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Reimbursements to Cities and Towns. 



1. Cities and towns with valuation of real and personal estate 

 of $12,500,000 or more, having spent $5,000 in any one calendar 

 year, shall be reimbursed annually 50 per cent (one-half) of all 

 further expenditure. 



2. Cities and towns, with valuation less than $12,500,000 and 

 more than $6,000,000, having spent an amount equal to oiie- 

 twenty-fifth of one per cent of such valuation in one year, shall 

 be reimbursed annually 80 per cent (four-fifths) of all further 

 expenditure. 



3. Towns with valuation less than $6,000,000, having spent an 

 amount equal to oiie-twenty-fifth of one per cent of such valua- 

 tion in one year, shall be reimbursed once in sixty days for all 

 further expenditure. 



Suppression by the Commonwealth. 



After any town of less than $6,000,000 valuation has expended 

 in suppressing the gypsy and brown-tail moths an amount equal to 

 one-twenty-fifth of one per cent of its real and personal valuation, 

 then the Commonwealth shall expend within such town such 

 additional sum for suppression as the superintendent, with the 

 advice and consent of the Governor, in such case shall recommend. 



Limits to required Expenditure by dtir* and Towns. 



No city or town with an assessed real and personal valuation of 

 more than $6,000,000 shall be required to expend in the suppres- 

 sion of the moths, during any one full year, more than one-fifteenth 

 of one per cent of such valuation. No town with an assessed real 

 and personal valuation of less than $6,000,000 shall be required 

 to thus expend during any one full year more than one-twenty-fifth 

 of one per cent of such valuation. 



Valuations of 1904 taken as Basis. 



Wherever valuations of real and personal property are referred 

 to in the gypsy and brown-tail moth suppression law, the valuations 

 of 1004 are meant. 



Wilful Resistance or Obstruction. 



Wilful resistance to or obstruction of any agent of the Com- 

 monwealth or of any city or town, while lawfully engaged in the 

 execution of the purposes of the moth-suppression law, is forbid- 

 den under penalty. 



