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arrangements and for the liberal terms and rates they have made. 

 I make that as a motion. 



(This motion was duly seconded and carried.) 



The President — We will ask Mr. Dobbins if he will make a 

 brief report for the Legislative Committee. 



Mr. Dobbins — Why, in reference to legislation, gentlemen, 

 of course you are all familiar with the bill that was introduced 

 in the Legislature. It is still in Committee. The chairman in- 

 formed me if the Committee held a hearine on the bill this 

 Association would have due notice of that fact. There may be 

 a hearing at any time and I hope that each county, especially 

 if it is doing mosquito extermination work, will hold itself in 

 readiness to take a delegation to Trenton on the shortest notice 

 possible. It may be that we will have to 1 summon our forces in 

 two or three days. The present session of the Legislature will 

 adjourn on March sixteenth this year, and that is the only bill 

 that I know of in the present session affecting the mosquito 

 work of the State. I might say that the State Experimental 

 Station has a request before the Appropriation Committee for 

 mosquito work, and something should be done to see that the 

 appropriation is made. Without such action appropriations are 

 always uncertain. 



The President — Gentlemen, you have heard the report of 

 your Committee on Legislation. What action will you take ? 



Mr. Engle^ — I move the report be received. 



(This motion was duly seconded and carried.) 



The President — I will ask Mr. Dobbins to give the Com- 

 mittee on Publicity report. 



Mr. Dobbins — In the matter of publicity, gentlemen, the Com- 

 mittee held two meetings, and it was decided to engage a news- 

 paper man to do the publicity work of this convention at a cost 

 of one hundred dollars. He has sent in his bill to this conven- 

 tion along with copies of the article that he forwarded out to 

 all the papers of the State, and Philadelphia and New York at 

 different times, and we thought he did his work quite well. I 



