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MASSACHUSETTS LAWS WITH EEFEEENCE TO CON- 

 TAGIOUS BEE DISEASES. 



Chapter 663, Acts of 1910. 



An Act to provide for the appointment of an in- 

 spector OF APIARIES AND FOR THE SUPPRESSION AND 

 CONTROL OF CONTAGIOUS BEE DISEASES. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. The state board of agriculture shall appoint 

 some person qualified by scientific training and practical ex- 

 perience in bee keeping to be state inspector of apiaries, to 

 serve until the thirty-first day of March in the year nineteen 

 hundred and eleven, who shall be responsible to the said 

 board for the performance of his duties under this act, and 

 may be removed from office by the said board for neglect of 

 duty or malfeasance in office. The inspector of apiaries, 

 with the approval of the said board, may appoint such 

 deputies, not exceeding three, as he may deem necessary. 

 The inspector and each of his deputies shall receive five 

 dollars for each day of service actually rendered under this 

 act and the amount of the travelling and other necessary 

 expenses incurred in said service. 



Section 2. It shall be the duty of the inspector of 

 apiaries to prepare and distribute from time to time such 

 literature upon the subject of bee culture, with the approval 

 of the state board of agriculture, as may be deemed advisa- 

 ble. He shall also make or cause to be made through his 

 deputies, annually, such inspection of the apiaries through- 

 out the state as may be deemed necessary to discover and 

 suppress all bee diseases of a contagious nature, and he shall 

 have authority, with the approval of the said board, to make 

 and issue reasonable regulations for carrying out the provi- 

 sions of this act. 



