2,; Till-: HKoWA-rAlI^ MOTH. 



llmt tinu.. Ou Miiv -21 it was l.rought to the attention of 

 tlu- l>.-ishitun- »>v sprcial HK-ssuge from Govornor Wolcott. 

 Thf nitttti-r wa.> wknx'd to the airricultuiul committee, and 

 ,.n .hine A that committee, throngh Representative W. H. 

 Purler of Ainiuam, reported a hill placing the work of de- 

 stroying the brown-tail moth in the hands of the gypsy 

 .uot'h eonnnittee, and appropriating $<;,000 for the needs 

 uf the work. On .lune S the ways and means committee 

 n.porled udvcrstlv on the bill. Later in the session a bill 

 pn rented by C'ol.AhH'rt Clarke of AVellesley, and requiring 

 I.K-al authorities to suppress the moth, was passed to be en- 

 acted, and is j)rcsented in full below : — 



(Chapter 516, Acts of 1897.] 

 An Act to rkqlike local autugrities to suppress the brown 



TAIL MOTU. 

 Jif it imi'-ltit, ftr., us jolliitrs : 



Skction 1. Wlieiiever the pest known as the brown tail moth 

 hhull b« discovercl in any eity or town of tht Commonwealtli it 

 hIiuU he the lUity of the city or town governmont to take imrne- 

 iliaU- st*.'ps for its extinetion and to prevent its spread. If they 

 are in doubt what the pest is, they shall notify the Itoard of agi'i- 

 niUurt', ami wluMievcr they are inforniod by said board that such 

 pi'hl I'xists witliiii tht'ir respective munieii)alities they sliall at once 

 t-ntcT upon the work of its confinement to the infested area and its 

 HUppression. 



Skction •_'. It sliall be the (hity of the board of agriculture to 

 cauHc inspections to be made upon the receipt of notice from local 

 aulliorilii'H, and also whenever the board lias reason to suspect 

 the pn-sence of this pest in any city or town, and to furnish the 

 liK-al uiithorilies an ample supjily of printed directions as to the 

 liChl niellioiiti for its eonfinement and extinction. 



Kiu:noN 3. It shall be the duty of the owners and managers of 

 preiiii»ieH iufesti-'d by this ntoth to exert themselves persistently to 

 cvinfine and wuppress it, under the direction of local and state 

 auth<>ritie«, and to pDomptly report any spreuil of the pest which 

 tiifV uiay «liscover. 



Skition 1. .Mayors and aidi-rnien of eities and sek;ctuien of 

 t<iwiiM who Hhall ii»>j>;leet or refuse to eomply witli tlie requireuients 

 of tiiiH act Hhall, on infornuition or ronqilaiiit of the district attor- 

 ney or on iudictinent by the t;raiid Jiirv, and on conviction of such 

 neglect or refuhul, be lined ten dollars each for every day of 



