, 

 and if the condition of any of them is such as in his judg- 

 ment renders it necessary he may burn all the colonies of 

 bees and all the comb necessary to prevent the spread of the 

 disease. 



The inspector shall make at the close, of each calendar 

 year a report to the Governor and also to 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 of the expenses incurred in 

 the performance of his duty. Said inspector shall receive four 

 dollars for each day actually and necessarily spent in the 

 performance of his duties and be reimbursed the money ex- 

 pended by him in the defraying his expenses ; provided that 

 the total expenditures for such purposes shall not exceed 

 seven hundred dollars per year. 



SALE OF DISEASED APIARY^ ETC. 



Sec. 3. Any owner of a diseased apiary, of honey made 

 or taken from such an apiary, or appliance taken from such 

 an apiary who shall sell, barter or give away any such apiary, 

 honey or appliance, or bees from such an apiary, expose other 

 bees to the danger of contracting such disease, or refuse to 

 allow the inspector of apiaries to inspect such apiary, honey 

 or appliances, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars, nor 

 more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the county 

 jail not less than one month nor more than two months. 



Sec. 4. That on the order of the president, counter- 

 signed by the secretary of the Illinois State Bee-Keepers' 

 Association, and approved by the Governor, the Auditor of 

 Public Accounts shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer of 

 the State of Illinois in favor of the treasurer of the Illinois 

 State Bee-Keepers' Association for the sum herein appro- 

 priated. 



Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the Illi- 

 nois State Bee-Keepers' Association to pay out of said ap- 

 propriation on itemized and receipted vouchers, such sums as 

 may be authorized by vote of said organization on the order 

 of the president, countersigned by the secretary and make 

 annual report to the Governor of all such expenditures, as 

 provided by law. 



