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Sec. S. The said StaK' Board of Agriculture may exercise all the duties and powers 

 hereiu couferied ui>ou said board by aud through its secretary aud such members of 

 said Board as said board uiay desiguate aud appoint to have iu charge in conjunc- 

 tion with its secretary in the execution of the purposes of this act. 



At a special meeting of the .State Board of Agriculture held April 2^, 1891, to con- 

 sider an act of the Massachusetts legislature entitled "An act to provide against 

 depredations by the insect known as the Ocnena dispar, or Gypsy Moth," and to pro- 

 vide for carrying out the provisions of said act, it was voted that William R. 

 Sessions, N. S. Shaler, and Francis H. Ax)pleton be a committee of the said board to 

 exercise all the duties and powers conferred by the above-mentioned act upon the 

 State Board of Agriculture. 



William R. Sessions, 



Secretary. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



1. All persons are forbidden by law to remove the Gypsy Moth, its nests, or eggs 

 from one place to another, in any city or town, and are requested to exercise care 

 against so transporting the Gypsy Moth on teams and carriages. 



2. All persons are forbidden to remove from the present locality in the towns of Med- 

 ford, Everett, Chelsea, Maiden, Melrose, and Arlington any hay, manure, wood, bark, 

 trees, rags, lumber, or shrubbery of any kind, without a written permit from the 

 department. All loads must be well covered with canvas covers. 



3. All persous are forbidden to, iu any way, imitate or erase the marks employed 

 by this department to designate trees, fences, or buildings which are infested or have 

 been cleaned. 



4. All vehicles leaving the above-named district may be stopped by the officers of 

 the department, and delayed until their contents have been sufficiently inspected to 

 determine the fact that they are not liable to transmit the eggs or any other form of 

 the insect. 



5. Xo person shall remove the bark from trees, nor attempt to scrape and clean 

 them, without first notitiying this department, and having said trees thoroughly in- 

 spected, and if found infested, cleaned under its direction. 



The eggs of the Gypsy Moth are frequently scattered abroad by scraping the frees 

 and by careless gathering ; therefore, all persons except the authorized agents of this 

 department are forbidden to remove the eggs of the Gypsy Moth from trees or other 

 objects upon which they may have been deposited. 



Real-estate owners and tenants are requested to destroy all other forms of the 

 moth which they may find upon their premises. 



6. All persons upon notice are required to confine their dogs while the agents of 

 this department are at work upon their premises, 



7. Owners and tenants are requested to gather and burn, before June 15, 1891, all 

 rubbish and useless material upon their premises that may provide nesting places for 

 the insect and to till with cement or other solid material all holes in trees upon their 

 premises. 



8. All persous are requested to keep the windows of their houses protectei by 

 screens during the summer months, as it is found the insect often lays its eggs in the 

 houses wherever it can gain admittance. 



9. All ]iersons having reasonable cause to believe that the eggs, caterpillars, or 

 other forms of the Gypsy Moth exist on or about their premises are earnestly re- 

 quested forthwith to notify E. H. Forbush, director, by letter addressed to his office 

 in Maiden, Mass. Information of their existence in isolated or unexpected localities 

 will be gratefully received, and all persons furnishing such information will receive 

 the thanks of the department. 



10. Notice is hereby given that it will, in some cases, be necessary to remove; boards 

 from feuces or buildings. In all cases they will eventually be replaced, if possible, 



