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the Commonwealth ; may at all times enter upon the land of the Common- 

 wealth or of a municipality, corporation, or other owner or owners, and 

 may use all reasonable means in carrying out the purposes of this act ; 

 and, in the undertakings aforesaid, may, in accordance with the provisions 

 of this act, expend the funds appropriated or donated therefor ; but no 

 expenditure shall be made or liability incurred in excess of such appro- 

 priations and donations. 



SECTION 4. Cities and towns by such public officer or board as they 

 shall designate or appoint, shall, under the advice and general direction of 

 said superintendent, destroy the eggs, pupie and nests of the gypsy and 

 brown tail moths within their limits, except in parks and other property 

 under the control of the Commonwealth, and except in private property, 

 save as otherwise provided herein. When any city or town shall have 

 expended within its limits city or town funds to au amount in excess of 

 five thousand dollars in any one calendar year, in suppressing gypsy or 

 brown tail moths, the Commonwealth shall reimburse such city or town 

 to the extent of fifty per cent of such excess above said five thousand 

 dollars. 



Cities or towns, where one twenty-fifth of one per cent of the assessed 

 valuation of real and personal property is less than five thousand dollar-, 

 and where the assessed valuation of real and personal property is greater 

 than six million dollars, shall be reimbursed by the Commonwealth to the 

 extent of eighty per cent of the amount expended by such cities or towns 

 of city or town funds in suppressing the gypsy and brown tail moths in 

 any one calendar year, in excess of said one twenty -fifth of one per cent. 



In the case of towns where the assessed valuation of real and personal 

 property is less than six million dollars, after they have expended in any 

 one calendar year town funds to an amount equal to one twenty-fifth of 

 one per cent of their assessed valuation of real and personal property, the 

 Commonwealth shall expend within the limits of such towns, for the pur- 

 pose of suppressing the gypsy and brown tail moths, such an amount in 

 addition as the superintendent with the advice and consent of the governor 

 shall recommend. Disbursements made by said last named towns in excess 

 of said one twenty-fifth of one per cent shall be reimbursed by the Com- 

 monwealth every sixty days ; but in the case of all others the Common- 

 wealth shall reimburse cities and towns annually according to the pro- 

 visions of this act. 



No city or town shall be entitled to any reimbursement from the Com- 

 monwealth until it has submitted to the auditor of the Commonwealth 

 itemized accounts and vouchers showing the definite amount expended by 

 it for the purpose of this act; nor shall any money.be paid out of the 

 treasury of the Commonwealth to cities or towns, pursuant to the provi- 

 sions of this act, until said vouchers and accounts have been approved by 

 the auditor of the Commonwealth. 



For the purposes of this section the years nineteen hundred and five and 

 nineteen hundred and seven shall be considered half years, and the valua- 

 tion for the year nineteen hundred and four shall be taken as a basis. 



