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Sec. 2. The inspector shall, when notified, examine all reported apiaries, and all 
_ others in the same locality not reported, and ascertain whether or not the disease 
known as foul brood exists in such apiaries; and if satisfied of the existence of foul 
brood, he shall give the owners or care takers of the diseased apiaries full instrue- 
tions how to treat said cases, as in the inspector’s judgment seems best. 
Sec. 3. The inspector, who shall be the sole judge, shall visit all diseased apiaries 
a second time, and, if need be, burn all colonies of bees and combs that he may find 
not cured of foul brood. 
Sec. 4. If the owner of a diseased apiary, honey, or appliances, shall sell, barter, 
or give away any bees, honey, or appliances, or expose other bees to the danger of 
said disease, or refuse to allow said inspector to inspect such apiary, honey, or appli- 
ances, said owner shall, on conviction before a justice of the peace, be liable to a 
fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred, or not less than one 
month’s imprisonment in the county jail nor more than two months’ imprisonment. 
Sec. 5. The inspector of apiaries shall make an annual report to the governor of 
Wisconsin, giving the number of apiaries visited, the number of diseased apiaries 
found, the number of colonies treated, also the number of colonies destroyed by 
fire, and his expenses. d 
| Sec. 6. There is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the State treasury not 
_ otherwise appropriated, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars per year for the 
suppression of foul brood among bees in Wisconsin. Said inspector shall receive 
four dollars per day and traveling expenses, for actual time served, which sum shall 
not exceed the moneys hereby appropriated, to be paid by the State treasurer upon 
warrants drawn and approved by the governor. 
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and 
publication. 
Approved April 1, 1897. 
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ONTARIO, CANADA. 
Aw Act for the suppression of foul brood among bees. (Assented to 7th April, 1890.) 
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the legislative assembly of the Province 
of Ontario, enacis as follows : 
1. (1) The Ontario Beekeepers’ Association shall at each annual meeting, or the 
directors of the said association shall, if in the interval between two annual meet- 
ings the occasion should arise, appoint an inspector of apiaries, and a subinspector 
for the Province of Ontario, and the said inspector and subinspector shall be elected 
by the vote of the majority of the members of said association present at the annual 
meeting, or the vote of the majority of the directors, as the case may be. Any 
annual meeting may delegate the annual appointment of an inspector and subin- 
spector to the newly elected board of directors. (2) The saidsubinspector may, when 
so directed, as hereinafter provided, perform all the duties and exercise all the powers 
in this act directed to be performed or exercised by the inspector, and the provisions 
of this act, relating to the inspector, shall be deemed to apply to and include the said 
subinspector. (3) The inspector or subinspector on entering upon any premises in 
the discharge of his duties shall, if so required, produce the certificate of the presi- 
dent of the said association that he has been appointed as such inspector or subin- 
spector, as the case may be. 
2. The said inspector and subinspector shall hold office for one year from the date 
of the annual meeting at which they were appointed, or if they shall have been 
_ appointed by the directors, then until the next annual meeting after such appoint- 
ment, and shall be eligible for reelection; but the said inspector or subinspector may 
at any time, subject to the approval of the lieutenant-governor in council, be 
removed from office by the directors for neglect of duty or other sufficient cause, 
and in case of such removal the directors shall without delay appoint a successor. 
