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this act have been complied with, and in the case provided for in section 5 

 payments shall be made to the contractor upon a statement by the person 

 in charge of the work, as therein prescribed, attested by said director, show- 

 ing the amount due and that the work has been completed in accordance 

 with the specifications of his contract. 



10. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the 

 said director of the State Agricultural Experiment Station shall have power 

 to expend such amount of money, annually, as may be appropriated by the 

 Legislature ; provided, that the aggregate sum appropriated for the pur- 

 poses of this act shall not exceed $350,000.00. The comptroller of the state shall 

 draw his vvarrant in payment of all bills approved by the director of the 

 State Experiment Station, and the treasurer of the state shall pay all war- 

 rants so drawn to the extent of the amount appropriated by the Legislature. 



11. This act shall take effect November i, 1906. 

 Approved April 20, 1906. 



Beginning in 1906 the drainage of the salt marsh for mosquito con- 

 trol went forward on the basis of the act last quoted until its efforts 

 were supplemented in the year 191 2 by an act which is known as 

 Chapter 104, Laws of 1912. 



Anti-mosquito Work of Local Associations 



The local campaign against mosquitoes in South Orange, under 

 the leadership of the South Orange Improvement Association, be- 

 ginning in 1901 continued steadily each year until it was taken over 

 by the Essex County Mosquito Extermination Commission and car- 

 ried on under the provisions of Chapter 104, Laws of 1912. 



In April, 1902, another anti-mosquito movement was started in 

 Elizabeth, Union County. There 16 citizens subscribed $25.00 each 

 for field work toward overcoming the pest. This was spent in oil- 

 ing and draining a small portion of meadow at the foot of Schiller 

 Street. 



In April, 1903, the Elizabeth Board of Health, with a $1,000 ap- 

 propriation, dug 40,000 feet of ditches, draining some 190 acres. 

 These were the first ditches to be dug by machine. 



The next to fall in line was Newark. Active work, though, was 

 not started until 1904, the Common Council that year voting the sum 

 of $5,000 for that purpose, having refused an appropriation the pre- 

 vious year. 



On May 5, 1903, the Newark City Board of Health appointed one 

 of its members, Frederick W. Becker, M. D., a committee to inquire 

 into the question of mosquito extermination. 



Several reports were submitted. On July 7, 1903, Dr. John B. 

 Smith read a paper on mosquito elimination, and also exhibited a map 



