Sections added. Commission ers, number, qualifications. How appointed. appointment of a State Live Stock Sanitary Commission and a State Veterinarian, and to prescribe their powers and duties, and to prevent and suppress contagious and infectious diseases among the live stock of the State," as amended, sections one, three and four being sections five thousand six hundred twenty-seven, five thousand six hundred twenty-nine and five thousand six hundred thirty of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended, and two new sections are hereby added to said act to stand as sections twenty-seven and twenty-eight, said amended sections and said added sections to read as follows: SEC. 1. A commission is hereby established which shall be known under the name and style of "The State Live Stock Sanitary Commission." The commission shall consist of three commissioners who are practical agriculturalists and engaged in the live stock industries of the State, who shall be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the senate. One shall be appointed for the term of six years, one for the term of four years, and one for the term of two years, whose term of office shall commence on the second Tuesday of July of the year in which they are appointed and shall continue until their successors are appointed and qualified; and at each succeeding biennial session of the Legislature there shall be appointed in like manner one commissioner who shall hold his office six years or until his successor is Veterinarian, appointed and qualified. The Governor shall also appoint qualifications. with the advice and consent of the senate, a veterinarian who shall be a graduate of a veterinary college legally qualified to confer the veterinary degree, and who shall be skilled in the diagnosis and control of infectious diseases of live stock, and who shall be recommended by the Live Stock Sanitary Commission, and shall serve for a term of six years from the second day of September of the year nineteen hundred thirteen, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The Governor shall also appoint every six years thereafter, upon the recommendation of the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, a competent and skilled veterinarian having the qualifications above mentioned, whose term of office shall be for six years or until his successor is appointed and qualified. SEC. 3. Each commissioner shall receive the sum of five dollars per day and necessary expenses for the time actually spent in the discharge of his duties; and the Veterinary Surgeon shall receive the sum of two thousand dollars per annum and necessary expenses. The said veterinarian shall be required to carry out the directions of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission, and shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the commission to protect the health of the domestic animals of the State from all contagious or infectious diseases of a malignant character, and for this purpose it is hereby authorized and empowered to establish, maintain and enforce such quarantine, sanitary and diseased diseased other regulations as it may deem necessary. It shall be the further duty of the commission to furnish proper office facilities, at Lansing, for the State Veterinarian, and a laboratory for the investigation of infectious diseases of live stock. SEC. 24. In case of tuberculous cattle, whenever the com- Appraisal of mission shall direct the killing of such cattle, it shall be the cattle. duty of the commission to appraise the animal or animals condemned, the owner or owners thereof to receive fifty per cent of value of animals as though not diseased, but such sum in no case shall exceed the sum of fifty dollars: Pro- Proviso. vided, That the owner or owners of slaughtered animals shall receive no compensation for the same unless the commission shall be satisfied that the premises have been kept in a sanitary condition, nor shall they receive compensation until said sanitary commission is satisfied that the infected premises have been disinfected in such manner as to prevent the further spread of the disease. When the State Live Stock Slaughter of Sanitary Commission, or a member thereof, shall deem it cattle. expedient to have cattle that have reacted to the tuberculin test slaughtered under federal inspection, or under the inspection of a competent veterinarian authorized by the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, it shall have the power to order such slaughter. If the carcass of any such animal shall pass the inspection without being condemned, the owner of the animal shall receive all proceeds secured from the sale of such carcass after payment for shipping, handling and slaughtering charges have been deducted, in addition to the above mentioned fifty per cent appraisal value. If the car- Proceeds to cass of any such animal shall be condemned by the inspectors, the owner of the animal shall receive the proceeds of the sale of the hide, tallow, offal or any other proceeds from the sale of the carcass, after deducting the cost of handling, shipping and slaughtering, in addition to the above mentioned fifty per cent appraisal valuation: Provided, That Proviso. any animal, upon being slaughtered, and showing no tuberculin lesions, the owner thereof shall be paid full value for such animal, but such sum in no case shall exceed the sum of seventy-five dollars. The State Live Stock Sanitary Commission shall have power to designate the places where suspected animals shall be slaughtered, and also to employ a competent inspector to examine the carcasses of slaughtered animals. owner. SEC. 27. It shall be required of all individuals or firms who Selling of sell mallein or tuberculin to any resident of the State of mallein, etc. Michigan to report such sale immediately to the State Veterinarian, including the date of sale, name and address of par ties to whom sold, and the amount of such sale. SEC. 28. In case of an outbreak of hog cholera the State Hog cholera. Live Stock Sanitary Commission shall, upon application in writing of two or more swine owners in any locality, immediately investigate the conditions and surroundings and take such steps as in its opinion seem advisable to check the spread of the disease. All serum used shall be furnished by the State, and all expenses incurred in the administration of the serum for the prevention and spread of hog cholera shall be paid as other expenses that are incurred by the commission. Approved May 7, 1913. Inspector of apiaries. Apiaries, when examined. Proviso, when destroyed. Second visit. [No 200.] AN ACT for the suppression of contagious diseases among bees in the State of Michigan, by creating the office of Inspector of Apiaries, to define the duties thereof, and to appropriate money therefor, and to repeal act number sixtysix of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred one, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The State Board of Agriculture is hereby authorized to establish apiary inspection, and to appoint a competent person as chief inspector, who shall under the direction of said board, have charge of the inspection of apiaries as hereinafter provided. Said inspector