APPENDIX C 



A LAW ORDERING THE DESTRUCTION 



OF RATS WITHIN THE KINGDOM 



OF DENMARK 



WE, FREDERICK VIII., by the Grace of God, King of 

 Denmark, of the Wends and Goths, Duke of Sleswick, 

 Holstein, Stormarn, Ditmarsh, Lauenborg and Oldenborg : 

 MAKE KNOWN : 



The Riksdag has resolved and We have given Our 

 consent to the Law, as follows : 



i. When an Association constituted for the purpose 

 of effecting the systematic destruction of rats has proved 

 to the satisfaction of the Minister of the Interior that it 

 is in a position to expend on the furtherance of its objects, 

 within a period of three years, a sum of not less than 

 10,000 kroner per annum, it shall become incumbent 

 upon each local authority to make suitable arrangements 

 at the expense of the local funds, and commencing with 

 a date to be made known hereafter by the Minister of 

 the Interior, for the reception and the destruction of all 

 rats killed within the district of such authority and de- 

 livered up to such authority. 



For each rat delivered up each local authority shall 

 pay a premium, for the payment of which an annual 

 grant shall be made out of the local funds, which shall 

 be not less than three kroner per each hundred inhabi- 

 tants within the district of each local authority, according 

 to the then last general census. 



The State shall make for a period of three years an 

 annual grant of 30,000 kroner, of which one-third may 

 be expended on scientific experiments with preparations 



