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of supervisors to such commissioner for any services under this act unless foul brood 
is found to exist. 
Src. 8. In all suits and prosecutions under this act it shall be necessary to prove 
that said bees were actually diseased or infected with foul brood. 
NEBRASKA. 
CHAPTER 82.—BEEs. 
SECTION 1. Itshall be unlawful for any person to keep or have in possession in this 
State any honeybees, brood comb, or honey known to possess or be infected with 
the disease known as ‘‘foul brood” or with any other infectious or contagious dis- 
ease peculiar to bees and honey, contrary to the provisions of this act, or to keep or 
to have in possession any beehive or other receptacle in which foul brood, diseased 
bees, or infected honey is known to have been kept. Every person violating any 
provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con- 
viction thereof shall pay a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hun- 
dred for each offense, or be confined in the county jail not more than thirty days. 
Src. 2. Any honeybees, brood comb, or honey owned or kept or found in this 
State, known to be affected with foul brood or other infectious or contagious disease, 
and any beehive or receptacle in which any bees, brood comb, or honey shall have 
been kept, known to have been infected with any infectious or contagious disease, 
shall be destroyed immediately and completely by burning, by the owner thereof or 
the person or persons in whose possession the same may be. 
Sec. 3. Every person owning or having in his or her possession, or under his or 
her control, any honeybees, brood comb, honey, beehive, or receptacle or apparatus 
known to be infected with any infectious or contagious disease peculiar to honey- 
bees or honey, or in which any diseased bees or infected honey shall have been kept, 
who shall not immediately cause the same to be destroyed as provided in section 2 
of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 
shall pay a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for 
each oftense, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty days for each 
offense. 
Src. 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 Jess 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 destroyed, as hereinbefore provided, and any person or persons having in 
possession 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 disin- 
fection shall not have been complete, such brood, comb, beehive, honey, or apparatus 
shall be destroyed as hereinbefore provided. 
Src. 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 posses- 
