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breeding places as may be discovered and shall report upon the same as here- 

 inafter provided in section 8 of this act. Requests as hereinafter 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 i of 

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

 or village, there exist points or places where salt-marsh mosquitoes breed, 

 it shall be the duty of the director aforesaid, through his executive officer, 

 to notify, in writing, by personal service upon some officer or member thereof, 

 the board of health within whose jurisdiction such breeding places or points 

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

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

 I, and of the memorandum stating the character of the work to be done and 

 its probable cost, also therein provided for. It shall thereupon become the duty 

 of the said board, within 20 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 breedirg 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 68 of the laws 

 of 1887, as amended in chapter 119 of the laws of 1904, any water in which 

 mosquito larvae breed is a nu'sance and subject to abatement as such. Said 

 notice shall further contain an order that the nuisance, consisting of mosquito- 

 breeding pools, be abated within a period to be stated, and which shall not be 

 more than 60 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 salt-marsh 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 to proceed to abate under the powers given 

 in section 13 and 14 of the act and its amendments cited in the preceding 

 section, or, in case this is deemed inexpedient, it shall certify to the common 

 council or other governing bcdy of the city, tov/n, township, borough, or 

 village, the facts that such an order has been made and that it has rot been 

 complied with, and it shall request such council or other governing body to 

 provide the money necessary to enable the board to abate such nuisance, in 

 the manner provided by law. It shall thereu^jon become the duty of such 

 governing body to act upon such certif.cate at its next meeting and to consider 

 the appropriation of the money necessary to abate the nuisance so certified. 

 If it be decided that the municipality has no money available for such purpose, 

 such decision shall be transmitted to the board of health making the certificate, 

 which said board shall thereupon communicate such decision forthwith to 

 the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station or his executive officer. 



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

 served thereby, he may set aside out of the moneys appropriated by this 

 act such an amount as may be necessary to abate the nuisance found existing 

 and to abolish the mosquito-breeding places found in the municipality which 

 has declared itself without funds available as prescribed in the preceding 



