GYPSY MOTH WORK. 3O9 



Section 2. (Authority.) The state entomologist shall have 

 authority to suppress and exterminate said gypsy and brown-tail 

 moths, and may employ such assistants and laborers as he deems 

 expedient; may cut and burn brush and worthless trees in 

 fields, pastures, or woodlands, or along the roadsides on any 

 public or private grounds; and may prune, spray, scrape, or 

 fill cavities in any fruit, shade, or forest trees, or clean up any 

 rubbish for the purpose of furthering said work. The said 

 state entomologist, or any of his assistants, deputies, agents, 

 or employes, shall have the right, at all times, to enter any 

 public or private grounds in the performance of their duties: 



Section 3. (Living specimens must not be transported. 

 Penalty.) Any person transporting living eggs, larvae, pupae, 

 or adults of the gypsy or brown-tail moths into the state, or 

 from an infested region within the state to a region not hitherto 

 infested, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or 

 imprisoned not more than one year. 



Section 4. (Wilful obstruction illegal. Penalty.) Any per- 

 son wilfully obstructing or hindering said state entomologist 

 or his assistants or employes, in the work of suppressing said 

 insects, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than 

 five hundred dollars. 



Section 5. (Appropriation.) The sum of one thousand 

 dollars is hereby appropriated to be paid out of any money in 

 the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of 

 this act for the two fiscal years ending September 30, 1909; 

 and the board of control is hereby authorized, if said board 

 deem it advisable, to increase said appropriation to such amount 

 not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of ten thousand dollars 

 as, in the opinion of said board of control and the state ento- . 

 mologist, is necessary, said sum to be in addition to the total 

 amount to which said board of control is limited by law. 



Section 6. This act shall take effect from its passage, and 

 the appropriation provided for in section five shall become 

 immediately available for the purpose of this act. 



Approved June 5, 1907. 



Provisions of the Law. 



An examination of the preceding measure will show that 

 the State of Connecticut has by statute provided for the control 



