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(President Hunt takes the chair.) 



The President— -Now, ladies and gentlemen, it gives me 

 great pleasure to introduce another one of our mosquito ex- 

 terminators who has been in this movement from its start, and 

 upon whom a great deal of responsibility rests, in accordance 

 with the law of New Jersey, to see that things are carried out 

 in accordance to the law. I take great pleasure in introducing 

 Dr. Lipman, Director of the State Experiment Station of New 

 Jersey. 



Dr. Lipman — At the risk of boring you with repetition, I 

 should like to take a few minutes in reviewing the legislation 

 that pertains to mosquito control work in this State. Perhaps 

 something has been said about it this evening, but it might do no 

 harm to remind you that the law as passed several years ago 

 contains a clause which makes it mandatory upon the Boards of 

 Freeholders of the counties in' this State to appropriate funds 

 for mosquito extermination work, provided the Commission 

 sends in its budget to the Director of the Experiment Station 

 and he approves it. 



Immediately after the passage of that bill an attempt was 

 made to repeal it within the same session, and since then, I be- 

 lieve, with the exception of one year only, repealers or amend- 

 ments to this mosquito law have been introduced, and there is 

 one amendment pending now, I believe, in one of the commit- 

 tees of our Assembly. 



The efforts to modify the law have been due to very good 

 reasons, as one sees them from the standpoint of the Board of 

 Freeholders in this State. The law is mandatory. They, as 

 fiscal officers, have no choice, and must appropriate sums of 

 money which to them may seem excessive. 



They have to bear the brunt of criticism, because we know 

 that taxpayers in every county, when they have nothing else to 

 do, will complain of the extravagance of the 1 Boards of Free- 

 holders. It is a favorite pastime, I believe, with taxpayers, to 

 complain of the extravagance of administrative officers, and so 

 the Freeholders 'find themselves in the rather difficult position 



