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owner or owners upon whom notice aforesaid has been served, and who shall 

 refuse or neglect to abate tlie same within the time specified, it shall be the duty 

 of the inspector to abate the same, either by treating the disease or by destroy- 

 ing the infected hives, together with their combs and bees therein. The expense 

 thereof shall be a county charge, and the board of supervisors shall allow and 

 pay same out of the general fund of the county. 



Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the county inspector of apiaries to keep a record 

 of his official acts and doings, and make a monthly report thereof to the board 

 of supervisors ; and the board of supervisors may withhold warrants for salary 

 of said inspector until such time as said report is made. 



Sec. 4. The salary of the, county inspector of apiaries shall be three dollars 

 per day when actually engaged in the performance of his duties. 



Sec. 5. An act entitled "An act to authorize the board of supervisors of the 

 several counties of this State to appoint inspectors of apiaries, and provide for 

 their compensation, and defining their duties, and for the further protection of 

 bee culture," approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, is 

 hereby repealed. 



Sec. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force ^rbm and after its passage. 



Approved February 20, 1901. 



Chapter VI. 



An Act to amend section foui' of an act entitled "An act to promote the apicultural 

 interests of the State of California by providing county inspectors of apiaries, and 

 defining their duties, and providing for their compensation, and repealing the act 

 entitled 'An act to authorize the hoard of supervisors of the several counties of this 

 State to appoint Inspectors of apiaries, and provide for their compensation, and de- 

 fining their duties, and for the further protection of bee culture,' approved March 13, 

 1883," said flrst-named act having been approved February 20, 1901, and adding five 

 new sections to said act, to be numbered and designated as sections seven, eight, nine, 

 ten, and eleven, and providing for mailing the violation of certain sections thereof 

 a misdemeanor. 



The people of the §tate of California, represented in senate^and assembly, do 

 enact as follows: 



Section 1. Section four of an act entitled "An act to promote the apicultural 

 interests of the State of California by providing county inspectors of apiaries, 

 and defining their duties, and providing for their compensation, and repealing 

 Ahe act entitled 'An act to authorize the board of supervisors of the several 

 counties of this State to appoint inspectors of apiaries, and provide for their 

 compensation, and diefining their duties, and for the further" protection of bee 

 culture,' approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three," ap- 

 proved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and one, is hereby amended so as 

 to read as follows : 



Sec. 4. The salary of the county inspector of apiaries shall be four dollars 

 per day when actually engaged in the performance of his duties, and itemized 

 necessary traveling expenses incurred in the performance of his duties as pre- 

 scribed in this act. 



Sec. 2. There is hereby added to said act five new sections, to be numbered 

 {ind designated as section seven, section eight, section nine, section ten, and 

 section eleven, and to read as follows : 



" Sec. 7. The Inspector of apiaries may, in his discretion, order the owner 

 or owners or other person in charge of bees kept in box or other immovable or 

 stationary comb hives in apiaries infected with foul brood or any other in- 

 fectious or contagious disease or within a radius of three miles of such diseased 



