70 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
Real estate sold hereunder may be redeemed within the time, in the manner, 
and under the provisions of law, so far as they may be applicable, set forth in 
chapter thirteen of the Revised Laws for the redemption of land sold for taxes. 
A person aggrieved by such assessment may appeal to the superior court for 
the county in which the land lies, by entering a complaint in said court within 
thirty days after he has had actual notice of the assessment, which complaint 
shall be determined as other causes by the court without a jury. The complaint 
shall be heard at the first sitting of said court for trials without a jury after 
its entry; but the court may allow further time, or may advance the case for 
speedy trial, or may appoint an auditor as in other cases. The court may revise 
the assessment, may allow the recovery back of an amount wrongfully as- 
sessed which has been paid, may set aside, in a suit begun within three years 
from the date thereof, a collector’s sale made under an erroneous assessment, 
may award costs to either party and may render such judgment as justice and 
equity require. 
If, in the opinion of the assessors, the owner of an estate upon which an 
assessment as aforesaid has been made is, by reason of age, infirmity, or poverty, 
unable to pay the assessment, they may upon application abate the same. Hvery 
city or town in rendering an account to the State auditor as provided for in 
section four of this act shall deduct from such amount as it has expended in 
excess of one twenty-fifth of one per cent or of five thousand dollars as provided 
in said section, the total amount it has received for work performed under sec- 
tion six of this act during the term covered by the account: Provided, Such work 
was performed under such conditions as require re1mbursement in whole or in 
part by the State. 
Sec. 8. To meet the expenses incurred under authority of this act there shall 
be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, during the period 
up to and including May first, nineteen hundred and seven, the sum of three 
hundred thousand dollars. Of this amount seventy-five thousand dollars may be 
expended during the calendar year nineteen hundred and five; one hundred and 
fifty thousand dollars, and any unexpended balance of the previous year, may 
be expended during the calendar year nineteen hundred and six; and seventy-five 
thousand dollars, and any unexpended balance of the previous years, may be 
expended during the calendar year nineteen hundred and seven, up to and in- 
cluding May first. 
Sec. 9. An additional sum of ten thousand dollars in each of the years nine- 
teen hundred and five, nineteen hundred and six, and nineteen hundred and 
seven may, in the discretion of the State superintendent, be expended by him for 
experimenting with parasites or natural enemies for destroying said moths, and 
any unexpended balance of any year may be expended in the subsequent years. 
Sec. 10. Chapter two hundred and ten of the acts of the year eighteen hun- 
dred and ninety-one and sections one and two of chapter five hundred and forty- 
four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and section two 
of chapter fifty-seven of the acts of the year nineteen hundred and two are 
hereby repealed. 
Sec. 11. A person who wilfully resists or obstructs the superintendent or an 
official of a city or town, or a servant or agent duly employed, while lawfully 
engaged in the execution of the purposes of this act, shall forfeit a sum not ex- 
ceeding twenty-five dollars for each offence. 
Sec. 12. Valuations of real and personal property of the year nineteen hundred 
and four shall govern the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 13. This act shall take effect upon its passage. 
Approved May 8, 1905, 
