I04 N. J. Mosquito Extermination Association 



spending of the money. If we contribute $i,ooo it goes for the 

 carrying on of the convention and all this publicity writing and 

 everything else, as far as the funds that are received there that are 

 regularly expended for expenses of running this organization. 



President Rider : But this fund that is provided by the state 

 goes to the department there and those provided for by the county 

 appropriation, the freeholders, are supposed to be handled by them. 



Dr. Brown : The receipts of the secretary-treasurer were 

 from the individual counties. Several thousand dollars of that 

 were spent for different things, for carrying on this convention and 

 expenses in general. Now if they increase our appropriation for 

 the individual counties they will have that much more money. Will 

 they devote it to a publicity campaign throughout the state? 



Mr. William Porter : May I rise to a question of privilege, to 

 ask a question? By what authority does the Executive Committee 

 assess local commissions for anything? I merely ask this to clear 

 the way. Now the commissions have always paid whatever the 

 Executive Committee of this association has requested, but we have 

 never known from what authority it has come, constitutional or 

 other. We will pay it just the same, as far as that goes. 



Now what we are trying to get at is this. If you have in your 

 constitution authorized your Executive Committee to do certain 

 things by way of assessment why may they not alsp do this other 

 item by assessment? That is what we are trying to get to, sir. 



Dr. Brown : This money is appropriated by the county at the 

 suggestion of the individual commissioners of a county. We make 

 out our budget, and from that budget we make payments for legiti- 

 mate expenses, and this is considered a legitimate expense by the 

 County of Bergen. They consider it $125 towards the work of the 

 association for the elimination of mosquitoes in this state. It is 

 considered a worthy proposition and it is considered legal. You can 

 send your chief of police to a general conference of police commissi- 

 oners throughout the state and pay his expense out of the public 

 funds by order of the common council or the health department or 

 on any other thing that is done in our state organization that says 

 where the money comes from, and it is considered legal. My ex- 

 penses for coming down here today are paid out of the funds that 

 the county contributed according to our budget, and this is also 

 considered fair and reasonable for the propagation of the work. 

 And I cannot see why any individual commission cannot feel as 

 though if this is good work, for the benefit of the public at large, 

 anybody should question it. 



