6 EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN. . 
LAW RELATIVE TO BEE INSPECTION. 
House Enrolled Act No. 144. 
An act for the suppression of contagious diseases among bees in the 
State of Michigan, by creating the office of inspector of apiaries, to 
define the duties thereof, and to appropriate money therefor, and 
to repeal act number sixty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hun- 
dred one, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith. 
The People of the State of Michigan enact: 
Section 1. The State board of agriculture is hereby authorized to 
establish apiary inspection, and to appoint a competent person as chief 
inspector, who shall under the direction of said board, have charge of 
the inspection of apiaries as hereinafter provided. Said inspector shall 
investigate or cause to be investigated outbreaks of p@e difeases, and 
cause suitable measures to be taken for their eradication or trol. 
Section 2. The inspector shall, when notified in writing bythe owner 
of an apiary, or by any three disinterested taxpayers, examine all re- 
ported apiaries and others in the same locality not reported, and ascer- 
tain whether or not the diseases known as American foul-brood or 
European foul-brood or any other disease which is infectious or cor- 
tagious in its nature, and injurious to honey bees in their egg, larval, 
pupal or adult stages, exists in such apiaries, and if satisfied of the 
existence of any such disease, shall give to the owners or care takers 
of the diseased apiaries, full instruction as to how to treat such cases: 
Provided, That if the colonies in question seem to be in such bad condi- 
tion that treatment is not likely to be successful, or if it seems to the 
inspector that the chances of obtaining a cure are remote, and of this 
the inspector shall be the sole judge, it shall be the duty of the inspector 
to destroy said colonies by fire or burying or by both, without recom- 
pense to the owner, lessee or care taker of said bees. He may also in- 
spect apiaries in localities not reported, in endeavoring to locate new 
areas of infection. 
Section 3. The inspector shall, if possible, visit all diseased apiaries 
a second time after ten days from the time of the first visit, unless he 
has reasonable assurance that his directions have been carried out, and 
if need be, without recompense to the owner, lessee, or agent thereof. 
he may destroy, in such manner as to avoid as far as possible, spread. 
ing the disease all colonies of bees that he may find still diseased, to- 
gether with the hives and all honey and appliances which may spread 
disease: Provided, That when the finding of the disease occurs in its 
incipient stages very late in the season after the honey flow has ceased 
and after it is too late to successfully treat and feed, the treatment 
may be deferred until the following spring, if such delay is necessary 
in the judgment of the inspector. 
Section 4. If the owner, possessor, agent or lessee of an apiary 
honey or appliances, wherein disease is known to the owner, possessor, 
