88 N. J. Mosquito Extermination Association 



President Hudson : We will now have the report of the Legisla- 

 tive Committee. 



(The report of the Legislative Committee was read by Mr. Engle). 



This committee consisting of Robert F. Engle, William Delaney and John 

 T. Pollitt appointed in accordance with a resolution offered at the Sixth An- 

 nual Convention of the New Jesey Mosquito Extermination Association by 

 Mr. Delaney and by that association adopted, caused to be presented to the 

 Legislature of 1919 a bill intended to change the time when the annual county 

 mosquito extermination commission statements are submitted to the director 

 of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Stations from April first to No- 

 vember first, and intended to change the time when the approved statements 

 are to be submitted to the Freeholders from May first to December first. 



This bill was duly passed and has become a part of the county mosquito 

 extermination laws of the state. Under its terms all statements of plans, 

 methods and estimates for the ensuing year are submitted to the director of 

 the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Stations on or before the first day 

 of November and the approved statements of plans, methods and estimates 

 are by him submitted to the Freeholders on or before the first day of Decem- 

 ber following. 



We have now had one year's experience with this change in method and 

 find it almost, if not quite, universally more satisfactory than the old scheme. 

 It has the great advantage of placing the requirements of the county mosquito 

 extermination commissions before the Boards of Freeholders one month be- 

 fore their county budgets have to be adopted even tentatively. 



That portion of the above-referred-to resolution which requested the change 

 of time when the county mosquito extermination commission reports were 

 due to the Board of Freeholders and the director of the New Jersey Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Stations, from January first to November first, fell by 

 the wayside. This omission seems to have been a matter of oversight. 



After thinking the matter over the committee is inclined to believe that 

 the present date for the submission of county mosquito extermination com- 

 mission reports to the director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment 

 Stations and the county boards of freeholders is pretty nearly right, because, 

 to a considerable extent at least, the said director must depend upon the 

 statements in these reports for his data in passing upon the statements of 

 plans, methods and estimates for the ensuing year, which are submitted under 

 the terms of the amended act on the same date. 



Further, in accordance with the above-referred-to resolution, the results of 

 the committee's action have been communicated to the secretary of the asso- 

 ciation and by him have been transmitted to the various mosquito commis- 

 .sions of the state. 



The amended act is attached hereto. 



CHAPTER 123, LAWS OF 1919 



An Act to amend an act entitled "An act for the establish- 

 ment of county mosquito extermination commissions and to 



