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places, and such notice shall be accompanied by a copy of the map prepared as pre- 

 scribed 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 ownership, 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 ascertained, 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 larvae breed is a nuisance and 

 subject to abatement as such. Said notice shall further contain an order that the nui- 

 sance, 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 gov- 

 erning body to provide the money necessary to enable the board to abate such nuisance 

 in the manner provided 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 trans- 

 mitted to the board of health making the certificate, which said board shall thereupon 

 communicate such decision forthwith to the director of the agricultural 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 declared 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 to the board of health within whose 

 jurisdiction such mosquito-breeding places are situated, and said board shall there- 

 upon 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 o\ said director o\ 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 eases preferred in order. 



7. — In all cases where a municipality contributes fifty per centum or more o\ the 

 estimated cost of abolishing the breeding places for salt-marsh mosquitoes within its 

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