LAWS RELATING TO MOSQUITO CONTROL 315 



Act to amend an act entitled 'An act to provide for locating and abolishing 

 mosquito breeding salt marsh, fresh water swamps and flooded areas within 

 the State, for assistance in dealing with mosquito breeding places, and ap- 

 propriating money to carry its provisions into effect.' " 



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 

 and all the fresh-water swamps, or flooded areas within the State, in such 

 order as he may deem desirable, and to such extent as he may deem neces- 

 sary, and he shall prepare or cause to be prepared a map of each section so 

 surveyed, and shall indicate all the mosquito breeding places found on every 

 such area together with a memorandum of the method to be adopted in deal- 

 ing with such mosquito breeding places, and the probable cost of abolishing 

 the same. 



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, village or county mosquito extermination conamission, 

 within the State to such extent as may be necessary, any fresh-water swamp, 

 salt marsh or other territory suspected of breeding malarial or other mos- 

 quitoes, within the jurisdiction of such board or commission, and he shall 

 prepare a map of such suspected area, locating upon it such nuisance in the 

 manner provided be discovered, and shall report upon the same as herein- 

 after provided in section eight of this act. Requests as hereinbefore 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 one 

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

 ough, village or county there exist points or places where salt-marsh or fresh 

 water mosquitoes breed, it shall be the duty of the director aforesaid, through 

 his executive officer, to notify in writing, by personal service upon such officer 

 or member thereof, the board of health or the mosquito extermination com- 

 mission of the county within whose jurisdiction such breeding points or 

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

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

 section one, and of the memorandum stating the character of the work to be 

 done and its probable cost, also therein provided for. It shall thereupon be- 

 come the duty of the said board, or of said county mosquito commission, 

 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 communication from the director, 

 and of the further fact that, under Chapter sixty-eight of the Laws of one 



