Emergency.

Section 4. For the immediate preservation of the public health, peace and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 4, 1915.

CHAPTER 73.

APPROPRIATION-GRANITE REFORMATORY.

AN ACT to make an appropriation for the support and maintenance of the Oklahoma State Reformatory located at Granite, Oklahoma, for the fiscal year beginning July first, 1915, and ending June thirtieth, 1916, and for the fiscal year beginning July first, 1916, and ending June thirtieth, 1917, and for betterments, repairs and the operation of industries at said institution for said

years.

Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Appropriation-Maintenance.

Section 1. There is hereby appropriated out of the general revenue fund of the State of Oklahoma, not otherwise appropriated, for the support and maintenance of the Oklahoma State Reformatory located at Granite, Oklahoma, for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 1915, and ending June 30th, 1916, the sum of $107,295.00.

There is further appropriated out of the general revenue fund of the State of Oklahoma for the support and maintenance of the Oklahoma State Reformatory located at Granite, Oklahoma, for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 1916, and ending June 30th, 1917, the sum of $107,205.00. Appropriation-Industries-Repairs.

Section 2. There is further appropriated out of the general revenue fund of the State of Oklahoma, for betterments, repairs, and the operation of industries at the Oklahoma State Reformatory, located at Granite, Oklahoma, for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 1915, and ending June 30th, 1916, the sum of $21,610.00.

There is further appropriated out of the general fund of the State of Oklahoma, for betterments, repairs, and the operation of industries at the Oklahoma State Reformatory, located at Granite, Oklahoma, for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, 1916, and ending June 30th, 1917, the sum of $19,355.00.

Approved March 4, 1915.

CHAPTER 74.

RAILROADS-REGULATION OF PASSENGER TRAINS.

AN ACT to better regulate the operation of passenger and mixed trains doing an intrastate passenger business in the State of Oklahoma, and providing a penalty for violation of this act.

Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Intrastate Passenger Trains-County Seat Stops.

Section 1. Every company, corporation, lessee, manager or receiver owning or operating a railroad in this State or running into or through this State, upon which railroad, passenger or mixed trains are run, operated or used from conveying passengers from one point in this State to another point therein, for hire, shall stop each train, run operated or used for conveying passengers for hire, from one point in the State to another point therein, at the depot at or in each county seat in, by, or through which such train may run, for the purpose of receiving passengers desiring to ride on such trains, or delivering passengers to get off at such station. All trains engaged in intrastate passenger business shall be included in this act, and all trains engaged in interstate passenger business, only, shall not be included in this act.

Penalty.

Section 2. Any company, corporation, lessee or receiver owning or operating a railroad in this State, or running into or through this State, violating the provisions of

section 1 of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each offense, and each failure to stop any such train engaged in intrastate passenger business at any county seat for the purpose of receiving or discharging passengers shall be and will constitute a separate offense.

Approved March 4, 1915.

CHAPTER 75.

AGRICULTURE STATE VETERINARY.

AN ACT amending section 17 of article 1, chapter 2, Revised Laws of Oklahoma, 1910, defining the powers and duties of the State Board of Agriculture; providing for the employment of veterinary surgeons; and declaring an emergency.

Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma:

State Veterinary-Appointment-Malfeasance.

Section 1. Section seventeen (17) of article one (1) of chapter two (2), Revised Laws of Oklahoma of 1910, is hereby amended to read as follows:

There may be

"Section 17. (Veterinary Surgeons.) appointed by said board one veterinary surgeon, who shall be a graduate of some college of veterinary surgery recognized by the Federal Bureau of Animal Industry, and who shall receive a salary to be fixed by the board, not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per annum. The board shall also have authority, in the event of an epidemic of contagious or infectious disease among the live stock of the State, to employ, temporarily, such other graduate veterinary surgeons as may be necessary to safeguard the live stock industry of the State. If any veterinary surgeon, or inspector, shall be guilty of malfeasance, or neglect of duty

in office, he and his bondsmen shall be liable for all damages sustained by reason thereof."

Emergency.

Section 2. It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved March 4, 1915.

CHAPTER 76.

BEES DISEASES.

AN ACT relating to insects and diseases which are injurious to honey bees; providing for an entomologist and for the establishment and maintenance of quarantine regulations for the purpose of preventing the introduction and dissemination of said injurious diseases and insects and for the inspection of apiaries and regulations for the enforcement of the provisions, and for other

purposes.

Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma:

Apiary Inspector-Appointment-Powers.

Section 1. That the Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture is hereby authorized to establish a division of apiary inspection in the Oklahoma Department of Entomology at the State A. & M. College, and to appoint a competent entomologist as the chief inspector of said division, and the necessary assistants, who shall, under the direction of the board, have charge of the inspection of apiaries as hereinbefore provided; he may investigate or cause to be investigated apiaries as hereafter provided; he may investigate or cause to be investigated outbreaks of bee diseases or insect enemies of bees, and cause suitable measures to be taken for their eradication or control.

Duties.

Section 2. The inspector or his assistants shall, when

notified in writing by the owner of an apiary, or any three taxpayers, examine all reported apiaries, and all 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 eggs, larval, pupal or adult stages exists in such apiaries, and if satisfied of the existence of any such disease he shall give the owner or the caretakers of the diseased apiaries full instructions how to treat such cases, as in the inspector's judgment seemed best.

Prevention-Destruction of Colonies.

Section 3. The inspector or his assistants may visit all diseased apiaries a second time, after ten days, and, if need be, burn all colonies of bees that he finds not cured of such disease, and all honey and appliances which would spread disease, without recompense to the owner, lessee, or agent thereof.

Penalty of Spread of Disease.

Section 4. If the owner of any apiary, honey, or appliances wherein disease exists shall sell, barter, or give away, or move without the consent of the inspector any diseased bees (be they queen or workers), colonies, honey or appliances, or expose other bees to the danger of such disease, said owner shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not less than one month nor more than two months, or both.

Power of Visitation-Resistance.

Section 5. For the enforcement of the provisions of this act, the State Inspector of Apiaries or his duly authorized assistants shall have access, ingress and egress to all apiaries or places where bees are kept; and any person or persons who shall resist, impede or hinder in any way, the inspector of apiaries or his duly authorized assistants in the discharge of his duties under the provisions of this act,