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MUST RID THEIR 
PROPERTY OF MOTHS 
Notices Sent Out by Selectmen Notifying 
Manchester Property Owners That Lands 
Must Be Rid of Moths by Jan. 1 — The 
New Law. 
Notices have been sent out to every 
property owner in the town of Man- 
chester this week notifying them of 
the new statutes relative to the brown- 
tail and gypsy moths, and warning 
them to get to work at once on rid- 
ding their property of the pest before 
Jan. 1. The notice apparently means 
business, and if carried, out will mean 
that this section of the North Shore, 
at least, will be practically free from 
moths next year. The notice is as 
follows: 
“You are hereby required on or 
before January 1, 1906, to destroy the 
gypsy and brown-tail moths on your 
property (giving location). 
«This notification is in accordance 
with chapter 381, acts of 1905, which 
requires cities and towns to destroy 
the eggs, pupze and nests of the gypsy 
and brown-tail moths under heavy 
penalty for failure to comply with the 
provisions of the law. 
«Tf a property owner fails to destroy 
such eggs, pupze and nests, then the 
city or town is required to destroy the 
same, and the cost of the work, in 
whole or in part, according to the 
value of the land, is assessed upon 
and becomes a lien on the land. 
“The selectmen asks owners and 
tenants to co-operate with the town 
in its work on highways and other 
public grounds by doing effective work 
on their premises. Citizens who have 
‘cleaned their premises of the moths, 
but find their trees endangered by the 
neglect of owners of adjoining estates, 
should make complaint to the select- 
men. The infestation of a residential 
neighborhood by the neglect of a few 
will not be tolerated. 
“The eggs of the gypsy moth 
should be destroyed at once with 
creosote. They should never be 
scraped off the object on which they 
are laid. The nests of the brown-tail 
moth should be cut off the trees, care- 
fully collected and burned in a stove 
or furnace. 
“ Full instructions as to best meth- 
ods of work against the moths may be 
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“WILLIAM-E. KITFIELD, 
SPOWARD«sSs KNIGHT, 
«« Selectmen of Manchester.’ 
Following is text of the new law: 
‘“Seetion 6. The mayor of every 
city and the selectmen of every 
town shall, on or before the first 
day of November in each year, and 
at such other times as he or they 
shall see fit, or as the state superin- 
tendent may order, cause a notice 
to be sent to the owner or owners, 
so far as can be ascertained, of every 
parcel of land therein which is in- 
fested with said moths; or, if such 
notification appears to be imprac- 
ticable, then by posting such notice 
on said parcels of land, requiring 
that the eggs, pupae and nests. of 
said moths shall be destroyed with- 
in a time specified in the notice. 
“When, in the opinion of the 
mayor or selectmen, the cost of de- 
stroying such eggs, pupae and nests, 
on land contiguous and held under 
one ownership in a city or town, 
shall exceed one-half of one per 
cent. of the assessed value of said 
lands, then a part of said premises 
on which said eggs, pupae, or nests 
shall be destroyed may be desig- 
nated in such notice, and such re- 
quirement shall not apply to the re- 
mainder of said premises. The 
mayor or selectmen may designate 
the manner in which such shall be 
done, but all work done under this 
section shall be subject to the ap- 
proval of the state superintendent. 
“Tf the owner or owners shall fail 
to. destroy such eggs, pupae, or 
nests in accordance with the re- 
quirements of the said notice, then 
the city or town, acting by the pub- 
lic officer or board of such city or 
town designated or appointed as 
aforesaid, shall, subject to the ap- 
proval of the said superintendent, 
destroy the same, and the amount 
actually expended thereon, not ex- 
ceeding one-half of one per cent. of 
the assessed valuation of said lands, 
as heretofore specified in this sec- 
tion, shall be assessed upon said 
lands; and such an amount in addi- 
tion as shall be required shall be ap- 
portioned between the city or town 
and the commonwealth in accord- 
ance with the provisions of section 
four of this act. The amounts to be 
assessed upon private estates as 
herein provided shall be assessed 
and collected, and shall be a lien on 
said estates, in the same manner 
and with the same effect as is pro- 
vided in the case of assessments for 
street watering.” 
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