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cation appears to be impracticable, then by posting such notice on said 

 parcels of land, requiring that the eggs, caterpillars., pupa? and nests of said 

 moths shall be destroyed within a time specified in the notice. The pub- 

 lication of the notice in newspapers published or circulated in the city or 

 town at least three times during the month of October shall be deemed a 

 compliance with the law, if in the opinion of the mayor or selectmen such 

 publication will be a sufficient notice. 



When, in the opinion of the mayor or selectmen, the cost of destroying 

 such eggs, caterpillars, pupse and nests on lands contiguous and held under 

 one ownership in a city or town shall exceed one half of one per cent of the 

 assessed value of said lands, then a part of said premises on which said 

 eggs, caterpillars, pupae or nests shall be destroyed may be designated in 

 such notice, and such requirement shall not apply to the remainder of 

 said premises. The mayor or selectmen may designate the manner in 

 which such work shall be done, but all work done under this section shall 

 be subject to the approval of the state superintendent. 



If the owner or owners shall fail to destroy such eggs, caterpillars, pupae 

 or nests in accordance with the requirements of the said notice, then the 

 city or town, acting by the public officer or board or such city or town 

 designated or appointed as aforesaid, shall, subject to the approval of the 

 said superintendent, destroy the same, and the amount actually expended 

 thereon, not exceeding one haK 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 a;n 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 provided shall be assessed and col- 

 lected, 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 upon any parcel of land within the limits of such 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. [Approved March 31, 1915. 



ARSENATE OF LEAD FOR MOTH WORK. 



General Acts, Chapter 80. 



An Act to authorize local moth superintendents to furnish 

 arsenate of lead to towns. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. Section one of chapter six hvmdred and five of the acts of 

 the year nineteen hundred and thirteen is hereby amended by striking out 

 the words "now receiving aid from the commonwealth in suppressing the 

 said insect pests", in the third and fourth fines, — so as to read as follows: 



