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The eggs hatch here hiter, and consequently spraying 

 cannot commence until May and must be continued through 

 June. 



Ax Act to provide against depredations bv the insect knoayn 

 AS the ocneria dispar or gypsy moth. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Oeiicral 

 Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, asfolloivs: 



Section 1. The State Board of Agriculture is hereby author- 

 ized, empowered and directed to provide and carry into executiou 

 all possible and reasoBable measures to prevent the spreading and 

 to secure the exterraiuatiou of the Ocneria dispar or gypsy moth iu 

 this Commonwealth ; and to this end said State Board of Agricult- 

 ure shall have full authority to provide itself with all necessary 

 material and appliances and to employ such competent persons, 

 servants and agents as it, said State Board of Agriculture, shall 

 from time to time deem needful iu the execution of the purposes 

 of this act ; and said State Board of Agriculture shall also have 

 the right itself or by any persous, servants or agents employed by 

 it, said Board, under this act to enter upon the lauds of any 

 person. 



Sect. 2. The owner of any laud so entered upou, who shall 

 suffer damage by such entry and acts done thereon by said State 

 Board of Agriculture, or under its dii-ectiou, 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 exe- 

 cutiou 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 to the reduction of said damages, and the Com- 

 monwealth shall refund to said cit}' or town one-half of the 

 amount of the damages recovered. 



Sect. 3. Said State Board of Agriculture shall have full 

 authority to make from time to time such rules and regulations iu 

 furtherance of the purposes of this act as it shall deem needful ; 

 which rules and regulations shall be published iu one or more 

 newspapers publislied iu the county of Suffolk ; and copies of 

 such rules and regulations shall be posted in at least three public 

 places iu each city or town iu which said Ocneria dispar or gypsy 

 moth shall be found by said State Board of Agriculture to exist, 

 and a copy thereof shall be filed with the cit}'^ clerk of each such 

 city, and with the town clerk of each such town ; and any person 



