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AN ACT FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF FOUL BROOD AMONG BEES. 

 His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly 

 of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows : 



1. This Act may be known as "The Foul Brood Act." 



2. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council, upon the recommendation of the Minister 

 of Agriculture, may from time to- time appoint one or more Inspectors of Apiaries 

 to enforce this Act, and the Inspector shall, if so required, produce the certificate 

 of his appointment on entering upon any premises in the discharge of his duties. 

 And the Minister shall' instruct and control each Inspector in the carrying out of 

 the provisions of this Act. The remuneration to be paid to any Inspector under 

 this Act shall be determined by order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. 



3. The Inspector shall, whenever so directed by the Minister of Agriculture, 

 visit without unnecessary delay any locality in the Province of Ontario and there 

 examine any apiary or apiaries to which the said Minister may direct him, and 

 ascertain whether or not the disease known as "foul brood" exists in such apiary 

 or apiaries, and wherever the said Inspector is satisfied of the existence of foul 

 brood in its virulent or malignant type, it shall be the duty of the Inspector to 

 order all colonies so affected, together with the hives occupied by them, and the 

 contents of such hives, and all tainted appurtenances that cannot be disinfected, 

 to be immediately destroyed by fire under the' personal direction and superin- 

 tendence of the said inspector ; but where the inspector, who shall be the sole 

 judge thereof, is satisfied that the disease exists, but only in milder types and in 



' its incipient stages, and is being or may be treated successfully, and the inspector 

 Tias reason to believe that it may be entirely cured, then the inspector' may, in his 

 discretion, omit to destroy or order the destruction of the colonies and hives in 

 which the disease exists. 



4. The inspector shall have full power in his discretion, to order the owner 

 or possessor of any bees dwelling in box or immovable frame hives, to transfer 

 them to movable frame hives within a specified time, and in default the inspector 

 ■may destroy, or order the destruction of such hives and the bees dwelling therein. 



5. Any owner or possessor of diseased colonies of bees, or of any infected 

 appliances for beekeeping, who knowingly sells or barters or gives away such 

 diseased colonies or infected appliances, shall, on conviction thereof, before any 

 Justice of the Peace, be liable to fine of not less than $50 or more than $100, or 

 to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two months. 



6. Any person whose bees have been destroyed or treated for foul brood, who 

 sells or offers for sale any bees, hives or appurtenances of any kind, after such 

 destruction or treatment, and before being authorized by the inspector so to do, 

 or who exposes in his bee-yard, or elsewhere, any infected comb, honey, or other 

 infected thing, or conceals the«fact that said disease exists among his bees, shall, 

 on conviction before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine of not less than 

 $20 and not more than $50, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two 

 months, and not less than one month. 



7. Any owner or possessor of bees who refuses to allow the Inspector to freely 

 examine said bees, or the premises in which they are kept, or who refuses to 

 destroy the infected bees and appurtenances, or to permit them to be destroyed 

 when so directed by the inspector, may, on the complaint of the inspector, be 

 summoned before a Justice of the Peace, and, on conviction, shall be liable to 

 a fine of not less than $25, and not more than $50 for the first offence, and not less 

 than $50 and not more than $100 for the second and any subsequent offence, and 

 the said Justice of the Peace shall make an order directing the said owner and 

 possessor forthwith to carry out the directions of the inspector. 



