196 LAWS AGAINST FOUL BROOD. 



Sec. 8. Should any person whose bees have been destroyed or treated for 

 foul brood sell, or offer for sale, any bees, hives, or appurtenances of any kind 

 after such destruction or treatment, and before being authorized by the 

 inspector to do so, or should he expose, in his bee yard or elsewhere, any 

 infected comb honey or other infected thing, or conceal the fact that such dis- 

 ease exists among his bees, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction such person shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more 

 than twenty-five dollars. 



Sec 9. If any owner or keeper of bees knows of or after being notified by 

 the bee inspector that foul brood or other infectious or contagious disease 

 exists in any of the hives in the apiaries owned or in charge of said persons 

 and shall fail to comply within ten days from receiving said knowledge and the 

 date of receiving instructions from the county inspector to cure or destroy the 

 bees or hives, or their appliances, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and upon conviction thereof such person shall be fined not less than ten dollars 

 nor more than twenty-five dollars. 



Sec. 10. When the owner or possessor of bees shall disobey the directions of 

 said bee inspector in curing or destroying any diseased bees, honey, hives, or 

 appliances shall become unlawful and a public nuisance, and the said bee in- 

 spector shall at once destroy said bees, honey, hives, or appliances, and may 

 deputize such additional persons as he may find necessary to effect said de- 

 struction. 



Sec. 11. The inspector shall make a monthly report in writing, under oath, to 

 the board of county commissioners, in which report he shall state the days and 

 number of hours in the preceding month spent by him in the actual discharge 

 of his duties, and shall in said report state the name of the owner or keeper, 

 and the location of the apiary upon which such time was spent in curing or de- 

 stroying said bees, together with an itemized account, showing the dates and 

 amounts for what incurred, money spent for any discharge of his duties, and to 

 whom the same was paid, and for what services and considerations such indebt- 

 edness was incurred, and accompany said report with the affidavits given him 

 under and in pursuance of section 3 of this act, and make full and complete re- 

 port of all he did and results of his treatment of any apiary. 



Sec. 12. After the inspector of bees in any county shall make report, as pro- 

 vided in the preceding section, said county commissioner shall allow to said in- 

 spector of bees two dollars for a full day, and one dollar for each half day, 

 necessarily and actually employed in the discharge of his duties under this act, 

 together with his necessary and actual expenses while so employed, to be audited, 

 allowed, and paid by the county treasurer upon the warrant of the county 

 auditor. 



Sec. 12 a. There shall be levied annually on the owner of each colony of bees 

 in each county in the State an annual tax of one (1) cent for each colony owned, 

 which levy shall be placed on the tax duplicate of the county by the auditor of 

 such county at the time of the levy of other taxes each year, and such levy 

 shall be predicated upon the returns for taxation as made to such auditor by the 

 assessors having jurisdiction in the premises for the return of personal property 

 for taxation ; such assessors shall be provided with blanks necessary to procure 

 such returns from owners of colonies of bees, who shall on demand be required 

 to list the same for taxation for the purposes of this act, as in other cases of 

 listing and valuation of personality for taxation. The county treasurer shall 

 collect the amount of said tax so assessed in the same manner and at the same 

 time he collects other taxes, and the same shall be certified to him by the county 

 auditor in the same manner as other taxes for collection. The amount so col- 



