192 LAWS AGAINST FOUL BROOD. 
Sec. 4. Every person owning or keeping honeybees in this State shall cause 
all bees owned or kept by him or her to be inspected at his or her own expense 
as hereinafter provided. Every person neglecting or refusing to cause all 
such bees to be duly inspected as hereinafter provided shall be deemed guilty of 
a misdemeanor, and shall pay a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than 
one hundred dollars for each offense upon conviction thereof: Provided, That if 
upon inspection of any colony or colonies of bees the disease of foul brood or 
other infection or contagion shall be found to exist, and such inspector shall be 
of the opinion that by proper treatment such disease or contagion or infection 
may be removed, he shall so certify officially in his certificate of inspection, and 
the owner or owners of such bees shall be entitled to keep such bees for the 
period of six months for treatment, and at the expiration of said time, if such 
disease, infection, or contagion shall not be eradicated, such bees shall be de- 
stroyed, as hereinbefore provided, and any person or persons having in pos- 
session any brood, comb, beehives, honey, or apparatus used in connection with 
bee culture, found in like manner to be infected with foul brood or infectious or 
contagious disease, such person shall be allowed the period of thirty days to 
disinfect the same, but no longer, and if at the end of said period of thirty days 
said disinfection shall not have been complete, such brood, comb, beehive, honey, 
or apparatus shall be destroyed as hereinbefore provided. 
Sec. 5. Every person engaged in beekeeping in this State, either as owner, 
agent, or lessee, in infected districts, shall cause to be inspected at least once in 
each year each and every brood or colony of bees, brood comb, and honey in his 
or her possession or under his or her control, and procure a certificate of such 
inspection showing the true condition of each and every ohe of the above-named 
articles in his or her possession as to the existence of foul brood or other infec- 
tious or contagious disease, in duplicate, one of which duplicates shall be left 
with such person and the other shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of 
the county where such bees or honey or brood comb is kept. 
Sec. 6. Upon the application of the Nebraska State Beekeepers’ Association, 
or other person or persons interested in bee culture residing in any county in 
this State, the governor may appoint a suitable persoh, resident of said county, 
inspector of bees and honey for said county, who shall be sworn to perform the 
duties of such office faithfully and impartially, whose duty it shall be to in- 
spect all bees, brood combs, honey within his said county when called upon for 
said purpose, and shall be entitled to receive the sum of two dollars for each 
day or part of a day necessarily employed in making such inspection, to be paid 
by the owner or agent or lessee in whose possession such bees, brood comb, or 
honey may be when inspected. Such inspectors shall make certificates in dupli- . 
eate, and shall give one to the owners or persons in charge of such bees, or 
brood combs, or honey, and file the other in the office of the county clerk as 
aforesaid. 
Took effect June 6th, 1885. 
NEW MEXICO. 
CHAPTER 43. 
An Act relating to foul brood and other contagious diseases among bees. 
Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of New Mesico: 
SECTION 1. That hereafter all bee keepers, owners, and possessors of bees, 
apiaries, bee hives, and apparatus pertaining to bees, bee keepers, apiaries, and 
bee hives shall keep the same properly protected and disinfected and free from 
