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If the owner or owners shall fail to destroy such eggs, caterpillars, 

 pupae or nests in accordance with the requirements of the said notice, 

 then the city or town, acting by the public officer or board of such city or 

 town designated or appointed as aforesaid, shall, subject to the approval 

 of the said superintendent, destroy the same, and the amount actually 

 expended thereon, not exceeding one half of one per cent of the assessed 

 valuation of said lands, as heretofore specified in this section, shall be 

 assessed upon the said lands ; and such an amount in addition as shall be 

 required shall be apportioned between the city or town and the Common- 

 wealth in accordance with the provisions of section four of this act. The 

 amounts to be assessed upon private estates as herein provided shall be 

 assessed and collected, and shall be a lien on said estates, in the same 

 manner and with the same effect as is provided in the case of assessments 

 for street watering. 



SECTION 7. [As amended by section 5, chapter 268, Acts of 1906.] 

 If, in the opinion of the assessors of a city or town, any land therein has 

 received, by reason of the abatement of said nuisances thereon by said 

 superintendent or by said city or town, a special benefit beyond the gen- 

 eral advantage to all land in the city or town, then the said assessors 

 shall determine the value of such special benefit and shall assess the 

 amount thereof upon said land : provided, that no such assessment on 

 lands contiguous and held under one ownership shall exceed one half of 

 one per cent of the assessed valuation of said lands; and provided, that 

 the owner or owners shall have deducted from such assessment the 

 amount paid and expended by them during the twelve months last pre- 

 ceding the date of such assessment toward abating the said nuisances on 

 said lands, if, in the opinion of the assessors, such amount has been 

 expended in good faith. Such assessment shall be a lien upon the land 

 for three years from the first day of January next after the assessment 

 has been made, and shall be collected under a warrant of the assessors 

 to the collector of taxes of such city or town, in the manner and upon the 

 terms and conditions and in the exercise of the powers and duties, so far 

 as they may be applicable, prescribed by chapter thirteen of the Revised 

 Laws relative to the collection of taxes. 



Real estate sold hereunder may be redeemed within the time, in the 

 manner, and under the provisions of law, so far as they may be appli- 

 cable, set forth in chapter thirteen of the Revised Laws for the redemp- 

 tion of land sold for taxes. 



A person aggrieved by such assessment may appeal to the superior 

 court for the county in which the land lies, by entering a complaint in 

 said court within thirty days after he has had actual notice of the assess- 

 ment, which complaint shall be determined as other causes by the court 

 without a jury. The complaint shall be heard at the first sitting of said 

 court for trials without a jury after its entry; but the court may allow 

 further time, or may advance the case for speedy trial, or may appoint 

 an auditor as in other cases. The court may revise the assessment, may 

 allow the recovery back of an amount wrongfully assessed which has 



