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of such suspected area, locating upon it such 

 mosquito-breeding places as may be discovered, 

 and sliall report upon the same as hereinafter 

 provided in section eight of this act. Requests 

 as hereinbefore provided for in this section may 

 be made by any board of health within the state, 

 upon its own motion, and must be made upon the 

 petition, in writing, of ten or more freeholders 

 residing within the jurisdiction of any such board. 



3. Whenever, in the course of a survey made as 

 prescribed in section one of this act, it is found 

 that within the limits of any city, town, town- 

 ship, borough or village there exist points or 

 places where salt-marsh mosquitoes breed, it shall 

 be the duty of the director aforesaid, through his 

 executive officer, to notify, in writing, by personal 

 service upon some officer or member thereof, the 

 board of health within whose jurisdiction such 

 breeding points or places occur, of the extent and 

 location of such breeding places, and such notice 

 shall be accompanied by a copy of the map pre- 

 pared as prescribed in section one^ and of the 

 memorandum stating the character of the work 

 to be done and its probable cost, also therein pro- 

 vided for. It shall thereupon become the duty 

 of the said board, within twenty days from the 

 time at which notice is served as aforesaid, to 

 investigate the ownership, so far as ascertainable, 

 of the territory on which the breeding places oc- 

 cur, and to notify the owner or owners of such 

 lands, if they can be found or ascertained, in 

 such manner as other notices of such boards are 

 served, of the facts set out in the communication 

 from the director, and of the further fact that, 

 under chapter sixty-eight of the laws of one thou- 

 sand eight hundred and eighty-seven, as amended 

 in chapter one hundred and nineteen of the laws 

 of one thousand nine hundred and four, any water 

 in which mosquito larvae breed is a nuisance and 

 subject to abatement as such. Said notice shall 

 further contain an order that the nuisance, con- 

 sisting of mosquito-breeding pools, be abated 

 within a period to be stated, and which shall not 

 be more than sixty days from the date of said 

 notice, failing which the board would proceed to 

 abate, in accordance with the act and its amend- 

 ments above cited. 



4. In case any owner of salt-marsh lands on 

 which mosquito-breeding places occur and upon 

 whom notice has been served as above set out, 

 fails or neglects to comply with the order of the 

 board within the time limited therein, it shall be 

 the duty of said board to proceed to abate under 

 the powers given in section thirteen and fourteen 

 of the act and its amendments cited in the pre- 



ceding section, or, in case this is deemed inex- 

 pedient, it shall certify to the common council or 

 other governing body of the city, town, township, 

 borough or village the facts that such an order 

 has been made and that it has not been complied 

 with, and it shall request such council or other 

 governing body to pi-ovide the money necessary to 

 enable the board to abate such nuisance in the 

 manner provided by law. It shall thereupon be- 

 come the duty of such governing body to act upon 

 such certificate at its next meeting and to con- 

 sider the appropriation of the money necessary 

 to abate the nuisance so certified. If it be de- 

 cided that the municipality has no money avail- 

 able for such purpose, such decision shall be trans- 

 mitted to the board of health making the certifi- 

 cate, which said board shall thereupon communi- 

 cate such decision forthwith to the director of the 

 agricultural experiment station or his executive 

 officer. 



5. If, in the judgment of the director afore- 

 said, public interests will be served thereby, he 

 may set aside out of the moneys appropriated by 

 this act such an amount as may be necessaiy to 

 abate the nuisance found existing and to abolish 

 the mosquito-breeding places found in the munici- 

 pality which has declared itself without funds 

 available as prescribed in the preceding section. 

 Notice that such amount has been set aside as 

 above described shall be given to the board of 

 health within whose jurisdiction such mosquito- 

 breeding places are situated, and said board shall 

 thereupon appoint some person designated by said 

 director or his executive officer a special inspector 

 of said board for the sole purpose of acting in its 

 behalf in abating the nuisance found to be exist- 

 ing, and all acts and work done to abate such 

 nuisances and to abolish such breeding places 

 shall be done in the name of and on behalf of 

 such board of health. 



6. If in the proceeding taken under section four 

 of this act the common council or other governing 

 body of any municipality appropriate to the ex- 

 tent of fifty per centum or more of the money re- 

 quired to abate the nuisance and to abolish the 

 mosquito-breeding places within its jurisdiction it 

 shall become the duty of said director of the 

 agricultural experiment station to set aside out 

 of the moneys herein appropriated such sum as 

 may be necessary to complete the work, and in all 

 cases preference shall be given, in the assignment 

 of moneys herein appropriated, to those munici- 

 palities that contribute to the work and in the 

 order of the percentage which they contribute; 



