1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to 
have or keep in his or their possession or in any apiary, any colony 
of bees infected by the diseases known as American foulbrood or 
European foulbrood or by any other disease which is contagious or 
infectious in its nature and injurious to honey bees in their egg, 
larval, pupal or adult stages, and any person, firm or corporation 
so having in his or their keeping or in his or their possession any 
colony of bees so infected, after notice of the existence of such 
disease given as hereinafter provided, shall become and be subject 
to a penalty of twenty-five dollars, to be collected as hereinafter 
provided. 
2. It shall be the duty of any person, firm or corporation in 
the State of New Jersey who is engaged in the rearing of queen- 
bees for sale, to have his or their apiary inspected at least twice 
during each summer, and it shall be unlawful to ship from such 
queen-rearing apiaries any package or parcel containing queen-bees 
without having attached to it a certificate from the State Entomologist, 
giving the date of the last inspection, and containing the state- 
ment that the apiary in which such queen-bees were reared was, 
at the time of such inspection, free from American or European 
foulbrood, or other discoverable contagious or infectious disease. 
Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be liable 
to a penalty of fifty dollars, recoverable as hereinafter provided. 
3. It shall be the duty of the State Entomologist, designated as 
provided in the act to which this is a supplement, by himself or 
by a deputy appointed as provided in said act, to investigate, or 
cause to be investigated, all apiaries or other places where bees are 
kept or raised in New Jersey, and to study and investigate, or cause 
to be studied and investigated, outbreaks of bee disease and other 
conditions unfavorable to the development of bees within the State. 
It shall also be the duty of said entomologist to investigate all com- 
plaints of the existence of disease of any kind in apiaries or other 
places where bees are kept, and to inspect or cause to be inspected 
at least twice each season, when requested by the owner, all apiaries 
where queen-bees are reared for sale. It shall further be the duty of 
said State Entomologist, whenever he finds any apiary where queen- 
bees are raised free from foulbrood or other discoverable infectious 
or contagious disease, to furnish the owner of such apiary with a 
certificate stating that fact, and such certificate shall state the date 
beyond which it will not be effective. 
4. Whenever in the course of the inspections or investigations 
made or carried on as provided in this act by the State Entomologist 
or under his direction, said State Entomologist shall become aware 
of the existence of American or European foulbrood or other infec- 
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