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state's land surface and annoying very seriously nearly three-fourths 

 of her population. These and other facts he embodied in a large 

 special report of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station 

 published in 1904. 



With facts derived by this study in hand, the State Legislature was 

 induced to pass an act in 1905 providing for state aid to communities 

 that cared to spend their own funds in salt-marsh drainage for mos- 

 quito control. The wording of this act is presented herewith : 



Chapter 80, Laws of 1905 



An Act to provide a method for locating and destroying mosquito-breeding 

 areas, authorising appropriations for said purposes and providing state aid for 

 freeing salt-marsh areas from mosquitoes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New 

 Jersey : 



1. It shall be lawful for the mayor, or executive officer, or the board of 

 health of any city, borough, incorporated town, village, or the governing body 

 or board of health of any township or county to make request in writing to 

 the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station in this state, or to the 

 person appointed by said director for the purposes of this act, to investigate, 

 or cause to be investigated, the source of breeding places of mosquitoes 

 which may or do infest said city, borough, incorporated town, village, town- 

 ship or county; and it shall be the duty of such director, or the person 

 appointed by him, as soon as may be after such application is made, to inves- 

 tigate, or cause to be investigated, the source or breeding places of such 

 mosquitoes, and he shall, as soon thereafter as possible, report to the officer 

 or body making such application the results of the investigation made, and 

 also the measures that should be adopted to destroy such breeding places or 

 render them free from future mosquito breeding. 



2. If such investigation shows that the sources or breeding places of the 

 mosquitoes complained of are wholly within the jurisdiction of the city, 

 borough, incorporated town, village, township or county from which the ap- 

 plication is made, a report shall be made to the officer or body requesting the 

 investigation, and if such request does not come from a board of health, a 

 copy shall also be forwarded to the board of health of such applying city, 

 borough, incorporated town, village, township or county, which report shall 

 specify in such detail as is possible such breeding places as may be abol- 

 ished by such board under the powers conferred upon it by the laws relating 

 to such boards ; if the investigation shows that the mosquitoes complained of 

 breed wholly or in part at a point or points without the jurisdiction of the 

 city, borough, incorporated town, village, township or county from which the 

 application is made, a copy of the report showing this result shall also be 

 sent to the board or boards of health in the jurisdiction or jurisdictions where 

 such breeding places are found, or if there be no organized board of health 

 in any such jurisdiction, then the copy shall be sent to the mayor or execu- 

 tive officer of said city, borough, incorporated town, village, or the gov- 

 erning body of such township or county; the copy of the report above pro- 



