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every county in the state. The duty of this commission is to formu- 

 late plans, secure funds, build and operate an organization for the 

 suppression of the mosquito pest. 



Under the provisions of this law the appointing power was lodged 

 in the hands of the Supreme Court judges and the New Jersey Ag- 

 ricultural Experiment Station was designated as the centralizing and 

 general directing agency. 



The language of this important act is submitted herewith : 



Chapter 104, Laws of 1912 



An Act for the establishment of county mosquito extermination commis- 

 sions and to define their powers and duties. 



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

 Jersey : 



I. In any county of this state it shall be the duty of the justice of the 

 Supreme Court presiding over the courts of said county to appoint six per- 

 sons, three of whom must be persons who are or have been members or 

 employes of boards of health. A board of commissioners to be known as 

 •"The County Mosquito Extermination Commission," inserting 



the name of the county in and for which the commissioners are appointed. 

 The commissioners first appointed under the provisions of this act in any 

 county shall hold office respectively for the term of one, two and three years, 

 as indicated and fixed in the order of appointment and all such commission- 

 ers, after the first appointment, shall be so appointed for the full term of 

 three years ; vacancies in the said commission occurring by resignation or 

 otherwise shall be filled by such justice, and the persons appointed to fill such 

 vacancies shall be appointed for the unexpired term only; such persons so 

 appointed, when duly qualified, constituting such commission and their suc- 

 cessors are hereby created a body politic, with power to sue and be sued, to 

 use a common seal and make by-laws : the members of any such commis- 

 sion shall serve without compensation, except that the necessary expenses of 

 each commissioner for actual attendance on meetings of said commission 

 shall be allowed and paid. No persons employed by the said commission 

 shall be a member thereof; before entering upon the duties of his office 

 each commissioner shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before 

 the clerk of the county in and for which he is appointed, to faithfully and 

 impartially perform the duties of his office, which oath or affirmation shall 

 be filed with the clerk of the county wherein the commission of which he is 

 a member is appointed ; every such commission shall annually choose from 

 among its members a president and treasurer, and appoint a clerk or secre- 

 tary and such other officers and employes as it may deem necessary to carry 

 out the purposes of this act; it may also determine the duties and compensa- 

 tion of such employes, and make all rules and regulations respecting the 

 same. It shall be the duty of the board of chosen freeholders in each county 

 to provide such commission with a suitable office where its maps, plans, doc- 

 uments, records and accounts shall be kept, subject to public inspection at 



