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Limits to required Expenditure by Cities and Toiuns. 



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 a Basis. 



Wherever valuations of real and personal property are referred 

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

 tions of 1904 are meant. 



Wilful Resistance and Failure to comply with Rules. 

 A person who wilfully resists or obstructs any agent of the Com- 

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

 execution of the purposes of the act relative to suppressing the 

 moths, or who knowingly fails to comply with any of the rules or 

 regulations issued by the superintendent shall forfeit a sum not 

 exceeding $25 for each offence. 



PENALTY FOR TRANSPORTING MOTHS. 



[SEC. 108, CHAP. 208, REVISED LAWS.] 



Whoever knowingly brings the insects which are known as the 

 ocneria dispar or gypsy moth or as the brown-tail moth, or their 

 nests or eggs, into this commonwealth, or whoever knowingly 

 transports said insects or their eggs or nests from one city or town 

 to another city or town in the commonwealth, except when en- 

 gaged in, and for the purpose of, destroying them shall be pun- 

 ished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by 

 imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine 

 and imprisonment. 



[UNITED STATES STATUTES AT LARGE, VOL. 33, PART 1, CHAP. 1501. AN ACT 

 TO PROHIBIT IMPORTATION OR INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION OF INSECT PESTS 

 AND THE USE OF THE UNITED STATES MAILS FOR THAT PURPOSE.] 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 

 United States of America in Congress assembled, That no railroad, 

 steamboat, express, stage or other transportation company shall 



