district, prorating said amount received by the county among the different townships and school districts, according to the number of acres of such lands located in each township and school district. The amount shall be further prorated in each township and school district, according to the amount of township and school taxes levied in such township and school district during the preceding year not including, however, taxes levied for state and county purposes. The county treasurer shall forthwith issue his warrant to each of said townships and school districts according to said statement. conserva SEC. 2. The department of conservation shall enter upon Duty of their records against each description of said lands the tion departamounts provided by this act and shall certify the same to ment. the auditor general, who shall draw his warrant on the state treasurer therefor, to be paid out of any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated. Such amounts shall be forwarded by the department of conservation to the county treasurers. Approved April 22, 1927. [No. 60.] AN ACT for the suppression of contagious diseases among bees in the state of Michigan; placing the enforcement in the hands of the commissioner of agriculture; to fix penalties, to allow boards of supervisors of the several counties to appropriate money for the purpose herein stated, and to repeal act number two hundred sixty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-three. The People of the State of Michigan enact: inspection SECTION 1. The commissioner of agriculture is hereby Apiary authorized to establish apiary inspection and to have charge established. of the inspection of apiaries as hereinafter provided. Said commissioner shall investigate or cause to be investigated outbreaks of bee diseases, and cause suitable measures to be taken for their eradication or control. apiaries, SEC. 2. The commissioner shall, when notified in writing Examinaby the owner of an apiary, or by any three disinterested tax- tion of payers, examine all reported apiaries and others in the same when made. locality not reported, and ascertain whether or not the disease known as American foul-brood or European foul-brood or any other disease which is infectious or contagious in its nature, and injurious as to honey bees in their eggs, larval, pupal or adult stages, exists in such apiaries, and of this the commissioner shall be the sole judge, and should any of the when dissaid diseases exist in such apiaries it shall be the duty of the ease exists. When may destroy colonies. Penalty for selling, etc., d.seased bees. Proviso. May forbid transporta etc. lamation to describe. Posting. commissioner to destroy said colonies. together with the hives and all honey and appliances by fire and burying without recompense to the owner, lessee or caretaker of said bees. It shall further be the duty of the commissioner of agriculture to destroy or cause to be disinfected immediately, all used beekeeping equipment situated in diseased areas. He may also inspect apiaries in localities not reported in endeavoring to locate new areas of infection. SEC. 3. The commissioner shall, if possible, visit all diseased apiaries a second time during the inspection season, and without recompense to the owner, lessee or agent thereof, he may destroy all colonies of bees that he may find diseased at that time, together with the hives and all honey and appliances which may spread disease. SEC. 4. If the owner, possessor, agent or lessee of an apiary, honey or appliances, shall sell, barter or give away, or remove from the premises, without the consent of the commissioner, any bees from diseased colonies except in combless packages, with food not made with honey, 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, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court: Provided, That bees may be shipped without honey 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. SEC. 5. The commissioner of agriculture shall have authtion of bees, ority by general proclamation to forbid the transportation of bees, honey, wax, combs, hives, or other used beekeeping apparatus from any township, city, village or county, or from any part thereof. Notice of such proclamation shall be given by posting copies thereof in not less than five public places within the territory described in said proclamation, and by publishing in at least one newspaper circulating in such What proc- territory. Such proclamation shall suitably describe the ter ritory affected sufficiently to properly identify it. and shall state the period during which the order of the commissioner of agriculture shall be effective. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of agriculture to post the same forthwith and make a return in writing as to the fulfillment of this duty. During the time prescribed by such proclamation it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to bring into or remove from the territory described in said proclamation any bees on combs, honey, beeswax, hives, or other supplies which have been used without first having received a permit so to do from the commissioner of agriculture, which permit shall be attached to the package containing the bees or goods so transported: Provided, however, That common carriers. may transport bees, honey, wax or supplies through the area Proviso. apiaries, described in said proclamation if the shipment originated outside of said area and is destined for some point outside of it. For the enforcement of the provisions of this act, the Access to all commissioner of agriculture and his deputies shall have ac- etc. cess, ingress and egress to and from all apiaries or places where bees, combs, or apiary appliances are kept; and no person shall resist, impede, or hinder said commissioner or his deputies in the discharge of his or their duties. Any vio- Violation a lation of the provisions of this act shall be deemed a misde- meanor: meanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten penalty. dollars nor more than fifty dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days. nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. misde measures. SEC. 6. After inspecting infected bees or fixtures, or hand- Preventive ling diseased bees, the commissioner