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ing body to provide the money necessary to enable the board to abate such 

 nuisance, in the manner provided by law. It shall thereupon become the 

 duty of such governing body to act upon such certificate at its next meeting 

 and to consider the appropriation of the money necessary to abate the nui- 

 sance so certified. If it be decided that the municipality has no money avail- 

 able for such purpose, such decision shall be transmitted to the board of 

 health making the certificate, which said board shall thereupon communicate 

 such decision forthwith to the director of the Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion or his executive officer, 



5. If, in the judgment of the director aforesaid, public interests, will be 

 served thereby, he may set aside out of the moneys appropriated by this act 

 such an amount as may be necessary to abate the nuisance found existing 

 and to abolish the mosquito breeding places found in the municipality which 

 has declared itself without funds available as prescribed in the preceding 

 section. Notice that such amount has been set aside as above described shall 

 be given to the board of health within whose jurisdiction such mosquito 

 breeding places are situated, and said board shall thereupon appoint some 

 person designated by said director or his executive officer a special inspector 

 of said board for the sole purpose of acting in his behalf in abating the nui- 

 sance found to be existing, and all acts and work done to abate such nuisances 

 and to abolish such breeding places shall be done in the name of and on be- 

 half of such board of health. 



6. If, in the proceeding taken under section 4 of this act, the common 

 council or other governing body of any municipality appropriate to the ex- 

 tent of fifty per centum or more of the money required to abate the nuisance 

 and to abolish the mosquito breeding places within its jurisdiction, it shall 

 become the duty of said director of the Agricultural Experiment Station to 

 set aside out of the moneys herein appropriated such sum as may be neces- 

 sary to complete the work, and in all cases preference shall be given, in the 

 assignment of moneys herein appropriated, to those municipalities that con- 

 tribute to the work and in the order of the percentage which they contribute; 

 those contributing the highest percentage to be in all cases preferred in 

 order. 



7. In all cases where a municipality contributes fifty per centum or more 

 of the estimated cost of abolishing the breeding places for salt marsh mos- 

 quitoes within its jurisdiction, the work may be done by the municipality as 

 other work is done under its direction, and the amount set aside as provided 

 in section 6 may be paid to the treasurer or other disbursing officer of such 

 municipality for use in completing work; but no payment shall be made to 

 such treasurer or other disbursing officer until the amount appropriated by 

 the municipality has been actually expended, nor until a certificate has been 

 filed by the director of his executive officer stating that the work already done 

 is satisfactory and sufficient to obtain the desired result, and that the arrange- 



