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agent or lessee to exist, shall sell, barter or give away or remove from 
the premises, without the consent of the inspector, any bees from dis- 
eased colonies, be they queens, drones, or workers, honey or appliances, 
or expose other bees to the danger of such disease, said owner shall, 
on conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars 
nor more than fiftv dollars and costs of prosecution: Provided, That 
bees may be shipped without honey or feed containing honey, also pro- 
vided that honey may be sold in tight containers for commercial pur- 
poses, other than with bees or as food for bees. 
Section 5: For the enforcement of the provisions of this act, the’ 
State inspector of apiaries shall have access, ingress and egress to and 
from all apiaries or places where bees, combs, or apiary appliances 
are kept; and any person or persons who shall resist, impede or hinder 
in any way, the inspector of apiaries in the discharge of his duties under 
the provisions of this act, shall on conviction thereof be punished by 
a fine*not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars and costs 
of prosecution, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten 
days nor more than thirty days, or both at the discretion of the judge. 
Section 6. After inspecting infected bees or fixtures, or handling dis- 
eased bees, the inspector shall, before leaving the premises, or proceed- 
ing to anyeother apiary, take such measures as shall prevent the spread 
of the disease by infected material adhering to his person or clothing 
or to any tools or appliances used by him, Ee have come in contact 
with infected materials. 
Section 7. It shall be the duty of any person in the State of Mich- 
igan, engaged in the rearing of queen bees for sale, to use honey in the 
making of candy for use in mailing-cages. which has been boiled for 
at least thirty minutes, unless candy which contains no honey at all 
is used. Any such person engaged in the rearing of queen bees shall 
have his or her queen rearing and queen mating apiary or apiaries in- 
spected at least twice during each summer season by the inspector of 
apiaries, and on the discovery of the existence of any disease which is 
infectious or contagious in its nature and injurious to bees in their 
egg, larval, pupal, or adult stages, said person shall at once cease to 
ship queen bees from such diseased apiary until the inspector of apiaries 
shall declare the said apiary free from disease. On complaint of the 
inspector of apiaries or of any five bee-keepers in the State, that said 
bee-keeper, engaged in the rearing of queens, is violating the provisions 
of this section, he shall upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not 
less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 
Section 8. It shall be the duty of any person in the State of Michigan 
engaged in bee-keeping to securely and tightly close the entrance of any 
hive or hives in apiaries not free from disease in which the bees shall 
have died either during the winter or at any other time, and to make 
the hive or hives tight in such manner that robber bees shall not find it 
possible to gain ingress or egress to and from such hives or to obtain 
honey from such hives. The sealing of the hives must be maintained 
so long as the hives remain in the yard or in any place where honey 
bees can gain access to them, and failure to comply with this provision 
shall constitute a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, he or she shall 
be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty- 
five dollars for cach offense. 