shall, before leaving the 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. in making SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of any person in the state of Honey used Michigan engaged in the rearing of queen bees for sale, to use candy for honey in the making of candy for use in mailing-cages, which cages. has been boiled for at least thirty minutes, unless candy which contains no honey at all is used. Any such person engaged in the rearing of queen bees shall have his or her queen rearing and queen mating apiary or apiaries inspected at least twice during each summer season by the commissioner of agriculture and on the discovery of the existence of any disease which is infectious or contagious in its nature and injurious to bees in their eggs, larval, pupal or adult stages, said person shall at once cease to ship queen bees from such diseased apiary until the commissioner of agriculture shall declare the said apiary free from disease. On complaint of Complaints. the commissioner of agriculture or of any five beekeepers in the state, that said beekeeper, 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 and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. be provided. SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of all persons engaged in bee- Movable keeping to provide movable frames in all hives used by them frames to to contain bees, and so far as practical to cause the bees in such hives to construct brood combs in such frames so that any of said frames may be removed from the hive without injuring other comb in such hive, and it shall further be the duty of such persons 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 Sealing of hives. To burn, etc., combs Exposing contami nated honey, etc., penalty for. at any other time, and to make the hive or hives tight in such manner that robber bees shall not find it possible to enter or leave such hives or obtain honey therefrom. 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. Failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of any one keeping bees in the and frames. state of Michigan, to burn and bury 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 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 and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court: Provided, That the wax may be rendered in such places or at such times that no bees will be able to gain access to the comb' before it is rendered, or at any time to the liquids expressed in the process of rendering. SEC. 10. All bees which may be brought into this state from other states or other countries must be accompanied by a certificate of health issued by the official inspector of the place from whence they came. The transportation of bees into this state without said certificate of health by a person, persons or common carrier shall be deemed a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution for each offense. Proviso. Certificate of health to accompany bees from other states. Inspection of combs, etc., etc. SEC. 11. No combs or used beekeepers' supplies or bees before sale, except in combless packages and with food not made with honey, shall be sold or offered for sale or removed from the county without being inspected by the commissioner of agriculture and a permit issued by him. Failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars and costs of prosecution for each offense, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. County apiary inspector, may appoint. SEC. 12. Boards of supervisors of the several counties shall have and are hereby given authority to appropriate such funds as they may deem sufficient for the inspection of apiaries in their counties. They shall have authority to appoint a county apiary inspector with the consent and concurrence of the commissioner of agriculture, said inspector to serve during the pleasure of said board of supervisors except as hereinafter specified. Said county apiary inspector shall be paid a per Compensadiem of five dollars for each day or two dollars and fifty cents tion of. for each half day of inspection work actually done, together with such expenses as may necessarily be incurred in the doing of the inspection work. However, before said board of supervisors shall approve said salary and expenses for payment the said inspector shall submit the same to the commissioner of agriculture for his approval. The said county in- Under direcspector of apiaries shall work under the direction of the com- missioner. missioner of agriculture and shall be responsible to him for the enforcement of the laws relative to the keeping of bees and treatment of disease. The commissioner of agriculture When apshall have the authority to terminate the appointment of the terminated. county apiary inspector upon submitting to the board of su pervisors a statement that said inspector has shown himself to be incompetent, inefficient or untrustworthy in the dis tion of com pointment charge of his duties. The said county apiary inspector shall Reports. furnish to the commissioner of agriculture such reports as shall be required and upon blanks furnished by him. A duplicate of such reports shall be presented to the board of supervisors at each time that a statement of salary and expense is presented for payment. etc., com point. SEC. 13. The commissioner of agriculture is hereby em- Assistants, powered to appoint such assistants and employes as may be missioner necessary to perform the duties hereby imposed, the number may apof such assistants and employes, and the compensation payable to all persons so appointed and employed, being subject to the approval of the state administrative board. SEC. 14. Act number two hundred sixty-five of the public Act acts of nineteen hundred twenty-three is hereby repealed. Approved April 23, 1927. repealed. [No. 61.] AN ACT to provide for the laying out and establishing of additional trunk line mileage. The People of the State of Michigan enact: trunk line SECTION 1. The state highway commissioner, subject to Additional the approval of the advisory board of the state highway highways. commissioner, and state administrative board, is hereby authorized and directed to lay out and establish not to exceed five hundred miles of additional trunk line highways on such |