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Sec. 8. The said State Board of Agriculture may exercise all the duties and powers 

 hereiu coufoneil upon said board l>y and tlirough its secretary and sucdi members of 

 said Board as said board may designate and ai>]ioint to liave in charge iu coujunc- 

 tiou with its secretary iu the execution of tlie purposes of this act. 



At a special meetiug of the State Board of Agriculture held April 28, 1891, to con- 

 sider an act of the Massachusetts legislature entitled "An act to provide against 

 depredations by the insect known as the Ocneria dispar, or Gypsy Moth," ami to pro- 

 vide for carrying out the provisions of said act, it was Aoted that William K. 

 Sessions, N. S. Shaler, and Francis H. Appleton be a committee of the said board to 

 exercise all the duties and powers conferred by the above-mentioned act upon the 

 State Board of Agriculture. 



William R. Sessions, 



Secretary. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



1. All persons .ire forbidden by law to remove the Gypsy Moth, its nests, or eggs 

 from one place to another, iu any city or town, and are requested to exercise care 

 against so transporting the Gypsy Moth on teams and carriages. 



2. All persons are forbidden to remove from the present locality in the towns of Med- 

 ford, Everett, Chelsea, Maiden, Melrose, and Arlington any hay, manure, wood, hark, 

 trees, rags, lumber, or shrubbery of any kind, without a written permit from the 

 department. All loads must be well covered with canvas covers. 



^. All persons are forbidden to, in any way, imitate or erase the marks employed 

 by this department to designate trees, fences, or buildings which are infested or have 

 been cleaned. 



4. All vehicles leaving the above-named district may be stopped by the officers of 

 the department, and delayed until their contents have been sufficiently inspected to 

 determine the fact that they are not liable to transmit the eggs or any other form of 

 the insect. 



.^). No person shall remove the bark from trees, nor attempt to scrape and clean 

 them, without first notitiying this department, and having said trees thoroughly in- 

 spected, and if found infested, cleaned under its direction. 



The eggs of the Gypsy Moth are frequently scattered abroad by scraping the trees 

 and by careless gathering ; therefore, all persons except the authorized agents of this 

 department are forbidden to remove the eggs of the Gypsy Motli from trees or other 

 objects npon which they may have been deposited. 



Real-estate owners and tenants are requested to destroy all other forms of the 

 moth which they may find npon their premises, 



G. All persons upon notice are required to confine their dogs while the agents of 

 this department are at work upon their j) remises. 



7. Owners and tenants are requested to gather and burn, before June 15, 1801, all 

 rubbish and useless material upon their premises that may provide nesting places for 

 the insect and to till with cement or other solid material all holes iu trees upon their 

 premises. 



8. All persons are requested to keep the windows of their houses protectee! by 

 screens during the summer mouths, as it is found the insect often lays its eggs iu the 

 houses wherever it can gain admittance. 



9. All persons having reasonable cause to believe that the eggs, caterpillars, or 

 other forms of the Gypsy Moth exist on or about their premises are earnestly re- 

 quested forthwith to notify E. H. Forbush, director, by letter addressed to his office 

 in Maiden, Mass. Information of their existence in isolated or unexpected localities 

 will be gratefully received, and all persons furnishing such information will receive 

 the thanks of the department. 



10. Notice is hereby given that it will, iu some cases, be necessary to remove boards 

 from fences or buildings. In all cases they will eventually be replaced, if possible, 



