Idem.

SEC. 3. Upon any tract selected as a private forest reservation which is partially stocked with forest trees, the owner may plant a sufficient number of forest trees to assure a spacing of approximately six by six feet on the open areas, when the same shall become subject to this act as in section two. SEC. 4. No land owner shall receive the benefit of this act pasture upon. Who shall permit cattle, horses, sheep, hogs or goats to pasture upon such reservation until at least ninety per cent of the trees are two inches in diameter, and then only under such rules and regulations as may be made by the State Board of Agriculture.

Cattle, etc., when may

How maintained.

Restocking.

What con

trees.

SEC. 5. The forest reservation shall at all times be kept fully stocked with forest trees under such rules and regulations as may be made from time to time by the State Board of Agriculture, and shall at all times be maintained as a woodlot.

SEC. 6. Whenever any trees are removed from such private forest reservation, provision shall be made for complete restocking with forest trees under such rules and regulations as may be made by the State Board of Agriculture.

SEC. 7. The varieties of ash, hemlock, beech, maple, pine, sidered forest oak, hickory, basswood, elm, locust, walnut, butternut, ironwood, cedar, larch, tulip-tree, mulberry, osage orange, sassafras, catalpa and such other trees as the State Board of Agriculture may recommend shall be considered forest trees within the meaning of this act.

Record of reservations.

Idem.

Application, form of.

Supervisor, etc., to examine.

SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of each county to keep a record of all private forest reservations within such county as the same may be selected by the owner or owners thereof under this act; and said treasurer shall, on or before the first Monday in April in each year, certify to the supervisor or assessor of each township a description of the selected private forest reservations therein, and the name of the owner or owners thereof.

SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the supervisor or assessor in each township to keep a record of all private forest reservations within his township as certified to him by the treasurer of said county, and he shall require the owner or his agent to subscribe under oath the extent and description of the land selected as private forest reservation and that the number of trees is as required by this act and that he will maintain the same according to the intent of this act.

SEC. 10. The said Board of Agriculture shall also prescribe the form of application and contract to be filed with the treasurer of the county wherein such application shall be made, and form of notice by treasurer to supervisor or other assessing officer.

SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the supervisor or assessor to personally examine the various private reservations when the real estate is assessed for taxation, and to note upon his return, the condition of the trees, and that same are properly

planted and continuously cared for, in order that the intent of this act may be complied with. If the said private reservation is properly planted and continuously cared for in accordance with the provisions of this act, such part of its value as is over and above one dollar per acre shall be exempt from all taxation: Provided, When any Proviso. owner of a forest reservation provided for in this act shall desire to cut and harvest trees in said reservation, except for firewood or building material for the domestic use of said owner or his tenant, he shall notify the tax assessor of his district of his said intention and after such trees are cut, and before their removal from the land, the owner shall make an accurate measurement or count of all the trees cut, and file with the assessor a true and accurate return of such measurement or count and of the variety and value of the trees so cut. The assessor shall forthwith assess the stumpage value of the tim ber so cut and shall issue a license to remove said timber, which license shall be in effect upon payment to the collector of taxes of the district of a fee of five per cent of such appraised valuation. The assessor shall notify the clerk and the tax collector of his district of the issuance of such license. If any such timber is removed without payment of such li cense fee, it shall be the duty of the tax collector to levy upon such timber for collection of such license fee in the manner provided by law for collection of personal taxes. If the owner of any such forest reservation desires at any time to withdraw his land from such classification, or fails to comply with the provisions of this act, the tax assessor of his district shall estimate the cash value of the timber on the stump and the owner shall pay a fee of five per cent of such appraised valuation; and, on his refusal or neglect to make such payment, the tax collector shall levy upon such timber for collection in such fee in the manner provided by law for the collection of personal taxes.

SEC. 12. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved April 17, 1917.

Sections amended.

Aplary inspection.

Access to apiaries.

[No. 87.]

