312 THE MOSQUITOES OF NEW JERSEY 



subscribe an oath or affirmation before the clerk of the county in and for 

 which he is appointed, to faithfully and impartially perform the duties of 

 his office, which oath or affirmation shall be filed with the clerk of the county 

 wherein the commission of which he is a member is appointed; every such 

 commission shall annually choose from among its members a president and 

 treasurer, and appoint a clerk or secretary and such other officers and 

 employees as it may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this act; 

 it may also determine the duties and compensation of such employees and 

 make all rules and regulations respecting the same. It shall be duty of the 

 board of chosen freeholders in each county to provide such commission with 

 a suitable office where its maps, plans, documents, records and accounts shall 

 be kept, subject to public inspection at such times and under such reasonable 

 regulations as the commission may determine. 



2. The director of the State Experiment Station shall be a member ex 

 officio of each commission and shall cooperate with them for the effective 

 carrying out of their plans and work. The said directory shall serve without 

 compensation, except that the necessary expenses actually incurred by him 

 in the attendance of meetings of said commissions shall be allowed and paid. 

 He shall furnish the said commissions with such surveys, maps; information 

 and advice as they may require for the prosecution of their work or, as in 

 his opinion, will be of advantage in connection therewith. 



3. Every such commission shall have the power to eliminate all breeding 

 places of mosquitoes within the county wherein it is appointed, and to do 

 and perform all acts and to carry out all plans which in their opinion and 

 judgment may be necessary or proper for the elimination of breeding places 

 of mosquitoes or which will tend to exterminate mosquitoes within said 

 county. 



4. Said commission shall, on or before the first day of April in each and 

 every year, file, with the director of the State Experiment Station a detailed 

 estimate of the moneys required for the ensuing year, and a plan of the work 

 to be done and the methods to be employed. The said director shall have the 

 power to approve, modify or alter the said estimates, plans and methods, and 

 the estimates, plans and methods finally approved by him shall be by him 

 forwarded to the board of chosen freeholders in each county on or before the 

 first day of May following its receipt. 



5. It shall be the duty of the board of chosen freeholders of each county, 

 or other body having control of the finances thereof, to include the amount of 

 money approved by the director of the State Experiment Station, annually 

 in the tax levy ; provided, however, that in no year shall the amount so raised 

 exceed the amount hereinafter specified, to wit, in counties where the assessed 

 valuations are not more than $25,000,000.00, a sum not greater than one mill 

 on every dollar of assessed valuation; in counties where the assessed valua- 

 tions are not more than $50,000,000.00, a sum not more than one-quarter of 

 one mill on every dollar of assessed valuations. 



