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6. The sum of $2500.00 is hereby appropriated to the Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station for the fiscal year ending October 31, 1905 and the sum of 

 $3500.00 is hereby appropriated to said station for the fiscal j'ear ending 

 October 31, 1906, to defray the cost of executing this law and of making 

 such investigations and experiments as may be necessary to carry out its 

 intent and purpose, and the further sum of $10,000.00, $4,000.00 to become avail- 

 able during the fiscal year ending October 31, 1905, and $6,000.00 for the fiscal 

 year ending October 31, 1906, or so much thereof as is needed, is hereby ap- 

 propriated to said station to be used in carrying out the provisions for state 

 aid. 



7. This act shall take effect immediately. 

 Approved March 31, 1905. 



Local authorities with one exception, EHzahetli, r.ttLrly failed to 

 take advantage of this law and all the money ap})ropriated, with 

 the exception of $1,000 whi:h was spent on the Elizabeth marsh, was- 

 relnrned to the s'.ate treasury. 



During 1905 Dr. Smith caused a rapid survey of the entire salt 

 marsh to be made and calculated on the basis of that work that the 

 necessary initial drainage could be completed by the expenditure of 

 $350,000. With the facts in hand the State Legislature enacted a 

 law charging the New^ Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station with 

 the duty of draining the salt marsh with such portions of the $350,- 

 000 as the appropriations committee could be induced to give from 

 year to year. The text of- this act is presented herew-ith : 



Chapter 134, Laws of 1906 



An Act to provide for locatiiiy and abolishing niosquito-brccding salt-niarsli 

 areas unthin the state, for assistance in dealing zvith certain inland breeding 

 places J and appropriating money to carry its proz'isio)is into effect. 



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

 Jersey : 



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 

 areas within the state, in such order as he may deem desirable, and to such 

 extent as he may deem necessary, and he shall prepare or cause to be pre- 

 pared a map of each section so surveyed, and shall indicate thereon all the 

 mosquito-breeding places found on every such area, together with a mem- 

 orandum of the method to be adopted in dealing 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 

 described, to survey at the request of the board of health of any city, town, 

 township, borough or village within the state, to such extent as may be neces- 

 sary, any fresh-water swamp or other territory suspected of breeding ma- 

 larial or other mosquitoes, within the jurisdiction of such Iroard, and he shall 

 prepare a map of such suspected area,, locating upon it such mosquito- 



