68 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
in accordance with the provisions of this act, expend the funds appropriated 
er donated therefor; but no expenditure shall be made or liability incurred in 
excess of such appropriations and donations. 
Sec. 4. Cities and towns, by such public officer or board as they shall desig- 
nate or appoint, shall, under the advice and general direction of said superin- 
tendent, destroy the eggs, pups, and nests of the gypsy and brown-tail moths 
within their limits, except in parks and other property under the control of the 
Commonwealth, and except in private property, save as otherwise provided 
herein. When any city or town shall have expended within its limits city or 
town funds to an amount in excess of five thousand dollars in any one calendar 
year in suppressing gypsy or brown-tail moths the Commonwealth shall reim- 
burse such city or town to the extent of fifty per cent of such excess above said 
five thousand dollars. 
Cities or towns where one twenty-fifth of one per cent of the assessed valua- 
tion of real and personal property is less than five thousand dollars and where 
the assessed valuation of real and personal property is greater than six mil- 
lion dollars shall be reimbursed by the Commonwealth to the extent of eighty 
per cent of the amount expended by such cities or towns of city or town funds 
in suppressing the gypsy and brown-tail moths in any one calendar year | 
in excess of said one twenty-fifth of one per cent. 
In the case of towns where the assessed valuation of real and personal prop- 
erty is less than six million dollars, after they have expended in any one ¢al- 
endar year town funds to an amount equal to one twenty-fifth of one per cent 
of their assessed valuation of real and personal property, the Commonwealth 
shall expend within the limits of such towns, for the purpose of suppressing 
the gypsy and brown-tail moths, such an amount in addition as the superintend- 
ent, with the advice and consent of the governor, shall recommend. Disburse- 
ments made by said last-named towns in excess of said one twenty-fifth of 
one per cent shall be reimbursed by the Commonwealth every sixty 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 Common- 
wealth 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 auditor of the Common- 
wealth. 
For the purposes 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. When, in the opinion of the superintendent, any city or town is not 
expending a sufficient amount for the abatement of said nuisance, then the su- 
perintendent shal, 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: Provided, That no city or town where the assessed valuation of real and 
personal property exceeds six million dollars shall be required to expend dur- 
ing 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 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. 
