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lution please say aye ; opposed no. The ayes have it and it is so 

 ordered. 



Secretary Headlee: The second resolution offered by Mr. 

 Delaney, of Hudson: 



Whereas, An impression seems to prevail that the Act of Leg- 

 islature authorizing the appointment of, and defining the pov^rers 

 and duties of County Mosquito Extermination Commissions in this 

 State, known as Chapter 104, Laws of 1912, is not a successfully 

 workable Act, in that the results expected and hoped for by the 

 enforcement of the provisions of said Act have not materialized, 

 and it further appears that this innpression is not confined to our 

 own State, but reaches us from neighboring States, and through 

 such channels as should impress us with the advisability of dili- 

 gently and thoroughly inquiring as to the whys and wherefores 

 thereof; and 



Whereas, Nearly twenty years ago a small body, composed of 

 self-sacrificing and public-spirited men and diligent investigators, 

 banded together at the risk of being ridiculed and jeered at by the 

 press and people, for the object of ridding this great State of that 

 blighting menace which has held it down commercially and physi- 

 cally, as if under a pall from' time out of mind; and after several 

 years of unselfish and untiring persistency, succeeded in placing the 

 movement upon a firm foundation, and in order to insure the com- 

 plete success of their laudable object, placed upon the statute books 

 of the State, a law which we believe to be workable and all-suf- 

 ficient if impartially and uniformly enforced according to the re- 

 quirements manifested in each County of the State; and 



Whereas^ Some of the pioneers have been called to their re- 

 ward, and others have almost unanimously stepped aside, and in 

 so doing placed in the hands of new men, equally interested and 

 earnest, we hope, for safekeeping the institutions of their making — 

 let us not show ingratitude for such inheritances, but manifest our 

 unselfish and public-spirited purposes by safeguarding and per- 

 petuating them. 



Therefore, be it Resolved, That the Executive Committee of 

 this Association convene in executive session as soon hereafter, and 

 at such time and place as may be convenient for the purpose of 

 ascertaining, first, to what extent the law was enforced during 1918 

 throughout the state; the number of inhabitants sharing in the 



