Proceedings of Seventh Annual Meeting 89 



define their powers and duties," approved March twenty-first, 

 one thousand nine hundred and twelve. 



BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly 

 of the State of New Jersey: 



1. Section 4 of the act of which this act is amendatory be 

 and the same is hereby amended so that it shall read as fol- 

 lows : 



4. Said commission shall, on or before the first day of No- 

 vember in each and every year, file with the director of the 

 State Experiment Station a detailed estimate of the moneys 

 required for the ensuing year, and plan of the work to be done 

 and the methods to be employed. The said director shall have 

 the power to approve, modify or alter the said estimates, plans 

 and methods, and the estimate, plan and method finally ap- 

 proved by him shall be by him forwarded to the Board of 

 Chosen Freeholders in each county on or before the first day 

 of December following its receipt. 



2. This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine 

 hundred and nineteen. 



Approved April 11, 1919. 



President Hudson: If there is no objection this report will be 

 received. 



Secretary Headlee: Last year we had considerable discussion 

 concerning the necessity for some mechanical contrivance for clean- 

 ing ditches. We have around 14,000,000 linear feet of 10 by 30- 

 inch ditch, or its equivalent, in the marshes now ; and for a period 

 of two or three years the feeling has been growing that the cost 

 of maintenance would become entirely too large unless some sort of 

 mechanical contrivance could be gotten up which would enable us ta 

 clean these ditches at a very low figure. And pursuant to that end 

 — I think it was entirely unofficial — after talking with several mem- 

 bers of different mosquito commissions, I took it on myself to ap- 

 point a committee of superintendents to look into the matter. This 

 committee consisted of Mr. Brooks, of Essex, Mr. Reiley, of At- 

 lantic, and Mr. Leslie, of Bergen. I think this committee has some- 

 thing fairly definite in the way of a report, and if the association 

 would care to hear the results of its labors, I think the chairman 

 will be glad to present the matter. 



President Hudson : We desire to hear from that committee. 



Mr. Brooks : I took up this matter of a ditch-cleaning machine 

 just a year ago and after working on it for a short time, it was 

 dropped until quite recently. 



Section 4 

 amended 



Plans and 



estimates 



nied 



Approval by 

 director of 

 experiment 

 station 



Act et¥ective 



