APPENDIX C 301 



July of this year each local authority shall at its own 

 expense take all such measures as may be necessary for 

 the reception and destruction of all rats killed within the 

 district of such authority and delivered up to it. For the 

 purpose of paying a premium for each rat delivered up 

 each local authority shall out of the common funds make 

 an annual grant which shall be not less than three kroner 

 for each hundred inhabitants, according to the then last 

 general census, should the amount required for the pay- 

 ment of premiums make such grant necessary. It shall 

 be left to each local authority to decide whether further 

 grants shall be made towards this purpose. The premium 

 to be paid for each rat delivered up shall not be more 

 than 10 ore or less than 5 ore, and shall be fixed by 

 each local authority, which shall give due and sufficient 

 notice both of the date fixed for the commencement of 

 the operations of the Law and the premium to be paid. 

 As far as possible, a uniform rate of payment by premium 

 shall be fixed by local authorities within the same county. 

 Rats may not be delivered up to any local authority but 

 to that within the district of which they have been caught ; 

 any person acting in contravention (Paragraph 5 of the 

 aforementioned Law) shall be liable to a penalty not 

 exceeding 100 kroner. 



The Chairman of the Councils of the various local 

 authorities are hereby requested to take steps for the 

 discussion and carrying out of the provisions of this Law. 



If the grant made by any local authority for the 

 purposes of this Law should prove insufficient for the 

 payment of premiums on all rats delivered up, such 

 authority may apply to the f Association for the Author- 

 ised Extermination of Rats/' Colbjoernsengade 14, Copen- 

 hagen B, for a subsidy, this Association having undertaken 

 to organise the obtaining of voluntary subscriptions for 

 the carrying out of the purposes of this Act. 



The said Association is further prepared, at the request 

 of local authorities, to render expert assistance in com- 

 mencing and carrying through operations under this Act. 



