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that time that local interest and effort should be incorporated and ac- 

 cordingly Chapter 80, Laws of 1905 was written in the statutes. The 

 text of this statute follows : 



CHAPTER 80, LAWS OF 1905 



An Act to provide a method for locating and destroying mosquito-breeding 

 areas, authorizing appropriations for said purposes and providing state 

 aid for freeing salt marsh areas from mosquitoes. 



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

 Jersey: 



1. It shall be lawful for the mayor, or executive officer, or the board of 

 health of any city, borough, incorporated town, village, or the government 

 body or board of health of any township or county to make request in writing 

 to the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station in this state, or to the 

 person appointed by said director for the purposes of this act, to investigate, 

 or cause to be investigated, the source of breeding places of mosquitoes which 

 may or do infest said city, borough, incorporated town, village, township or 

 county ; and it shall be the duty of such director, or the person appointed by 

 him, as soon as may be after such application is made, to innvestigate, or 

 cause to be investigated, the source or breeding places of such mosquitoes, 

 and he shall, as soon thereafter as possible, report to the officer or body mak- 

 ing such application the results of the investigation made, and also the 

 measures that should be adopted to destroy such breeding places or render 

 them free from future mosquito breeding. 



2. If such investigation shows that the sources or breeding places of the 

 mosquitoes complained of are wholly within the jurisdiction of the city, 

 borough, incorporated town, village, township or county from which the ap- 

 plication is made, a report shall be made to the officer or body requesting the 

 investigation, and if such request does not come from a board of health, a 

 copy shall also be forwarded to the board of health of such applying city, 

 borough, incorporated town, village, township or county, which report shall 

 specify in such detail as is possible such breeding places as may be abolished 

 by such board under the powers conferred upon it by the laws relating to 

 such board; if the investigation shows that the mosquitoes complained of 

 breed wholly or in part at a point or points without the jurisdiction of the 

 city, borough, incorporated town, village, township or county from which the 

 application is made, a copy of the report showing this result shall also be 

 sent to the board of boards of health in the jurisdiction or jurisdictions where 

 such breeding places are found, or if there be no organized board of health 

 in any such jurisdiction, then the copy shall be sent to the mayor or executive 

 officer of said city, borough, incorporated town, village, or the governing 

 body of such township or county; the copy of the report above provided for, 

 when sent to any officer, board of governing body or any jurisdiction other 

 than the one from which the request for the investigation originated, shall be 



