192 LAWS AGAINST FOUL BEOOD. 



Sec. 4. Every person owning or keeping honeybees in this State shall cause 

 all bees owned or kept by him or her to be inspected at his or her own expense 

 as hereinafter provided. Every person neglecting or refusing to cause all 

 such bees to be duly inspected as hereinafter provided shall be deemed guilty of 

 a misdemeanor, and shall pay a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than 

 one hundred dollars for each offense upon conviction thereof: Provided. That if 

 upon inspection of any colony or colonies of bees the disease of foul brood or 

 other infection or contagion shall be found to exist, and such inspector shall be 

 of the opinion that by proper treatment such disease or contagion or infection 

 may be removed, he shall so certify officially in his certificate of inspection, and 

 the owner or owners of such bees shall be entitled to keep such bees for the 

 period of six months for treatment, and at the expiration of said time, if such 

 disease, infection, or contagion shall not be eradicated, such bees shall be de- 

 stroyed, as hereinbefore provided, and any person or persons having in ix)s- 

 session any brood, comb, beehives, honey, or apparatus used in connection with 

 bee culture, found in like manner to be infected with foul brood or infectious or 

 contagious disease, such person shall be allowed the period of thirty days to 

 disinfect the same, but no longer, and if at the end of said period of thirty days 

 said disinfection shall not have been complete, such brood, comb, beehive, honey, 

 or apparatus shall be destroyed as hereinbefore provided. 



Sec. 5. Every person engaged in beekeeping in this State, either as owner, 

 agent, or lessee, in infected disti'icts. shall cause to be inspected at least once in 

 each year each and every brood or colony of bees, brood comb, and honey in his 

 or her possession or under his or her control, and procure a certificate of such 

 inspection showing the true condition of each and every one of the alx)ve-named 

 articles in his or her possession as to the existence of foul brood or other infec- 

 tious or contagious disease, in duplicate, one of which duplicates shall be left 

 with such person and the other shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of 

 the county where such bees or honey or brood comb is kept. 



Sec. 6, Upon the application of the Nebraska State Beekeepers' Association, 

 or other person or persons interested in bee culture residing in any county in 

 this State, the governor may appoint a suitable person, resident of said county, 

 inspector of bees and honey for said county, who shall be sworn to perform the 

 duties of such office faithfully and impartially, whose duty it shall be to in- 

 spect all bees, brood combs, honey within his said county when called upon for 

 said purpose, and shall be entitled to receive the sum of two dollars for each 

 day or part of a day necessarily employed in making such inspection, to be paid 

 by the owner or agent or lessee in whose possession such bees, brood comb, or 

 honey may be when inspected. Such inspectors shall make certificates in dupli- 

 cate, and shall give one to the owners or persons in charge of such bees, or 

 brood combs, or honey, and file the other in the office of the county clerk as 

 aforesaid. 



Took effect June 6th, 1885. 



XEW MEXICO. 



Chapter 43. 



Ax Act relating to foul brood and other contagious diseases among bees. 



Be it enacted hy the legislative assemtly of the Territory of Xeic Mexico: 

 Sectio:^ 1. That hereafter all bee keepers, owners, and possessors of bees, 

 apiaries, bee hives, and apparatus pertaining to bees, bee keepers, apiaries, and 

 bee hives shall keep the same properly protected and disinfected and free from 



