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the expenditure and compared them with the bills as laid before 

 us as paid and find them to be also true. 



Concerning the matter of outstanding bills, we have no evidence 

 excepting that presented, of course, by your Secretary-Treasurer. 

 Nevertheless we have gone over the additions and the totals and 

 find them correct, and we so report. 



President Engle: You have heard the report of the Auditing 

 Committee. What is your pleasure? 



A Member: I move it be accepted and filed. 



(The motion was seconded.) 



President Engle: It is moved and seconded that the report 

 be accepted and filed. All in favor signify by saying aye ; opposed 

 no. It is carried. 



Mr. Porter: And all those papers are signed as approved. 



President Engle: As suggested at the last meeting, a Publicity 

 Comjmittee was appointed, and that committee were Dr. Headlee, 

 Mr. Cushing, Mr. Gaskill, Mr. Howell, Mr. Manchee and Mr. 

 Myers. They have had several meetings, the result of which will be 

 embodied in a report presented by Dr. Headlee, who has acted 

 as Secretary of that committee at each of its meetings. 



(Report read by Secretary Headlee.) 



Report of the Publicity Committee. 

 The first meeting of the Committee on Publicity was held in 

 Trenton on May 27, 1918. At this meeting it was developed that 

 in the minds of the membership the following conditions existed: 



1. The people of the State of New Jersey are not sufficiently 

 familiar with the nature and the results of mosquito extermina- 

 tion work to support appropriations necessary to complete the 

 initial work on the salt marshes. 



2. The great problem facing mosquito exterminators in the 

 State is the education of the general population along these lines 

 to a point where such appropriation will be adequately supported. 



3. That the present great war in which the country is engaged 

 instead of forbidding the effort of ridding the State of mosquitoes, 

 seems rather to make it a more pressing duty than ever before, 

 because^ there have been located within the State's boundaries a 

 large number of shipyards, loading plants, testing plants, munitions 

 plants, ordnance depots, and military and naval camps, which must 



