MOSQUITO LEGISLATION 399 
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 existing, 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 extent of 
fifty per centum or more of the money required 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 municipalities that contribute to the work and in 
order of the percentage which they contribute; those contributing the highest 
percentage to be in all cases preferred in order. 
“%, In all cases where a municipality contributes fifty per centum or more 
of the estimated cost of abolishing the breeding places for salt-marsh mosquitoes 
within its jurisdiction, the work may be done by the municipality as other work 
is done under its direction, and the amount set aside as provided in section six 
may be paid to the treasurer or other disbursing officer of such municipality for 
use in completing the work; but no payment shall be made to such treasurer or 
other disbursing officer until the amount appropriated by the municipality has 
been actually expended, nor until a certificate has been filed by the director or 
his executive officer stating that the work already done is satisfactory and suffi- 
cient to obtain the desired result, and that the arrangements made for its com- 
pletion are proper and can be carried out for the sum awarded. 
“ 8. In all investigations made under section two of this act the report to be 
made to the board of health requesting the survey shall state what mosquitoes 
were found in the territory complained of, whether they are local breeders or 
migrants from other points, and, in the case of migrants, their probable source, 
whether the territory in question is dangerous or a nuisance because of mosquito 
breeding, the character of the work necessary to abate such nuisance and abolish 
the breeding places, and the probable cost of the work. Said board of health 
must then proceed to abolish the breeding places found under the general powers 
of such boards, but if it shall appear that the necessary cost of the work shall 
equal or exceed the value of the land without increasing its taxable value, such 
board may apply to the director aforesaid, who may, if he deems the matter of 
sufficient public interest, contribute to the cost of the necessary work, provided 
that not more than fifty per centum of the amount shall be contributed in any 
case, and no more than five hundred dollars in any one municipality. 
“9. All moneys contributed or set aside out of the amount appropriated in 
this act by the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station in accordance 
with its provisions shall be paid out by the Comptroller of the State upon the 
certificate of said director that all the conditions and requirements of this act 
have been complied with, and in the case provided for in section five payments 
shall be made to the contractor upon a statement by the person in charge of the 
work, as therein prescribed, attested by said director, showing the amount due 
and that the work has been completed in accordance with the specifications of his 
contract. 
“10, For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the 
said director of the State Agricultural Experiment Station shall have power to 
expend such amount of money, annually, as may be appropriated by the Legis- 
lature; provided, that the aggregate sum appropriated for the purposes of this 
