154 TIIK Girsv MOTH. 
(Chapter 147.) 
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR SUPPRESSING THE 
GIPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTHS. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Gen- 
eral Court convened: 
Eggs, etc., public Section 1. For the purposes of this act, the eggs, caterpillars, 
nuisinops  
landowners not pupae and nests of the gipsy and brown-tail moths, and said 
liable - moths are hereby declared public nuisances; but no owner or 
occupant of an estate infested by such nuisance shall by reason 
thereof be liable to an action, civil or criminal, except to the 
extent and in the manner and form herein set forth, 
state agent for Sect. 2. The governor, with the advice of the council, shall em- 
compensation ploy, when and as they see fit, a state agent to act in suppressing 
and duties. sa j(j mo ths, said agent to have such official designation, to receive 
such compensation, and to be employed for such time as the gov- 
ernor and council may determine. Said agent shall in all partic- 
ulars, including the employment of assistants and the disburse- 
ments of necessary expenses, be subject to the direction and con- 
trol of the governor and council, who may establish such rules 
and regulations pertaining to said matters, and may enter into 
such arrangements for cooperating in said work with persons, 
corporations, municipalities, states or governments, as they shall 
deem expedient, 
cities and towns Sect. 3. Cities, by such public officer or board as may be desig- 
ber^mbuVs^kby na ted or appointed by the board of mayor and aldermen, and 
state, when. towns, by their boards of selectmen, shall destroy or cause to be 
destroyed said moths and the eggs, caterpillars, pupae, and nests 
thereof within their limits, except in parks and other property 
under the control of the state and in private property, save as 
otherwise provided herein. When any city or town shall have ex- 
pended in any one calendar year, within its limits, its funds to 
an amount equal to one tenth of one per cent, of its tax valuation 
of the previous year in destroying or suppressing said moths in 
any of their stages as herein provided, it shall receive reimburse- 
ment from the state to the extent of fifty per cent, of any ex- 
pense in excess of said one tenth of one per cent. No city or 
town shall be entitled to reimbursement from the state as afore- 
said until it shall have submitted to the state treasurer its item- 
ized receipted accounts and vouchers showing the amounts ex- 
pended by it for the purpose specified in this section nor until 
