308 THE MOSQUITOES OF NEW JERSEY 



2. It shall be the further duty of said director, in the manner above de- 

 scribed, to survey at the request of the board of health of any city, town, 

 township, borough or village within the state, to such extent as may be neces- 

 sary, any fresh-water swamp or other territory suspected of breeding ma- 

 larial or other mosquitoes, within the jurisdiction of such board, and he shall 

 prepare a map of such suspected area, locating upon it such mosquito breed- 

 ing places as may be discovered and shall report upon the same as hereinafter 

 provided in section 8 of this act. Requests as hereinafter provided for in 

 this section may be made by any board of health within the state, upon its 

 own motion, and must be made upon the petition, in writing, of ten or more 

 freeholders residing within the jurisdiction of any such board. 



3. Whenever, in the course of a survey made as prescribed in section 1 of 

 this act, it is found that within the limits of any city, town, township, borough 

 or village, there exist points or places where salt marsh mosquitoes breed, it 

 shall be the duty of the director aforesaid, through his executive officer, to 

 notify, in writing, by personal service upon some officer or member thereof, 

 the board of health within whose jurisdiction such breeding places or points 

 occur, of the extent and location of such breeding places, and such notice 

 shall be accompanied by a copy of a map prepared as prescribed in section 

 1, and of the memorandum stating the character of the work to be done and 

 its probable cost, also therein provided for. It shall thereupon become the 

 duty of the said board, within twenty days from the time at which notice is 

 served as aforesaid, to investigate the ownership, so far as ascertainable, of 

 the territory on which the breeding places occur, and to notify the owner or 

 owners of such lands, if they can be found or ascertained, in such manner as 

 other notices of such boards are served, of the facts set out in the communica- 

 tion from the director, and of the further fact that under chapter 68 of the 

 laws of 1887, as amended in chapter 119, of the laws of 1904, any water in 

 which mosquito larvae breed is a nuisance and subject to abatement as such. 

 Said notice shall further contain an order that the nuisance, consisting of 

 mosquito breeding pools, be abated within a period to be stated, and which 

 shall not be more than sixty days from the date of such notice, failing which 

 the board would proceed to abate, in accordance with the act and its amend- 

 ments above cited. 



4. In any case if any owner of salt marsh lands on which mosquito breed- 

 ing places occur and upon whom notice has been served as above set out, 

 fails or neglects to comply with the order of the board within the time limited 

 therein, it shall be the duty of said board to proceed to abate under the 

 powers given in section 1 3 and 1 4 of the act and its amendments cited in the 

 preceding section, or, in case this is deemed inexpedient, it shall certify to 

 the common council or other governing body of the city, town, township, 

 borough, or village, the facts that such an order has been made and that it 

 has not been complied with, and it shall request such council or other govern- 



