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sion or under his or her control, and procure a certificate of such inspection show- 
ing the true condition of each and everyone of the above-named articles in his or 
her possession as to the existence of foul brood or other infectious 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. 
Src. 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 person, resident of said county, inspector of bees 
and honey for said connty, who shall be sworn to perform the duties of such office 
faithfully and impartially, whose duty it shall be to inspect 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 duplicate, 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 YORK. 
Article V of the agricultural laws of the State of New York, contained in the laws 
of 1893, chapter 338, sections 80 and 81, reads as follows: 
Sec. 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, and 
every bee keeper, when he becomes aware of the existence of such disease among 
his bees, shall destroy or cause to be destroyed forthwith all colonies thus affected. 
In any county any five or more actual bee keepers of the county in which foul brood 
exists may present to the commissioner of agriculture a petition setting forth that 
such disease exists, or that the petitioners have reason to believe that it exists in such 
county and the reasons of such belief, and requesting him to appoint a competent 
person to prevent the spread of such disease and eradicate the same. Upon the 
receipt of such petition the commissioner of agriculture shall, within thirty days 
thereafter, appoint some well known and competent bee keeper of the county as an 
agent of the commissioner, who shall hold his office during the pleasure of the com- 
missioner of agriculture, and who shall within ten days after his appointment file 
in the office of the county clerk of the county an acceptance of the appointment and 
constitutional oath of office. 
(Pen. Code, sec. 408 a, as added by L. 1893, ch. 692, reads as follows: Violations of 
agricultural law: Any person who disregards, disobeys or violates any proclamation, 
notice, order, or regulation, lawfully issued or prescribed by the commissioner of 
agriculture for the suppression or prevention of infectious or contagious diseases 
among domestic animals, or who violates any of the provisions of sections eighty and 
eighty-two of Article V of the agricultural law is guilty of a misdemeanor). 
Src. 81. Proceedings of the agent of the commissioner.—Upon written verified com- 
plaint of any two bee keepers of the county to such agent, setting forth the existence 
of the disease or that they have good reason to believe that it exists within the county, 
and the groundsof such belief, designating the apiary or apiaries wherein they believe 
it to be, such agent shall, without unnecessary delay, examine the bees designated. 
If satisfied that any colony or colonies of such bees are diseased with foul brood, he 
shall, without further disturbance to the bees, fix some designating mark upon each 
hive wherein the disease exists, and immediately notify the owners of the bees, or by 
leaving a written notice at his place of residence, if he be a resident of the county, 
