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LAWS RELATING TO MOSQUITO 

 CONTROL 



THE FIRST LEGAL ENACTMENT was known as Chapter 98, Laws of 

 1902, under the terms of which the New Jersey Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station was charged with the duty of making a study and re- 

 porting on the nature of the mosquito problem of this state. The text 

 of this act follows : 



CHAPTER 98, LAWS OF 1902 



An act to provide for an investigation and report by the New Jersey Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station upon the mosquito problem in its relation to the 

 sanitary, agricultural, and other interests of the state. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New 

 Jersey: 



1. The New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station be and the same is 

 hereby empowered and directed to investigate and report upon the mos- 

 quitoes occurring within the state, their habits, life history, breeding places, 

 relation to malarial, and other diseases, the injury caused by them to the 

 agricultural, sanitary, and other interests of the state, their natural enemies, 

 and the best methods of lessening, controlling or otherwise diminishing the 

 numbers, injury or detrimental effect upon the agricultural, sanitary, and 

 other interests of the state. 



2. The sum of $10,000 is hereby appropriated to the New Jersey Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station to be applied to and expended for the purpose 

 mentioned in section 1 of this act; such expenditures to be made and ac- 

 counted for in the same manner as are the other moneys appropriated to said 

 station. 



3. This act shall take effect immediately. 

 Approved April 3, 1902. 



Under the terms of Chapter 98, Laws of 1902, Dr. John B. Smith 

 prepared and published his monumental work on "The Mosquitoes 

 Occurring within the State, Their Habits, Life History, etc." 



With the publication of this report the question of how to apply 



these findings arose but it was evidently the feeling of the workers at 



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