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days; but in the case of all others the Commonwealth shall reimburse cities and 

 towns annually according to the provisions of this act. 



No city or town shall be entitled to any reimbursement from the Commonwealth 

 until it has submitted to the auditor of the Commonwealth itemized accounts and 

 vouchers showing the definite amount expended by it for the purpose of this act; 

 nor shall any money be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth to cities or 

 towns, pursuant to the provisions of this act, until said vouchers and accounts have 

 been approved by the superintendent and the auditor of the Commonwealth. 



For the ])urp()ses of this section the years nineteen hundred and five and nineteen 

 hundred and seven shall be considered half years, and the valuation for the year 

 nineteen hundred and four shall be taken as a basis. 



Sec. 5. [As amended by section 3, chapter 268, acts of 1906.] When, in the opinion 

 of the superintendent, any city or town is not expending a sufficient amount for the 

 abatement of said nuisance, or is not conducting the necessary work in a proper man- 

 ner, then the superintendent shall, with the advice and consent of the governor, order 

 such city or town to expend such an amount as the superintendent shall deem neces- 

 sary, and in accordance with such methods as the superintendent, with the consent 

 of the governor, shall prescribe: Provided, That no city or town where the assessed 

 valuation of real and personal property exceeds six million dollars shall be required 

 to expend, exclusive of any reimbursement received from the Commonwealth, during 

 any one full year more than one fifteenth of one per cent of such valuation, and that 

 no town where the assessed valuation of real and personal property is less than six 

 million dollars shall be required to expend, exclusive of any reimbursement received 

 from the Commonwealth, during any one full year more than one twenty-fifth of one 

 per cent of such valuation. For the purposes of this section the valuation of the year 

 nineteen hundred and four shall be used. 



Any city or town failing to comply with the directions of the said superintendent 

 in the performance of said work within the date specified by him shall pay a fine of 

 one hundred dollars a day for failure so to do; said fine to be collected by information 

 brought by the attorney-general in the supreme judicial court for Suffolk County. 



Sec. 6. [As amended by section 4, chapter 268, acts of 1906.] The mayor of every 

 city and the selectmen of every town shall, on or before the first day of November in 

 each year, and at such other times as he or they shall see fit, or as the state superin- 

 tendent may order, cause a notice to be sent to the owner or owners, so far as can be 

 ascertained, of every parcel of land therein which is infested with said moths; or, if 

 such notification appears to be impracticable, then by posting such notice on said 

 parcels of land, requii-ingthat the eggs, caterpillars, pupa? and nests of said moths shall 

 be destroyed within a time specified in the notice. 



When, in the opinion of the mayor or selectmen, the cost of destroying such eggs, 

 caterpillars, pupae, and nests on lands contiguous and held under one ownership in a 

 city or town shall exceed one half of one per cent of the assessed value of said lands, 

 then a part of said premises on which said eggs, caterpillars, pupae or nests shall be 

 destroyed may be designated in such notice, and such requirement shall not apply to 

 the remainder of said premises. The mayor or selectmen may designate the manner 

 in which such work shall be done, but all work done under this section shall be subject 

 to the approval of the state superintendent. 



If the owner or owners shall fail to destroy such eggs, caterpillars, pupae or nests 

 in accordance with the requirements of the said notice, then the city or town, acting 

 by the public officer or board of such city or town designated or appointed as aforesaid, 

 shall, subject to the approval of the said superintendent, destroy the same, and the 

 amount actually expended thereon, not exceeding one half of one per cent of the 

 assessed valuation of said lands, as heretofore specified in this section, shall be assessed 

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