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of the said notice, then the city or town, acting by the public 

 officer or board of such city or town designated or appointed 

 as aforesaid, shall, subject to the approval of the said super- 

 intendent, destroy the same, and the amount actually ex- 

 pended thereon, not exceeding one half of one per cent of the 

 assessed valuation of said lands, as heretofore specified in this 

 section, shall be assessed upon the said lands; and such an 

 amount in addition as shall be required shall be apportioned 

 between the city or town and the commonwealth in accord- 

 ance with the provisions of section four of this act. The 

 amounts to be assessed upon private estates as herein pro- 

 vided shall be assessed and collected, and shall be a lien on 

 said estates, in the same manner and with the same effect as 

 is provided in the case of assessments for street watering. 



The public officer or board of any city or town designated 

 or appointed as aforesaid, or any agent or employee of such 

 public officer or board, may at any time enter Public O ffi cer 



upon any parcel of land within the limits of such mft y enter 



. . upon land, 

 city or town for the purpose of determining 



whether or not such parcel of land is infested with said moths, 

 or the extent to which such parcel of land is so infested. 



SECTION 7. [As amended by section 5, chapter 268, Acts 

 of 1906, and by section 3, chapter 521, Acts of 1907.] If, in 

 the opinion of the assessors of a city or town, any 

 land therein has received, by reason of the abate- 

 ment of said nuisances thereon by said superintendent or by 

 said city or town, a special benefit beyond the general ad- 

 vantage to all land in the city or town, then the said as- 

 sessors shall determine the value of such special benefit and 

 shall assess the amount thereof upon said land: provided, 

 that no such assessment on lands contiguous and held under 



