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thousand dollars may be expended, and the bills for 

 such expenditures properly approved by the persons 

 authorized by said state board to investigate the matter, ' 

 shall be sent to the auditor of the Commonwealth who 

 shall certify them in the same manner as other claims 

 against the Commonwealth. 



Sect. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 



To provide against Depredations by the Insect known as 

 the Ocneria dispar or Gypsy Moth. 



[Chap. 210, Acts of 1891.] 



Section 1. The state board of agriculture is hereby Extermina- 



,., -, 1 -,• ij • ^ T lion of the 



authorized, empowered and directed to provide and carry ooneria.dispar 

 into execution all reasonable measures to prevent the moth.^^^ 

 spreading and to secure the extermination of the ocneria 

 dispar or gypsy moth in this Commonwealth ; and to this 

 end said board shall have full authority to provide all 

 necessary material and appliances, and to employ such 

 competent persons, servants and agents as it shall from 

 time to time deem necessary in the carrying out the pur- 

 poses of this act ; and said board shall also have the right 

 itself or by any persons, servants or agents employed 

 by it under the provisions of this act to enter upon the 

 lands of any person. 



Sect. 2. The owner of any land so entered upon, who Remedy of 

 shall suffer damage by such entry and acts done thereon gi^ffedng 

 by said state board of agriculture or under its direction, '^^'^^^e. 

 may recover the same of the city or town in which the 

 lands so claimed to have been damaged are situate, by 

 action of contract ; but any benefits received by such 

 entry and the acts done on such lands in the execution of 

 the purposes of this act shall be determined by the court 

 or jury before whom such action is heard, and the amount 

 thereof shall be applied in the reduction of said damages ; 

 and the Commonwealth shall refund to said city or town 

 one-half of the amount of the damages recovered. 



Sect. 3. Said state board of agriculture shall have Board of agri- 

 full authority to make from time to time such rules and m;lke rule's^ 

 regulations in furtherance of the purposes of this act as it uons^^"'''' 

 shall deem needful, which rules and regulations shall be 

 published in one or more newspapers published in the 

 county of Suffolk ; and copies of sucli rules and regula- 

 tions shall be posted in at least three public places iu 



