this act gives ample power to control bee diseases and assures proper 
respect for property rights as well as, if not better than, similar 
acts for other states. 
Believing sufficient restrictions were not provided for incoming bees 
and apiary material capable of carrying disease, in 1915 a bill was 
enacted to take care of such incoming bees and material in a way 
which will provide protection and insure justice to all concerned. 
This act is known as Chapter 104, Laws of 1915, and follows in 
full. 
CHAPTER 104. 
LAWS OF 1915. 
A FourTHER SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled “An act to supple- 
ment an act entitled ‘An act to prevent the introduction into and the 
spread of injurious insects in New Jersey, to provide a method 
for compelling their destruction, to create the office of State Ento- 
mologist, to authorize inspection of nurseries and to provide for 
certificates of inspection, approved April fourteenth, one thousand 
nine hundred and three; to provide for the inspection of apiaries and 
for the suppression of contagious or infectious diseases among hees,” 
approved March twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred and eleven. 
Be 1T ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State 
of New Jersey: 
1. No colony or nucleus of bees or used apiary supplies coming 
from a state or country having apiary inspection service shall be 
accepted for transportation to points within the State of New Jersey 
by any person or common carrier unless accompanied by a valid 
certificate of inspection, stating that such colony or nucleus of bees 
or used apiary supplies are free from infectious or contagious bee 
diseases. Any colony or nucleus of bees or used apiary supplies 
coming into the State from a state or country having no apiary in- 
spection service shall be immediately reported by the consignee and 
by the common carrier or person delivering same in this State, 
giving name and address of consignee, to the State Entomologist, 
who shall cause said shipment to be inspected at such time as shall 
be expedient; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall 
be construed to apply to the delivery of queen bees when not accom- 
panied by brood or comb, or bees shipped in wire cages when not 
accompanied with brood or comb. Any person offending against 
the requirements or provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty 
of twenty-five dollars for each offense, to be recovered in action of 
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