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owner or owners upon whom notice aforesaid has been served, and who shall 
refuse or neglect to abate the same within the time specified, it shall be the duty 
of the inspector to abate the same, either by treating the disease or by destroy- 
ing the infected hives, together with their combs and bees therein. The expense 
thereof shall be a county charge, and the board of supervisors shall allow and 
pay same out of the general fund of the county. 
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the county inspector of apiaries to keep a record 
of his official acts and doings, and make a monthly report thereof to the board 
‘of supervisors; and the board of supervisors may withhold warrants for salary 
of said inspector until such time as said report is made. 
Sec. 4. The salary of the county inspector of apiaries shall be three dollars 
per day when actually engaged in the performance of his duties. 
Sec. 5. An act entitled “An act to authorize the board of supervisors of the 
several counties of this State to appoint inspectors of apiaries, and provide for 
their compensation, and defining their duties, and for the further protection of 
bee culture,” approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, is 
hereby repealed. 
Src. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
Approved February 20, 1901. 
CHAPTER VI. 
AN Act to amend section four of an act entitled “An act to promote the apicultural 
interests of the State of Caiifornia by providing county inspectors of apiaries, and 
defining their duties, and providing for their compensation, and repealing the act 
entitled ‘An act to authorize the board of supervisors of the several counties of this 
State to appoint inspectors of apiaries, and provide for their compensation, and de- 
fining their duties, and for the further protecticn of bee culture,’ approved March 18, 
1883,” said first-named act having been approved February 20, 1901, and adding five 
new sections to said act, to be numbered and designated as sections seven, eight, nine, 
ten, and eleven, and providing for making the violation of certain sections thereof 
a misdemeanor. 
The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do 
enact as follows: 
SECTION 1. Section four of an act entitled “An act to promote the apicultural 
interests of the State of California by providing county inspectors of apiaries, 
and defining their duties, and providing for their compensation, and repealing 
the act entitled ‘An act to authorize the board of supervisors of the several 
counties of this State to appoint inspectors of apiaries, and provide for their 
compensation, and defining their duties, and for the further protection of bee 
culture,’ approved March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three,” ap- 
proved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and one, is hereby amended so as 
to read as follows: 
Sec. 4. The salary of the county inspector of apiaries shall be four dollars 
per day when actually engaged in the performance of his duties, and itemized 
necessary traveling expenses incurred in the performance of his duties as pre- 
seribed in this act. 
Src. 2. There is hereby added to said act five new sections, to be numbered 
and designated as section seven, section eight, section nine, section ten, and 
section eleven, and to read as follows: 
“Sec. 7. The inspector of apiaries may, in his discretion, order the owner 
or owners or other person in charge of bees kept in box or other immovable or 
stationary comb hives in apiaries infected with foul brood or any other in- 
fectious or contagious disease or within a radius of three miles of such diseased 
