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years, a sum of not leea than 10,000 kroner per annum, it shall become incumbent 

 upon each local authority to make suitable arrangements at the expense of the local 

 funds, and commencing with a date to be made known hereafter by the minister of 

 the interior, for the reception and the destruction of all rats killed within the district 

 of such authority and delivered up to such authority. 



For each rat delivered up each local authority shall pay a premium, for the payment 

 of which an annual grant shall be made out of the local funds, which shall be not less 

 than three kroner per each hundred inhabitants within the district of each local 

 authority, according to the then last general census. 



The State shall make for a period of three years an annual grant of 30,000 kroner, of 

 which one-third may be expended on scientific experiments with preparations for the 

 extermination of rats, under the control of, and in consultation with, the Royal Veter- 

 inary and Agricultural College, while the remainder shall be expended on purchasing 

 preparations for the extermination of rats, which shall be either employed on or in 

 public lands or buildings, or out of which remainder grants may be made to associa- 

 tions toward the purchase of such preparations, in a manner to be defined hereafter 

 by the minister of the interior. 



2. Each local authority shall fix the amount of the premium (sec. 1) which shall 

 not, however, be more than 10 oere or less than 5 oere. 



Instructions for the collection and destruction of the rats killed will be issued by 

 the minister of the interior. 



3. The association cited in section 1 shall submit for the sanction by the minister 

 of the interior at the beginning of each year a plan showing the proposed expenditure, 

 and at the end of each year an account of the money expended by it, together with 

 statistics obtained by it showing the expenditure on premiums made by each local 

 authority. 



4. Where the proprietor or occupier of a messuage has participated in the grant to 

 be made by the State (sec. 1), he shall not deliver up, or cause to be delivered up, 

 for the purpose of obtaining a premium or premiums, rats killed within the said mes- 

 suage, until the expiration of one month from the employment of such preparation 

 for which such grant has been made. Any person acting in contravention of this 

 section shall be liable to a penalty of 100 to 500 kroner. 



5. Any person who preserves or breeds rats or imports rats from abroad, in order to 

 obtain premiums or enable another person to obtain them, shall be liable to a penalty 

 of 100 to 500 kroner, unless he is liable to a higher penalty under the common law. A 

 person who shall deliver up rats knowing them to have been preserved, bred, or im- 

 ported for the purpose of obtaining a premium shall be liable to the same penalties. 



All proceediugs under this act shall be taken in a public police court, the fines to 

 go to the special funds provided by this act, or where such fund does not exist, to the 

 public funds of such local authority. 



Any person delivering up rats to any other local authority than to that within the 

 district of which they have been caught shall be liable tb a penalty not exceeding 

 100 kroner. 



This act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed hereafter by the minister 

 of the interior and remain in operation for three years. 



In the session of the Riksdag immediately preceding the expiration of this law a 

 vote shall be taken for the renewal or revision of this law. 



The Government is authorized by royal rescript to make such alterations in the 

 operations of this law within the Faroe Islands as may bo considered most suitable, 

 having regard to the special conditions obtaining within those islands. 



Following the enactment of this law, there was issued h\' the 

 ministry of the interior May 1, 1907, a circular to the local authorities 

 on the subject. 



