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previous year shall be taken as a basis. The fiscal year for 

 nineteen hundred and seven and for all succeeding years shall 

 close on the thirtieth day of November. 



SECTION 5. [As amended by section 3, chapter 268, Acts 

 of 1906, by section 2, chapter 521, Acts of 1907, and chapter 

 Cities and ^^> ^ c ^ s ^ 1911.] When, in the opinion of the 



* eiied to'act su P ermten( ^ ent > anv c ity or town is not expend- 

 ' ing a sufficient amount for the abatement of said 

 nuisance, or is not conducting the necessary work in a proper 

 manner, then the superintendent shall, with the advice and 

 consent of the governor, order such city or town to expend 

 such an amount as the superintendent shall deem necessary, 

 and in accordance with such methods as the superintendent, 

 with the consent of the governor, shall prescribe: provided, 

 that no city or town where the assessed valuation of real and 

 personal property exceeds six million dollars shall be re- 

 quired to expend, exclusive of any reimbursement received 

 from the commonwealth, during any one full year more than 

 one fifteenth of one per cent of such valuation, and that no 

 town where the assessed valuation of real and personal prop- 

 erty is less than six million dollars shall be required to expend, 

 exclusive of any reimbursement received from the common- 

 wealth, during any one full year more than one twenty-fifth 

 of one per cent of such valuation. For the purposes of this 

 section the valuation of each previous year shall be used. 



Any city or town failing to comply with the directions of 

 the said superintendent in the performance of said work 

 Penait within the date specified by him shall pay a 



fine of one hundred dollars a day for failure so 

 to do; said fine to be collected by information brought by 

 the attorney-general in the supreme judicial court for Suffolk 

 county. 



