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Experiment Station or the person designated by him to carry out the pur- 

 poses of this act, stating that the work is satisfactory and effective for the 

 purpose intended, 



6. The sum of $2,500.00 is hereby appropriated to the Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station for the fiscal year ending October 31, 1905 and the sum of 

 $3,500.00 is hereby appropriated to said station for the fiscal year ending 

 October 31, 1906, to defray the cost of executing this law and of making such 

 investigations and experiments as may be necessary to carry out its intent 

 and purpose, and the further sum of $10,000.00, $4,000.00 to become avail- 

 able during the fiscal year ending October 31, 1905, and $6,000.00 for the 

 fiscal year ending October 31, 1906, or so much thereof as is needed, is 

 hereby appropriated to said station to be used in carrying out the provisions 

 for state aid. 



7. This act shall take effect immediately. 

 Approved March 31, 1905. 



Under the terms of this statute cooperation and state aid was to a 

 limited extent offered to local legal bodies. Not enough educational 

 effort had, however, been used to inform successfully the people of New 

 Jersey on the nature and worthwhileness of attacking this problem in 

 a practical way and the local response was correspondingly small. 



It seemed necessary to the workers in those days that the only way 

 to get action upon the discoveries brought forth in Dr. Smith's publica- 

 tion and to begin the freeing of the state from the mosquito pest lay 

 in the assumption of the work itself by the state through the agency of 

 its State Agricultural Experiment Station. Accordingly, Chapter 134, 

 Laws of 1906 was written into the statute books. The text of this 

 statute follows : 



CHAPTER 134, LAWS OF 1906 



An Act to provide for locating and abolishing mosquito-breeding salt 

 marsh areas, within the state, for assistance in dealing with certain inland 

 breeding places, and appropriating money to carry its provisions into effect. 



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

 Jersey: 



1. It shall be the duty of the Director of the State Experiment Station, 

 by himself or through an executive officer to be appointed by him to carry 

 out the provisions of this act, to survey or cause to be surveyed all the salt 

 marsh areas within the state, in such order as he may deem desirable, and 

 to such extent as he may deem necessary, and he shall prepare or cause to be 

 prepared a map of each section so surveyed, and shall indicate thereon all 

 the mosquito breeding places found on every such area, together with a 

 memorandum of the method to be adopted in dealing with such mosquito 

 breeding places, and the probable cost of abolishing the same. 



