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mayor and aldermen or the selectmen to the person so appointed. When 

 any city or town shall have expended within its hmits city or town funds 

 to an amount in excess of five thousand dollars in any one fiscal year, in 

 suppressing gypsy or brown tail moths, the commonwealth shall reimburse 

 such city or town to the extent of fifty per cent of such excess above said 

 five thousand dollars. 



Section 3. This act shall take effect on the first day of January, nine- 

 teen hundred and fourteen. [Approved May 2, 1913. 



Furnishing Arsenate of Lead at Cost. ' 

 As a further aid to property owners in the suppression of 

 gypsy and brown-tail moths, a bill was passed by the General 

 Court, giving authority to local superintendents in such towns 

 as are receiving aid from the State to furnish arsenate of lead to 

 property owners at a price not to exceed the cost to the State. 

 The act reads as follows: — 



An Act to authorize Local Moth Superintendents to furnish 

 Arsenate of Lead to Real Estate Owners. 



Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section 1. For the purpose of assisting in the extermination of 

 gypsy and brown tail moths, the local moth superintendent in any city 

 or town now receiving aid from the commonwealth, in suppressing the 

 said insect pests is hereby authorized to furnish, at the cost thereof, 

 arsenate of lead to any owner of real estate situated within the limits of 

 such city or town. Material purchased under the provisions hereof shall 

 be used only for the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths and only 

 upon land of the purchaser. 



Section 2. The amounts due for material furnished under the provi- 

 sions of section one shall be charged by the local moth superintendent to 

 the owners of private estates and shall be collected in the same manner 

 as the amounts assessed for private work, and shall be a lien on said es- 

 tates in the same manner as the assessments for private work. The 

 amount thus charged shall be deducted from the total amount expended 

 in each city or town in the suppression of the gypsy and brown tail moths 

 in the same manner as the amounts charged for private work, as provided 

 for in sections six and seven of chapter three hundred and eighty-one of 

 the acts of the year nineteen hundred and five and its several amendments. 

 [Approved May 7, 1913. 



Public Domain. 

 Taking cognizance of the great possibilities which lie in for- 

 estry as a means of adding to the wealth and prosperity of the 

 State, the Massachusetts Forestry Association has devoted much 



