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Limits to required expenditure by cities and towns. No city or town 

 with an assessed real and personal valuation of more than $6,000,000 

 shall be required to expend in the suppression of the moths during 

 any one full year more than one-fifteenth of 1 per cent of such valua- 

 tion. No town with an assessed real and personal valuation of less 

 than $6,000,000 shall be required to thus expend during any one full 

 year more than one-twenty-fifth of 1 per cent of such valuation. 



Valuations of 1904 taken as basis. Wherever valuations of real and 

 personal property are referred to in the law for the suppression of 

 the gipsy and brown-tail moth the valuations of 1904 are meant. 



Wilful resistance or obstruction. Wilful resistance to or obstruction 

 of any agent of the Commonwealth or of any city or town, while 

 lawfully engaged in the execution of the purposes of the moth- 

 suppression law, is forbidden under penalty. 



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