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foul brood, he shall give the owner or care-taker of the diseased apiaries 

 full instructions how to treat said case as in the inspector's judgment 

 seems best. 



Sec. 3. The inspector who shall be the sole judge may visit all dis- 

 eased apiaries a second time and if need be burn all colonies of bees 

 and combs that may be found not cured of foul brood or other conta- 

 gious diseases. 



Sec. 4. If the owner of a diseased apiary, honey or appliances shall 

 knowingly or wilfully sell, barter, or give away any bees, honey or ap- 

 pliances, or expose other bees to the danger of said disease or refuse to 

 allow said inspector to inspect' such apiary, honey or appliances, said 

 owners shall on conviction before a justice of the peace, be liable to a 

 fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, 

 or not less than one month's imprisonment in the county jail, nor more 

 than two months' imprisonment. 



Sec. 5. In addition to such individual reports as are required under 

 this act by the Inspector of Apiaries, he shall make an annual report 

 to the Dairy and Food Commissioner, giving the number of the apiaries 

 visited, the number of diseased apiaries found, the number of colonies 

 treated, also the number of colonies destroyed by fire, and an itemized 

 account of his transportation expenses with affidavit annexed thereto. 



Sec. 6. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State 

 treasury not otherwise appropriated a sum not exceeding five hundred 

 dollars per year for the suppression of foul brood among bees in Michi- 

 gan. The inspector shall receive three dollars per day and actual trans- 

 portation expenses for actual time served, which sum shall not exceed 

 the money hereby appropriated, to be paid by the State Treasurer upon 

 warrants drawn by the Auditor General and approved by the Dairy and 

 Food Commissioner. 



Sec. 7. Act number one hundred forty-one of the Public Acts of 

 eighteen hundred eighty-one, being sections fifty-six hundred sixty-three, 

 fifty-six hundred sixty-four, fifty-six hundred sixty-five, fifty-six hun- 

 dred sixty-six, fifty-six hundred sixty-seven, fifty-six hundred sixty- 

 eight, fifty-six hundred sixty-nine and fifty-six hundred seventy of the 

 Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby repealed. 



This act is ordered to take immediate effect. 



J. M. RANKIN, 



Apiarist. 

 C. D. SMITH, 



Director. 

 Agricultural College, Mich., June 4, 1901. 



