STATE LAWS RELATIVE TO FOUL BROOD. 
CALIFORNIA. 
Aw Act to authorize the board of supervisors of the several counties of this State to appoint inspect- 
ors of apiaries, and provide for their compensation, and defining their duties, and for the further 
protection of bee culture. (Approved March 13, 1883, 285.) 
SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of any county wherein bees are kept are 
hereby authorized to appoint one or more persons as inspectors of apiaries, to hold 
office during the pleasure of the said board. 
Sec. 2. The board of supervisors shall fix and determine the compensation of 
inspectors of apiaries, to be paid out of the funds of the county not otherwise 
appropriated. ; 
Sec. 3. Upon complaint being made to the inspector to the effect that, in complain- 
ant’s opinion, the disease known as ‘‘foul brood” exists in any apiary in that county, 
it shall be the duty of such inspector to inspect such apiary as soon as practicable, 
and direct the person in charge thereof to destroy all hives ascertained to be so 
affected, together with the combs and bees therein, by burning, or burying the same 
in the ground the following night. : 
Sec. 4. If the owner or person in charge of an apiary, by his own inspection or 
through any other source, discovers foul brood in any hive in said apiary it shall be 
his duty to destroy such hive and contents in the manner provided in section three of 
this act. 
Sec. 5. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of the last section shall 
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished 
by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for the first 
offense, and by a fine of not more than fifty dollars for each subsequent offense. 
SEc. 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY ORDINANCE. 
An ordinance for the further protection of bee culture. 
The board of supervisors of the county of San Bernardino, State of California, do 
ordain as follows: 
SECTION 1. Any person bringing into this county any hive or ieee of bees affected 
with the disease known as foul brood shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars or not over ten days’ 
ae eee in the county jail. 
Src. 2. Any person selling and transferring to any other person in this county any 
hive or Hives of bees affected with the disease known as foul brood shall be guilty of a 
misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be subject to the penalty prescribed 
for a violation of section 1 hereof. 
Src. 3. It shall be the duty of the county inspector of apiaries, on receiving notice 
from any owner of bee hives requesting him to examine said hives, to at once pro- 
ceed to inspect the same and issue his certificate setting forth the condition in which 
he finds said bee hives, and if said certificate shows said disease known as foul brood 
to exist among said bees, said bee hives so affected shall at once be disposed of as 
provided by the laws of this State. 
Sec. 4. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after the first day 
of June, A. D. 1893. 
The foregoing ordinance, containing four sections, was adopted by the board of 
supervisors of San Bernardino County, California, at a regular meeting of said board, 
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