shall investigate or cause to be investigated outbreaks of bee diseases, and cause suitable measures to be taken for their eradication or control. SEC. 2. The inspector shall, when notified in writing by the owner of an apiary, or by any three disinterested taxpayers, examine all reported apiaries and others in the same locality not reported, and ascertain whether or not the diseases known as American foul brood or European foul brood or any other disease which is infectious or contagious in its nature, and injurious to honey bees in their egg, larval, pupal or adult stages, exists in such apiaries; and if satisfied of the existence of any such disease, shall give to the owners or care takers of the diseased apiaries, full instruction as to how to treat such cases: Provided, That if the colonies in question seem to be in such bad condition that treatment is not likely to be successful, or if it seems to the inspector that the chances of obtaining a cure are remote, and of this the inspector shall be the sole judge, it shall be the duty of the inspector to destroy said colonies by fire or burying or by both, without recompense to the owner, lessee or care taker of said bees. He may also inspect apiaries in localities not reported, in endeavoring to locate new areas of infection. SEC. 3. The inspector shall, if possible, visit all diseased apiaries a second time after ten days from the time of the first visit, unless he has reasonable assurance that his directions have been carried out, and if need be, without recom pense to the owner, lessee, or agent thereof, he may destroy, of bees from. SEC. 4. If the owner, possessor, agent or lessee of an api- Diseased ary, honey or appliances, wherein disease is known to the colonies, sale owner, possessor, agent or lessee to exist, shall sell, barter or give away or remove from the premises, without the consent of the inspector, any bees from diseased colonies, be they queens, drones, or workers, honey or appliances, or expose other bees to the danger of such disease, said owner shall, on conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars and costs of prosecution: Provided, That bees may be shipped without honey Proviso. or feed containing honey, also provided that honey may be sold in tight containers for commercial purposes, other than with bees or as food for bees. etc. SEC. 5. For the enforcement of the provisions of this act, Right of the State Inspector of Apiaries shall have access, ingress ingress, etc. and egress to and from all apiaries or places where bees, combs, or apiary appliances are kept; and any person or per- Penalty for sons who shall resist, impede or hinder in any way, the In- resistance, spector of Apiaries in the discharge of his duties under the provisions of this act, shall on conviction thereof be punished by a fine not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars and costs of prosecution, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, or both at the discretion of the judge. SEC. 6. After inspecting infected bees or fixtures, or hand- Disinfection ling diseased bees, the inspector shall, before leaving the by inspector. premises, or proceeding to any other apiary, take such measures as shall prevent the spread of the disease by infected material adhering to his person or clothing or to any tools or appliances used by him, which have come in contact with infected materials. bees. etc., apiary, SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of any person in the State of Duty of person Michigan, engaged in the rearing of queen bees for sale, to rearing queen use honey in the making of candy for use in mailing-cages, which has been boiled for at least thirty minutes, unless candy which contains no honey at all is used. Any such per- Queen rearing, son engaged in the rearing of queen bees shall have his or inspection. her queen rearing and queen mating apiary or apiaries inspected at least twice during each summer season by the Inspector of Apiaries, and on the discovery of the existence of any disease which is infectious or contagious in its nature and injurious to bees in their egg, larval, pupal, or adult Penalty for violations. Hives, sealing of. Combs, etc., of diseased ing of. Penalty for exposing. stages, said person shall at once cease to ship queen bees from such diseased apiary until the Inspector of Apiaries shall declare the said apiary free from disease. On complaint of the Inspector of Apiaries or of any five bee-keepers in the State, that said bee-keeper, engaged in the rearing of queens, is violating the provisions of this section, he shall upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars. SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of any person in the State of Michigan engaged in bee-keeping to securely and tightly close the entrance of any hive or hives in apiaries not free from disease in which the bees shall have died either during the winter or at any other time, and to make the hive or hives tight in such manner that robber bees shall not find it possible to gain ingress or egress to and from such hives or to obtain honey from such hives. The sealing of the hives must be maintained so long as the hives remain in the yard or in any place where honey bees can gain access to them, and failure to comply with this provision shall constitute a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, he or she shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of any one keeping bees in the colonies, bury- State of Michigan, to deeply bury all combs and frames taken from diseased colonies, in places where they shall remain undisturbed, unless they be placed in tight receptacles so constructed that it shall be impossible for bees to gain access to combs, or for honey or any other liquid to leak out where bees can gain access to it. Anyone knowingly exposing comb, honey, frames, quilts, empty hives, covers or bottom-boards, or tools or other appliances contaminated by infected material from the same, from diseased colonies, shall on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars: Provided, That the wax may be rendered in such place or at such time that no bees will be able to gain access to the comb before it is thoroughly heated, or at any time to the liquids expressed in the process of rendering. Proviso. Imported bees, inspection, etc. Inspector's compensation; annual report. SEC. 10. All colonies of bees and all nuclei which is brought into the State of Michigan from other states or from other countries, not accompanied by a certificate of health from the official inspector of the place from whence they came, shall be reported immediately to the State Inspector of Apiaries, and such colonies or nuclei shall be inspected by him at such time as is expedient. Failure to report such importation of bees shall, on conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not less than one dollar for each colony or nucleus. SEC. 11. The State Inspector of Apiaries shall receive such compensation as the State Board of Agriculture shall determine, and said inspector shall render annual reports to the State Board of Agriculture, giving the number of apiaries visited, the number of diseased apiaries found, the number |