EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 771

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That there are hereby added to Article 48 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, nine new sections to follow after
Section 74, of said Article and to be known as Sections 74a,
74b, 74c, 74d, 74e, 74f, 74g, 74h and 74i; said new sections
to read as follows:

74a. That the State Board of Agriculture, through its duly
authorized officer or agent, shall conduct such inspection of api-
aries, and such investigations and disseminate such informa-
tion as to it may seem best to promote the bee-keeping industry
in Maryland.

74b. No person shall keep a colony of bees affected with
the disease known as foul brood, black brood or any other
infectious or contagious disease harmful to honey bees in the
egg, larval, pupal or adult state, except as provided by Sec-
tion 74c of this Article; and every beekeeper, when he becomes
aware of the existence of such a disease among his bees, shall
at once notify the State Board of Agriculture, or its duly
authorized officer or agent of the existence of the same. Any
person who knowing that a contagious or infectious disease
exists among his bees, sells, barters or gives away, or in any
other way disposes of the same, in whole or in part, or any
product of the same, or any hive, super, frame, section or other
appliance used about the diseased bees, in such manner as to
cause the spread of the disease, shall, upon conviction before
a court or Justice of the Peace, be liable to penalties named
in Section 74g of this Article.

74c. The State Board of Agriculture, through its duly
authorized officer or agent, shall, upon the discovery of foul
brood, black brood or other infectious or contagious diseases,
send to the owner of the diseased bees an order in writing that
such bees shall be held in quarantine until such time as the
same are released by a written permit from said officer of
agent, and bees so placed in quarantine shall not be removed
from the premises of the owner under the penalties named in
Section 74g of this Article.

74d. Upon the discovery of a case of foul brood, black
brood or other infectious or contagious disease in any apiary
or colony, the State Board of Agriculture, through its duly
authorized officer or agent, shall give such instructions to the
owner or caretaker thereof, as to the treatment of the diseased
colonies, as may be necessary. If, upon subsequent inspection,
the disease is still found to exist in the apiary or colony, the