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cerning said moths; may devise, use and require all other lawful means 

 of suppressing or preventing said moths; may lease real estate when he 

 deems it necessary, and, with the approval of the board in charge, may 

 use any real or personal property of the Commonwealth ; may at all times 

 enter upon the land of the Commonwealth or of a municipality, corpo- 

 ration, or other owner or owners, and may use all reasonable means in 

 carrying out the purposes of this act ; and, in the undertakings afore- 

 said, 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 appropriations and donations. 



SECTION 4. [As amended by section 2, chapter 268, Acts of 1906.] 

 Cities and towns by such public officer or board as they shall designate 

 or appoint, shall, under the advice and general direction of said superin- 

 tendent, destroy the eggs, caterpillars, pupae 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 an 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 thou- 

 sand 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 dollars, 

 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 

 purpose 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 reim- 

 bursed by the Commonwealth every sixty days; but in the case of all 

 others the Commonwealth shall reimburse cities and towns annually 

 according to the provisions 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 

 ti'easury of the Commonwealth to cities or towns, pursuant to the pro- 



