398 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMERICA 



fresh-water swamp or other territory suspected of breeding malarial or other 

 mosquitoes, within the jurisdiction of such board, and he shall prepare a map of 

 such suspected area, locating upon it such mosquito-breeding places as may be 

 discovered, and shall report upon the same as hereinafter provided in section 

 eight of this act. Requests as hereinbefore provided for in this section may be 

 made by any board of health within the State, upon its own motion, and must 

 be made upon the petition, in writing, of ten or more freeholders residing within 

 the jurisdiction of any such board. 



" 3. Whenever, in the course of a survey made as prescribed in section one of 

 this act, it is found that within the limits of any city, town, borough or village 

 there exist points or places where salt-marsh mosquitoes breed, it shall be the 

 duty of the director aforesaid, through his executive officer, to notify, in writing, 

 by personal service upon some officer, or member thereof, the board of health 

 within whose jurisdiction such breeding points or places occur, of the extent and 

 location of such breeding places, and such notice shall be accompanied by a copy 

 of the map prepared as prescribed in section one, and of the memorandum stating 

 the character of the work to be done and its probable cost, also therein provided 

 for. It shall thereupon become the duty of the said board, Avithin twenty days 

 from the time at which notice is served as aforesaid, to investigate the owner- 

 ship, so far as ascertainable, of the territory on which the breeding places occur, 

 and to notify the owner or owners of such lands, if they can be found or ascer- 

 tained, in such manner as other notices of such boards are served, of the facts set 

 out in the communication from the director, and of the further fact that, under 

 chapter sixty-eight of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, 

 as amended in chapter one hundred and nineteen of the laws of one thousand 

 nine hundred and four, any Avater in which mosquito larvas breed is a nuisance 

 and subject to abatement as such. Said notice shall further contain an order 

 that the nuisance, consisting of mosquito-breeding pools, be abated within a 

 period to be stated, and wliich shall not be more than sixty days from the date 

 of said notice, failing which the board would proceed to abate, in accordance 

 with the act and its amendments above cited. 



" 4. In case any owner of salt-marsh lands on which mosquito-breeding places 

 occur and upon whom notice has been served as above set out, fails or neglects 

 to comply with the order of the board wdthin the time limited therein, it shall 

 be the duty of said board to proceed to abate under the powers given in sections 

 thirteen and fourteen of the act and its amendments cited in the preceding 

 section, or, in case this is deemed inexpedient, it shall certify to the common 

 council or other governing body of the city, town, township, borough or village 

 the facts that such an order has been made and that it has not been complied 

 with, and it shall request such council or other governing body to provide the 

 money necessary to enable the board to abate such nuisance in the manner pro- 

 vided by law. It shall thereupon become the duty of such governing body to act 

 upon such certificate at its next meeting and to consider the appropriation of the 

 money necessary to abate the nuisance so certified. If it be decided that the 

 municipality has no money available for such purpose, such decision shall be 

 transmitted to the board of health making the certificate, which said board shall 

 thereupon communicate such decision forthwith to the director of the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station or his executive officer. 



" 5. If, in the judgment of the director aforesaid, public interests will be 

 served thereby, he may set aside out of the moneys appropriated by this act such 

 an amount as may be necessary to abate the nuisance found existing and to 

 abolish the mosqiuto-breeding places found in the municipality which has de- 

 clared itself without funds available as prescribed in the preceding section. 

 Notice that such an amount has been set aside as above described shall be given 



