316 THE MOSQUITOES OF NEW JERSEY 



thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, as amended in Chapter one hun- 

 dred and nineteen of the Laws of one thousand nine hundred and four, 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, consist- 

 ing 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 said notice, failing 

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

 amendments above cited. 



4. In case any owner of lands on which mosquito-breeding 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 or said county mosquito extermination commission to 

 proceed to abate, under the powers given in sections thirteen and fourteen of 

 the act and its amendments cited in the preceding section, or under the 

 powers given in the act, such nuisance in the manner provided by law. 



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

 served thereby, he may set aside out of the moneys appropriated for the pur- 

 poses of carrying out this act such an amount or amounts as may be necessary 

 to abate such nuisance found existing, and to abolish the mosquito breeding 

 places found in any municipality. 



6. It shall be the duty of the said director to cause to be carried on such 

 investigation of mosquito life history, habits and control as will, in his judg- 

 ment, furnish information necessary to the successful carrying on of mos- 

 quito extermination by any agency within the State. 



7. It shall also be the duty of the said director to cause to be carried on, 

 by such means as he may deem best, the spread of information concerning 

 the nature and results of mosquito extermination among the people of the 

 State. 



8. The mosquito extermination commission of each county shall have all 

 the powers of local boards of health as conferred by Chapter one hundred 

 and nineteen. Laws of one thousand nine hundred and four, and the amend- 

 ments thereto as now in force insofar as the same pertain to mosquito breed- 

 ing nuisances artificially created and water in which mosquito larvae breed; 

 provided, that the power herein conferred on such mosquito commissions 

 shall not extend over any land area owned by any municipality or county of 

 the State or by the State of New Jersey. The power hereby granted shall not 

 be construed as to limit the powers conferred on county mosquito extermina- 

 tion commissions by Chapter one hundred and four, Laws of one thousand 

 nine hundred and twelve, as amended. 



9. All moneys set aside out of the amount appropriated for the purpose of 

 this act by the Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station in accord- 

 ance with its provisions shall be paid out by the Comptroller of the State 

 upon the certificates of said director that all the conditions and requirements 

 of this act have been complied with, and in the case provided for in section 



