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held on the 1st of May, A. D.1893. Present: Supervisors Victor, Turner, Lord, White, 
and Randall. 
The ordinance was first considered section by section, and each section adopted 
separately, and afterwards the ordinance was adopted as a whole. 
Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4, and this ordinance as a whole, were adopted by a unani- 
mous vote of Supervisors Victor, Turner, Lord, White, and Randall. 
Witness our hands and the seal of the board of supervisors on this 1st day of 
May, A. D. 1893. 
Attest: 
T. J. BOLTON, 
Clerk of Board of Supervisors. 
J. N. Victor, Chairman. 
COLORADO. 
An Act to amend an act to suppress and eradicate foul brood and other infectious and contagious 
diseases of bees, approved April 18, 1889, and to provide penalties for violation thereof.* 
Be it enacted by the general assembly of the State of Colorado: 
SECTION 1. Upon the written application, under oath of the president or sec- 
retary of the Colorado State Beekeepers’ Association, or of any five actual bee- 
keepers, resident in any county in this State, alleging, upon information and belief, 
that the disease known as foul brood, or any other contagious or infectious disease, 
exists among bees in said county, or that infected articles are kept in said county, 
and that there is danger that such disease will spread to other apiaries, being made 
to the county court of said county or to the judge thereof, at chambers, the said 
court or judge shall, by order to be entered in the records of said court, appoint 
some competent, actual beekeeper, resident in said county, to be county inspector 
of bees; and the applicants shall state in this application the names of the actual 
beekeepers of the county, so far as known to them. 
Sec. 2. The person so appointed shall within five days after his appointment file 
with the clerk of such court his written acceptance of the office, or in default 
thereof the judge or court shall in the same manner make new appointments until 
the said office is filled. The inspector shall hold his office during the pleasure of 
the court and until his successor is appointed and qualified. 
Src. 3. Every beekeeper or other person who shall be aware of the existence of 
foul brood, either in his own apiary or elsewhere, shall immediately notify the 
county inspector of bees, if there be one, and, if not, the secretary of the Colorado 
State Beekeepers’ Association of the existence of such disease, and in default of so 
doing shall on summary conviction before a justice of the peace be liable to a fine 
of $5 and costs. 
Sec. 4. On receiving notice from any source of the existence in any apiary in his 
county of the disease known as foul brood or any other infectious or contagious dis- 
ease of bees, the county inspector of bees shall forthwith inspect each colony of 
bees and all hives,implements and apparatus, honey, and supplies on hand or used 
in connection with such apiary, and mark or otherwise distinetly designate each 
colony and apiary which he believes infected, and notify the owner or person in 
charge of said bees thereof in writing or otherwise, and the owners of said bees or 
the person in charge thereof shall within five days thereafter either practically and 
_ in good faith apply, and thereafter fully and effectually carry out to and upon such 
diseased colonies such treatment as may have been prescribed by the Colorado State 
Beekeepers’ Association for such cases; also thoroughly disinfect, to the satisfaction 
of such inspector, all hives, beehouses, combs, honey, and apparatus that have been 
used in connection with any such diseased colonies; or, at his election, the said 
* Published by the Colorado Beekeepers’ Association, Harry Knight, secretary, Littleton, Colorado. 
