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Limits to required expenditure by cities and towns. — No cit}^ or town 

 with an assessed real and personal valuation of inore than $6,000,000 

 shall be required to expend in the suppression of the moths during 

 any one full j^ear more than one-fifteenth of 1 per cent of such valua- 

 tion. No town with an assessed real and personal valuation of less 

 than $6,000,000 shall be required to thus expend during any one full 

 year more than one-twenty-tifth of 1 per cent of such valuation. 



Valuations of 1904 taken as basis. — Wherever valuations of real and 

 personal property are referred to in the law for the suppression of 

 the gipsy and brown-tail moth the valuations of ISO! are meant. 



"Wilful resistance or obstruction. — AVilful resistance to or obstruction 

 of any agent of the Commonwealth or of any city or town, while 

 lawfully engaged in the execution of the purposes of the moth- 

 suppression law, is forbidden under penalty. 



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