L56 
THE GIPSY MO I H. 
Proceedings to 
enjoin nuisance. 
State and na- 
tional agents may 
enter premises. 
Expenditure of 
funds by gover- 
nor and council. 
Appropriations 
not exceeding 
$25,000. 
Wilful obstruc- 
tion "t state or 
national agents, 
etc.; penalty. 
Takes i-ffect on 
passage. 
Said notice may designate the manner in which said work shall 
be done, which shall be subject at all times to the approval of the 
governor and council or their agent. If the owner or owners of 
said lands shall fail to destroy such moths, eggs, caterpillars, 
pupae or nests, or to cause them to be destroyed, in accordance 
with the requirements of said notice, then the city acting by the 
public officer or board designated or appointed, as provided in sec- 
tion 3, and the town, acting by its board of selectmen, may and, 
if so ordered by the governor and council, shall destroy the same, 
and the amount actually expended thereon, not exceeding one 
half of one per cent, of the assessed valuation of said land as here- 
tofore specified in this section, shall be assessed upon said lands 
and improvements, and the amount required in addition thereto 
shall be apportioned between the city or town and the state in ac- 
cordance with the provisions of section 3 of this act. The 
amounts to be assessed upon private estates as herein provided 
shall be assessed and collected like ordinary taxes at the next 
general tax assessment following their expenditure, and shall be 
a lien on said estates in the same manner and with the same effect 
as is provided in the case of other taxes, and shall be subject to 
the provisions of sections 10 and 11 of chapter 59 of the Public 
Statutes, relative to abatement and appeal. 
Sect. 6. The attorney-general may commence and prosecute 
proceedings for an injunction to restrain the continuance of any 
nuisance specified in this act whenever in his opinion such action 
is required for the protection of the public against the effects of 
such nuisance. 
Sect. 7. It shall be lawful for any agent or employee of the 
state or of the United States to enter upon any land in this state 
for the purpose of searching for or destroying said moths in any 
of their states, and to employ all proper and reasonable methods 
to destroy the same, doing no unnecessary damage to the prem- 
ises. 
Sect. 8. The governor and council, independently of or in co- 
operation with landowners and cities and towns, may expend or 
cause to be expended such sums as they may deem proper in de- 
stroying said moths in any of their stages, without regard to the 
amounts which may have been expended by such landowner, or 
such city or town, in any locality where in their opinion conditions 
require special efforts in suppressing or destroying said pests. 
Sect. 9. To meet the expenses incurred under the authority of 
this act, the governor and council are authorized and empowered 
to expend such sums, not exceeding the total sum of twenty-five 
thousand dollars, as they may deem proper; and the governor is 
authorized to draw his warrant for said sums, payable out of any 
funds not otherwise appropriated. 
Sect. 10. Any person who wilfully resists or obstructs any state 
agent or his assistants or any officer or agent of the United States 
or of a city or town while lawfully engaged in the execution of 
the purposes of this act, and any person who wilfully brings into 
this state, disseminates or propagates any gipsy or brown-tail 
moth eggs, caterpillar or pupae, shall be deemed guilty of mis- 
demeanor and shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars for 
each offense. 
Sect. 11. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 
(Approved April 5, 1907.) 
