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all foul brood or other contagious diseases, and shall be required to keep all 
bees, bee hives, bee houses, apiaries, combs, honey, and apparatus free from all 
foul brood or other contagious diseases. 
Sec. 2. That any person or persons who have in their possession or under 
their control any bees, bee hives, bee houses, combs, or apparatus pertaining to 
bees or apiaries and who shall allow the same to become infected or diseased 
with any foul brood or contagious diseases, and who shall wilfully and know- 
ingly permit them to remain in such condition, shall be deemed guilty of mis- 
demeanor and upon trial and conviction before any justice of the peace may 
be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars or more than fifty dollars, or by 
imprisonment in the county jail not more than 30 days, or by both such fine and 
imprisonment. 
Src. 38. That any person competent to testify as a witness may, upon informa- 
tion and belief, make complaint before any justice of the peace in any county 
in this Territory in which such foul brood or contagious diseases among bees 
is found to exist, and upon such written complaint being made in writing and 
duly sworn to as required by law the justice before whom such complaint is 
made shall issue a warrant for the arrest of the offender and shall fully inquire, 
examine into, and try said cause as now provided for the trial of LU S(OLSIEE ee OES 
before a justice of the peace. 
Sec. 4. That upon the trial of said cause, that any bees, bee hives, combs, 
honey, or apparatus connected with said apiary or bee keeper that be found by 
said justice of the peace before whom such trial is had to be diseased or infected 
with foul brood or any other contagious diseases shall by such justice of the 
peace be declared to be a nuisance and shall be condemned as such and an order 
or writ issued for the destruction of such nuisance, and upon the issuing of such 
order and such writ directed to any constable or sheriff of such county such 
constable or such sheriff to whom such order or writ is directed and delivered 
shall forthwith execute the same by burning, destroying, and putting out of ex- 
istence all such bees, bee hives, bee houses, comb, honey, or apparatus so de- 
clared to be and condemned as a nuisance. 
Sec. 5. Justices of the peace in their respective counties shall have jurisdic- 
tion in all causes arising under the provisions of this act, and their costs in 
cases under this act shall be taxed up and assessed as cases in other cases of 
misdemeanor before justice of the peace. 
Sec. 6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed, and 
this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
Approved March 9, 1905. 
NEW YORK. 
AGRICULTURAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AS AMENDED TO JULY, 1905. 
ARTICLE VI. 
§ 80. The prevention of diseases among bees. No person shall keep in his 
apiary any colony of bees affected with a contagious malady known as foul 
brood or black brood; and every bee keeper, when he becomes aware of the 
existence of either of such diseases among his bees, shall immediately notify 
the commissioner of agriculture of the existence of such disease. (As amended 
by chapier 214 of the Laws of 1902.) 
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