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

 by the superintendent and 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 

 valuation for the year nineteen hundred and four shall be taken as a 

 basis. 



SECTION 5. [As amended by section 3, chapter 268, Acts of 1906.] 

 When, in the opinion of the superintendent, any city or town is not 

 expending a sufficient amount for the abatement of said nuisance, or is 

 not conducting 1 the necessary work in a proper manner, then the super- 

 intendent shall, with the advice and consent of the governor, order such 

 city or town to expend such an amount as the superintendent shall deem 

 necessary, and in accordance with such methods as the superintendent, 

 with the consent of the governor, shall prescribe : provided, that no city 

 or town where the assessed valuation of real and personal property ex- 

 ceeds six million dollars shall be required to expend, exclusive of any 

 reimbursement received from the Commonwealth, during any one full 

 year more than one fifteenth of one per cent of such valuation, and that 

 no town where the assessed valuation of real and personal property is 

 less than six million dollars shall be required to expend, exclusive of any 

 reimbursement received from the Commonwealth, during any one full 

 year more than one twenty-fifth of one per cent of such valuation. For 

 the purposes of this section the valuation of the year nineteen hundred 

 and four shall be used. 



Any city or town failing to comply with the directions of the said 

 superintendent in the performance of said work within the date specified 

 by him shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars a day for failure so to do ; 

 said fine to be collected by information brought by the attorney-general 

 in the supreme judicial court for Suffolk county. 



SECTION 6. [As amended by section 4, chapter 268, Acts of 1906.] 

 The mayor of every city and the selectmen of every town shall, on or 

 before the first day of November in each year, and at such other times as 

 he or they shall see fit, or as the state superintendent may order : ause a 

 notice to be sent to the owner or owners, so far as can be ascertained, of 

 every parcel of land therein which is infested with said moths ; or, if such 

 notification appears to be impracticable, then by posting such notice on 

 said parcels of land, requiring that the eggs, caterpillars, pupa? and nests 

 of said moths shall be destroyed within a time specified in the notice. 



When, in the opinion of the mayor or selectmen, the cost of destroying 

 such eggs, caterpillars, pupae and nests on lands contiguous and held 

 under one ownership in a city or town shall exceed one half of one per 

 cent of the assessed value of said lands, then a part of said premises on 

 which said eggs, caterpillars, pupa? or nests shall be destroyed may be 

 designated in such notice, and such requirement shall not apply to the 

 remainder of said premises. The mayor or selectmen may designate the 

 manner in which such work shall be done, but all work done under this 

 section shall be subject to the approval of the state superintendent. 



