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THE GYPSY MOTH. 



Se€t. 3. Said state board of agriculture shall have full 

 authority to make from time to time such rules and regulations in 

 furtherance of the purposes of this act as it shall deem needful, 

 which rules and regulations shall be published in one or more 

 newspapers published in the county of Suffolk ; and copies of such 

 rules and regulations shall be posted in at least three public places 

 in each city or town in which said ocneria dispar or g^'psy moth 

 shall be found by said board to exist and a copy thereof shall be 

 filed with the city clerk of each such city and with the town clerk 

 of each such town ; and any person who shall knowingly violate 

 any of the provisions thereof shall be punished for each violation 

 by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars. 



Sect. 4. Said state board of agriculture shall keep a record of 

 its transactions and a full account of all its expenditures under this 

 act, and shall b}'' its chairman or secretary make report thereof, 

 with such recommendations and suggestions as said board shall 

 deem necessary, on or before the fourth Wednesday in January, to 

 the general court. 



Sect. 5. Said state board of agriculture shall estabUsh the rate 

 of compensation of any persons, servants or agents emplo3'ed by 

 it under this act. 



Sect. 6. Any person who shall purposely resist or obstruct said 

 state board of agriculture, or au}^ persons, servants or agents em- 

 ploj^ed by it under the provisions of this act, while engaged in the 

 execution of the purposes of this act, shall be punished by a fine 

 not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each offence. 



Sect. '7. It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to bring 

 the insect known as the ocneria dispar or gypsy moth, or its nests 

 or eggs, within this Commonwealth ; or for any person knowingly 

 to transport said insect, or its nests or eggs, from any town or city 

 to another town or city within this Commonwealth. Any person 

 who shall offend against the provisions of this section shall be pun- 

 ished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or by imprison- 

 ment in the house of correction not exceeding sixty days, or by 

 both such fine and imprisonment. 



Sect. 8. The said state board of agriculture may exercise all 

 the duties and powers herein conferred upon said board, by and 

 through its secretary and such members of said board as it may 

 designate and appoint to have in charge, in conjunction with its 

 secretary, the execution of the purposes of this act. 



Sect. 9. All moneys heretofore appropriated or authorized to 

 be expended under the provisions of chapters ninety-five and one 

 hundred and fifty-seven of the acts of the year eighteen hundred 

 and ninety or by any other act, and not heretofore expended, are 



