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been paid, may set aside, in a suit begun within three years from the 

 date thereof, a collector's sale made under an erroneous assessment, may 

 award costs to either party and may render such judgment as justice 

 and equity require. 



If, in the opinion of the assessors, the owner of an estate upon which 

 an assessment as aforesaid has been made is, by reason of age, infirmity 

 or poverty unable to pay the assessment, they may upon application 

 abate the same. Every city or town in rendering an account to the state 

 auditor as provided for in section four of this act shall deduct from such 

 amount as it has expended the total amount it has received for work 

 performed under section six of this act during the term covered by the 

 account : provided, such work was performed under such conditions as 

 require reimbursement in whole or in part by the state. 



SECTION 8. To meet the expenses incurred under authority of this act, 

 there shall be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Common- 

 wealth, during the period up to and including May first, nineteen 

 hundred and seven, the sum of three hundred thousand dollars. Of this 

 amount seventy-five thousand dollars may be expended during the cal- 

 endar year nineteen hundred and five; one hundred and fifty thousand 

 dollars, and any unexpended balance of the previous year, may be 

 expended during the calendar year nineteen hundred and six; and sev- 

 enty-five thousand dollars, and any unexpended balance of the previous 

 years, may be expended during the calendar year nineteen hundred and 

 seven, up to and including May first. 



SECTION 9. An additional sum of ten thousand dollars in each of the 

 years nineteen hundred and five, nineteen hundred and six and nineteen 

 hundred and seven may, in the discretion of the state superintendent, be 

 expended by him for experimenting with parasites or natural enemies 

 for destroying said moths, and any unexpended balance of any year may 

 be expended in the subsequent years. 



SECTION 10. Chapter two hundred and ten of the acts of the year 

 eighteen hundred and ninety-one and sections one and two of chapter five 

 hundred and forty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and 

 ninety-eight and section two of chapter fifty-seven of the acts of the year 

 nineteen hundred and two, are hereby repealed. 



SECTION 11. [As amended by section 6, chapter 268, Acts of 1906.] 

 A person who wilfully resists or obstructs the superintendent or an offi- 

 cial of a city or town, or a servant or agent duly employed by said 

 superintendent or by any of said officials, while lawfully engaged in the 

 execution of the purposes of this act, or who knowingly fails to comply 

 with any of the rules or regulations issued by said superintendent, shall 

 forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each offence. 



SECTION 12. Valuations of real and personal property of the year 

 nineteen hundred and four shall govern the provisions of this act. 



SECTION 13. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 

 May 8, 1905. 