AN ACT to amend sections one, five, eight, ten and twelve of act number two hundred of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "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 sixty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred one, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," being sections seven thousand three hundred fifty-three, seven thousand three hundred fifty-seven, seven thousand three hundred sixty, seven thousand three hundred sixty-two and seven thousand three hundred sixty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Sections one, five, eight, ten and twelve of act number two hundred of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "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 sixty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred one, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," being sections seven thousand three hundred fiftythree, seven thousand three hundred fifty-seven, seven thousand three hundred sixty, seven thousand three hundred sixtytwo and seven thousand three hundred sixty-four of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 1. The State Board of Agriculture is hereby authorized to establish apiary inspection, and to appoint a competent person as chief inspector and deputy inspectors, who shall under the direction of said board, have charge of the inspection of apiaries as hereinafter provided. Said inspector or deputy inspectors shall investigate or cause to be investigated outbreaks of bee diseases, and cause suitable measures to be taken of their eradication or control.

SEC. 5. For the enforcement of the provisions of this act, the State Inspector of Apiaries and his deputies shall have access, ingress and egress to and from all apiaries or places where bees, combs or apiary appliances are kept; and any person or persons who shall resist, impede or hinder in any way the Inspector of Apiaries or his deputies in the discharge of their duties under the provisions of this act 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 be imprisoned in the county jail not less

than ten days nor more than thirty days, or both at the discretion of the judge.

movable

SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of all persons engaged in To provide bee keeping to provide movable frames in all hives used frames in by them to contain bees, and so far as practical to cause hives. 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 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 more than twenty-five dollars for each offense.

into state.

SEC. 10. All bees which may be brought into this State Bees brought 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 by the consignee to the State Inspector of Apiaries. Such bees shall not be removed from the premises owned or controlled by the consignee until permission to so remove them is given by the State Inspector of Apiaries. Any violation of this section shall be deemed a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof be punishable by a fine of not less than one dollar for each offense.

tion.

SEC. 12. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions Appropriaof this act, there is hereby appropriated out of the moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and all moneys appropriated under this act, or so much thereof as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, shall be expended by the Inspector of Apiaries under the direction of the State Board of Agriculture, and the same shall be drawn from the treasury upon presentation of proper certificates of said board to the Auditor General, and his warrant to the State Treasurer. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved April 17, 1917.

Dimensions.

Proviso, different forms.

Cranberries.

Unlawful to sell, etc., barrel of less capacity.

Proviso, foreign countries.

Variations.

Proviso.

[No. 88.]

AN ACT to fix the standard barrel for fruits, vegetables, and other dry commodities.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The standard barrel for fruits, vegetables, and other dry commodities other than cranberries shall be of the following dimensions when measured without distention of its parts: length of staves, twenty-eight and one-half inches; diameter of heads, seventeen and one-eighth inches; distance between heads, twenty-six inches; circumference of bulge, sixty-four inches, outside measurement; and the thickness of staves not greater than four-tenths of an inch: Provided, That any barrel of a different form having a capacity of seven thousand fifty-six cubic inches shall be a standard barrel. The standard barrel for cranberries shall be of the following dimensions when measured without distention of its parts: length of staves, twenty-eight and onehalf inches; diameter of heads, sixteen and one-fourth inches; distance between heads, twenty-five and one fourth inches; circumference of bulge, fifty-eight and one-half inches, outside measurement; and the thickness of staves not greater than four-tenths of an inch.

SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful to sell, offer, or expose for sale in this State, or to ship from this State, to any other state, territory, or the District of Columbia or to a foreign country, a barrel containing fruits or vegetables or any other dry commodity of less capacity than the standard barrels defined in the first section of this act, or subdivisions thereof known as the third, half, and three quarter barrel, and any person guilty of a wilful violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, in any court of this State having jurisdiction: Provided, however, That no barrel shall be deemed below standard within the meaning of this act when shipped to any foreign country and constructed according to the specifications or directions of the foreign purchaser if not constructed in conflict with the laws of the foreign country to which the same is intended to be shipped.

SEC. 3. Reasonable variations shall be permitted and tolerance established by rules and regulations made by the director of the bureau of standards and approved by the Secretary of Commerce. Prosecutions for offenses under this act may be begun upon complaint of local sealers of weights and measures or other officer of the State appointed to en-. force the laws of the said State, relating to weights and measures: Provided, however, That nothing in this act shall