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all foul brood or other contagious diseases, and shall be required to keep all 

 bees, bee hires, bee houses, apiaries, combs, honey, and apparatus free from all 

 foul brood or other contagious diseases. 



Sec. 2. That any person or persons who have in their possession or under 

 their control any bees, bee hives, bee houses, combs, or apparatus pertaining to 

 bees or apiaries and who shall allow the same to become infected or diseased 

 with any foul brood or contagious diseases, and who shall wilfully and know- 

 ingly permit them to remain in such condition, shall be deemed guilty of mis- 

 demeanor and upon trial and conviction before any justice of the peace may 

 be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars or more than fifty dollars, or by 

 imprisonment in the county jail not more than 30 days, or by both such fine and 

 imprisonment. 



Sec. 3. That any person competent to testify as a witness may, upon informa- 

 tion and belief, make complaint before any justice of the peace in any county 

 in this Territory in which such foul brood or contagious diseases among bees 

 is found to exist, and upon such written complaint being made in writing and 

 duly sworn to as required by law the justice before whom such complaint is 

 made shall issue a warrant for the arrest of the offender and shall fully inquire, 

 examine into, and try said cause as now provided for the trial of misdemeanors 

 before a justice of the peace. 



Sec. 4. That upon the trial of said cause, that any bees, bee hives, combs, 

 honey, or apparatus connected with said apiary or bee keeper that be found by 

 said justice of the peace before whom such trial is had to be diseased or infected 

 with foul brood or any other contagious diseases shall by such justice of the 

 peace be declared to be a nuisance and shall be condemned as such and an order 

 or writ issued for the destruction of such nuisance, and upon the issuing of such 

 order and such writ directed to any constable or sheriff of such county such 

 constable or such sheriff to whom such order or writ is directed and delivered 

 shall forthwith execute the same by burning, destroying, and putting out of ex- 

 istence all such bees, bee hives, bee houses, comb, honey, or apparatus so de- 

 clared to be and condemned as a nuisance. 



Sec 5. Justices of the peace in their respective counties shall have jurisdic- 

 tion in all causes arising under the provisions of this act, and their costs in 

 cases under this act shall be taxed up and assessed as cases in other cases of 

 misdemeanor before justice of the peace. 



Sec 6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and 

 this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 



Approved March 9, 1905. 



NEW YORK. 

 Agricultubal Law or the State of New York, as Amende.d to July, 1905, 



ARTICLE VI. 



§ 80. The prevention of diseases among bees. No person shall keep in his 

 apiary any colony of bees affected with a contagious malady known as foul 

 brood or black brood ; and every bee keeper, when he becomes aware of the 

 existence of either of such diseases among his bees, shall immediately notify 

 the commissioner of agriculture of the existence of such disease. {As amended 

 by chapier 21Jf of the Laics of 1902.) 



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