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nor more than one hundred dollars, or not less than one month's imprisonment 

 in the county jail nor more than two months' imprisonment. 



Sec. 5. In addition to such individual reports as are required under this act 

 by the inspector of apiaries, he shall make an annual report to the dairy and 

 food commissioner, giving the number of apiaries visited, the number of 

 diseased apiaries found, the number of colonies treated, also the number of 

 colonies destroyed by fire, and an itemized account of his transportation ex- 

 penses, with affidavit annexed thereto. 



Sec. 6. There is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the State treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars per, year 

 for the suppression of foul brood among bees in Michigan. The inspector shall 

 receive three dollars per day and actual transportation expenses for actual time 

 served, which sum shall not exceed the money hereby appropriated, to be paid 

 by the State treasurer upon warrants drawn by the auditor-general and ap- 

 proved by the dairy and food commissioner. 



Sec. 7. Act number one hundred forty-one of the public acts of eighteen hun- 

 dred eighty-one, being sections fifty-six hundred sixty-three, fifty-six hundred 

 sixty-four, fifty-six hundred sixty-five, fifty-six hundred sixty-six, fifty-six 

 hundred sixty-seven, fifty-six hundred sixty-eight, fifty-six hundred sixty-nine, 

 and fifty-six hundred seventy of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred ninety- 

 seven, is hereby repealed. 



This act is ordered to take immediate effect. 



NEBRASKA. 



Chapter 82. — Bees. 



Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or have in possession 

 in this State any honeybees, brood comb, "or honey known to possess or be in- 

 fected with the disease known as " foul brood," or with any other infectious or 

 contagious disease peculiar to bees and honey, contrary to the provisions of this 

 act, or to keep or to have in possession any beehive or other receptacle in which 

 foul brood, diseased bees, or infected honey is known to have been kept. 

 Every person violating any provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of 

 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not less than 

 ten dollars nor more than one hundred for each offense, or be confined in the 

 county jail not more than thirty days.. 



Sec. 2, Any honeybees, brood comb, or honey owned or kept or found in this 

 State known to be affected with foul brood or other infectious or contagious dis- 

 ease, and any beehive or receptacle in which any bees, brood comb, or honey 

 shall have been kept, known to have been infected with any infectious or con- 

 tagious disease, shall be destroyed immediately and completely by burning, by 

 the owner thereof or the person or persons in whose possession the same 

 may be. 



Sec. 3. Every person owning or having in his or her possession, or under his 

 or her control, any honeybees, brood comb, honey, beehive, or receptacle or ap- 

 paratus known to be infected with any infectious or contagious disease peculiar 

 to honeybees or honey, or in which any diseased bees or infected honey shall 

 have been kept, who shall not immediately cause the same to be destroyed as 

 provided in section 2 of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more 

 than one hundred dollars for each offense, or be imprisoned in the county jail 

 not more th^n thirty days for each offense. 



