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map a careful description of the work required, and 

 report the same to the Board of Supervisors. All 

 objections to this report or any portion of it were then 

 to be filed in writing with the county clerk, and at the 

 next regular meeting of the Board these objections 

 were to be heard and sustained or rejected or modified 

 according to the judgment of the Board. 



Certified copies of the report, assessment roll, and 

 map were then to be filed with the tax collector, the 

 taxes were then to be payable, and work to proceed 

 as funds became available. 



The State of New Jersey enacted effective legisla- 

 tion against the mosquito in 1906. The act reads in 

 part viz. : "An Act to provide for locating and 

 abolishing mosquito-breeding salt marsh areas within 

 the State, assistance in dealing with certain inland 

 breeding places, and appropriating money to carry 

 its provisions into effect" and "For the purpose of 

 carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the said 

 Director of the State Agricultural Experiment Station 

 shall have power to spend such amount of money 

 annually, as may be appropriated by the legislature, 

 provided that the aggregate sum appropriated for the 

 purpose of this act shall not exceed three hundred and 

 fifty thousand dollars." 



The first sound county legislation in the State of 

 California has been enacted by the County of Tehama 

 and reads as follows : Ordinance No. 46. 



An ordinance to exterminate the mosquito larva. 



