No. 4.] AGRICULTURAL LEGISLATION. 349 



owners of private land may be taxed for work done under the provisions 

 of section one of this act in the manner provided by sections six and seven 

 of chapter three hundred and eighty-one of the acts of the year nineteen 

 hundred and five and acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto: 

 provided, however, that nothing contained in this act shall require the com- 

 monwealth to pay any part of any such expense, other than for the suppres- 

 sion of the gypsy and brown tail moths, that no land shall be assessed under 

 the provisions of tliis act which has been assessed the maximum amount 

 provided by said sections six and seven and amendments thereof for the 

 suppression of the gypsy and brown tail moths, and that the aggregate 

 assessment on any parcel of private lard for the suppression of the tent 

 caterpillar, leopard moth, elm beetle and gypsy and brown tail moths shall 

 not exceed the maximum provided by said sections six and seven and the 

 amendments thereof. 



Secijon 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved 

 April 23, 1914. 



KILLING OF DEER. 



Chapter 453. 



An Act relative to the taking and killing of deer. 

 Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 



Section one of chapter five hundred and twenty-nine of the acts of the 

 year nineteen hundred and thirteen is hereby amended by inserting after 

 the word "him", in the eighth line, the words: — or, with the consent of 

 the owner, upon land adjacent thereto, — by striking out the words "found 

 destroying or injuring any fruit tree or any crop", in the ninth and tenth 

 lines, and inserting in place thereof the words: — which he has reasonable 

 cause to believe has damaged or is about to damage crops, fruit or orna- 

 mental trees, — and by inserting after the word "destroyed", in the 

 twenty-second hne, the words: — or about to be injured or destroyed, — 

 so as to read as follows : — Section 1 . It shall be unlawful, except as here- 

 inafter provided, to hunt, pursue, wound or kill a deer, or to sell or offer 

 for sale, or to have in possession for the purpose of sale, a deer or the 

 flesh of a deer captured or killed in this conmionwealth: provided, that this 

 act shall not apply to a tame deer belonging to any person and kept on his 

 own premises; and provided, further, that any farmer or other person may, 

 on land owned or occupied by him, or, with the consent of the owner, upon 

 land adjacent thereto pursue, wound or kill any deer which he has reason- 

 able cause to believe has damaged or is about to damage crops, fruit or or- 

 namental trees, except grass growing on uncultivated land; and he may 

 authorize any member of his family, or any person employed by him so to 

 pursue, wound or kill a deer under the circumstances above specified. In 

 the event of the wounding or kilhng of a deer as aforesaid, it shall be the 

 duty of the person by whom or under whose direction the deer was wounded 

 or killed to mail or otherwise transmit within twenty-four hours thereafter 



