398 MOSQUITOES OF NORTH AMERICA 
fresh-water swamp or other territory suspected of breeding malarial or other 
mosquitoes, within the jurisdiction of such board, and he shall prepare a map of 
such suspected area, locating upon it such mosquito-breeding places as may be 
discovered, and shall 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, 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 prepared as prescribed in section one, and of the memorandum stating 
the character of the work to be done and its probable cost, also therein provided 
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 owner- 
ship, so far as ascertainable, of the territory on which the breeding places occur, 
and to notify the owner or owners of such lands, if they can be found or ascer- 
tained, 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 thousand 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 larve breed is a nuisance 
and subject to abatement as such. Said notice shall further contain an order 
that the nuisance, consisting 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 amendments 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 sections 
thirteen and fourteen of the act and its amendments cited in the preceding 
section, or, in case this is deemed inexpedient, 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 provide the 
money necessary to enable the board to abate such nuisance in the manner pro- 
vided by law. It shall thereupon become the duty of such governing body to act 
upon such certificate at its next meeting and to consider the appropriation of the 
money necessary to abate the nuisance so certified. If it be decided that the 
municipality has no money available for such purpose, such decision shall be 
transmitted to the board of health making the certificate, which said board shall 
thereupon communicate such decision forthwith to the director of the Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station or his executive officer. 
“5. If, in the judgment of the director aforesaid, public interests will be 
served thereby, he may set aside out of the moneys appropriated by this act such 
an amount as may be necessary to abate the nuisance found existing and to 
abolish the mosquito-breeding places found in the municipality which has de- 
elared itself without funds available as prescribed in the preceding section. 
Notice that such an amount has been set aside as above described shall be given 
