32 FIELD WOKK AGAINST GIPSY AND BROWN-TAIL MOTHS. 



salary. The governor may, with the consent of the council, remove said superintend- 

 ent at any time for such cause as he shall deem sufficient. In case of the death, 

 removal, or resignation of the superintendent the governor shall forthwith appoint a 

 successor. On or before the third Wednesday in January in each year the superin- 

 tendent shall make a report of his proceedings to the general court, which shall be a 

 public document and shall be printed. Said report shall separate so far as is practi- 

 cable the expenditures on work against the gypsy moth from those on work against 

 the brown tail moth in each city and town. 



Sec. 3. [As amended by section 1, chapter 268, acts of 1906.] The said superin- 

 tendent shall act for the Commonwealth in suppressing said moths as public nuisances, 

 in accordance with the provisions of this act. For this purpose he shall establish an 

 office and keep a record of his doings and of his receipts and expenditures, and may, 

 subject to the approval of the governor, make rules and regulations governing all 

 operations by cities, towns or individuals under this act. He may employ such 

 clerks, assistants and agents, including expert advisers and inspectors, as he may 

 deem necessary and as shall be approved by the governor. He may make contracts 

 on behalf of the Commonwealth; may act in cooperation with any person, persons, 

 corporation, or corporations, including other States, the United States, or foreign gov- 

 ernments; may conduct investigations and accumulate and distribute information 

 concerning said moths; may devise, use and require all other lawful means of sup- 

 pressing or preventing said moths; may lease real estate when he deems it necessary, 

 and, with the approval of the board in charge, may use any real or personal property 

 of the Commonwealth; may at all times enter upon the land of the Commonwealth 

 or of a municipality, corporation, or other owner or owners, and may use all reasonable 

 means in carrying out the purposes of this act; and, in the undertakings aforesaid, may, 

 in accordance with the provisions of this act, expend the funds appropriated or donated 

 therefor; but no expenditure shall be made or liability incurred in excess of such 

 appropriations and donations. 



Sec 4. [As amended by section 2, chapter 268, acts of 1906.] Cities and towns by 

 such public officer or board as they shall designate or appoint, shall, under the advice 

 and general direction of said superintendent, destroy the eggs, caterpillars, pupae, 

 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 prop- 

 erty, 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 reimburse 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 valuation 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 million 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 property is 

 less than six million dollars, after they have expended in any one calendar 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 superintendent with the advice and consent of the governor shall 

 recommend. Disbursements 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 



