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to the already great obligation the State is under to its people to 

 provide at once for this development. 



I will presume to the extent of offering this suggestion to your 

 honorable body ; that you cause to be introduced in the present session 

 of the Legislature a joint resolution asking for the appointment of 

 a commission to make a complete, accurate and comprehensive 

 survey relative to mosquito extermination; and that this com- 

 mittee report to the next session of Legislature the cost of the work 

 and the shortest possible time necessary for its accomplishment, and 

 if the cost arrived at as the result of such a survey and estimate 

 should be $1,000,000 I would recommend an issue of bonds in 

 order that there should be no delay whatever in carrying out the 

 plans. If these apparent great benefits are within our grasp, the 

 sooner they are realized to their fullest extent the better it will be 

 for all of the people of the State. 



Secretary LIeadlee: I have listened to the presentation of the 

 Comptroller's ideas by Mr. Reilly with a great deal of pleasure. 

 I think he has made a suggestion there that is worthy of our most 

 earnest consideration. A plan of procedure has been proposed by a 

 member of the State administration. No plan of procedure promis- 

 ing immediate results has ever before been put before us. I would 

 like to know, sir, that if it is the sense of this association that the 

 plan suggested by the Comptroller of the State of New Jersey for 

 bringing about the suppression of the salt marsh mosquito within 

 a very limited time be given earnest consideration by the Execu- 

 tive Committee, and if the committee finds that it is good, that 

 that committee be instructed to go ahead and use every agency in 

 its power to see that the thing goes through. I would like to see 

 this plan presented tonight given a chance. I move that the execu- 

 tive committee be thus instructed. 



(The motion was seconded by Mr. Wright.) 



President Engle: You have heard Dr. Headlee's motion. Are 

 you ready for the question? 



Mr. Becker : I would like to ask first whether it is constitutional 

 for the State of New Jersey to bond itself for a million dollars. 



Mr. Reilly: It is constitutional on a referendum. 



Mr. Alfred Gaskill: Isn't it worthy of consideration whether 

 the sum involved is not altogether too small to bother with, going 

 through all the steps of a legislative enactment and a referendum 



