The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-01-18
Draft Of the Measure Which
Meets With Approval
From State Entomologist
Smith
WILL FREE STATE OF PESTS
AN APPROPRIATION OF s350oo0
WILL BE NECESSARY TO CAR
RY THE WAR on THE INSECTS
TO A SUCCESSFUL END.

abolishing mosquito breeding salt marsh
areas within the State, for assistance in
dealing with certain inland breeding
places. and appropriating money to carry
its provisions into effect, has been pre-
pared to meet the views of State Ento-
mologist John B. Smith. It is as fol-
lows
BE it enacted by the Senate and Gen
eral Assembly of the State Of New Jer-
sey:-
"One-It shall be sthe duty of the di-
rector of the State Experiment Station
by himself, or through an executives Of
fcer to be appointed by him. to carry out.
the provisions Of this act, to survey or
cause to be surveyed all the salt marsh
areas within the State in such order as
he may deem desirable. and to such ex-
tent as he may deem necessary, and he
shall prepare or cause to be prepared 4
map Of each section so surveyed, and
shah indicate thereon all the mosquito
breeding places found ON every such
area, together with memorandum of
the method to be adopted in dealing with
such mosquito breeding places, and the
probable cost of abolishing the same.
'Two-It shall be the further duty of
said director liz the manner above de-
scribed to survey, at the request of the
Board of Health of any city, town, town
chip, borough or village within the State.
to such extent as may be necessary, any
fresh water swamp or other territory
suspected of breeding malarial or other
mosquitoes within the jurisdiction of
such board, and he shall prepare a map
of such suspected area. locating upon it
such mosquito breeding places as may be
discovered, and shall report upon the
same as hereinafter provided in Section
of this act. Requests as hereinbefore
provided for in this section may be made
by any Board of Health within the State
upon its own motion, and must be made
upon the petition in writing of ten or
more freeholders residing within the jur-
isdiction of any such board.
Three-Wherever in the course Of
a survey made as prescribed in Section
/ of this act it is, found that within the
limits of any city, town, township hor-
ough or village there exist points or
places where salt marsh mosquitoes
breed, it shall be the duty of the director
aforesaid, through his executive officer.
to notify in writing, by personal service
upon some officer or member thereof,
the Board of Health within whose juris-
diction such breeding points or places oc-
cur, of the extent and location of such
breeding places, and such notice shall be
accompanied by a copy Of the map pre-
pared as prescribed in Section ! and of
the memorandum stating the. character
Of the work to be done and its probable
cost, also therein provided for
''It shall thereupon become the duty
of the said board, within twenty days
from the time at which notice is served
as aforesaid, to investigate the owner
Ship of the territory on which the breed
ing places occur, and to notify the owner
or owners of such lands in such manner
as other notices Of such boards are
served, of the facts set out in the COM
munication from the director, and of the
further fact that under Chapter 6S Of the
laws of 1887, as amended in Chapter 119
of the laws of 1904, any water in which
mosquito larvae breed is nuisance and
subject to abatement as such.
"Said notice shall further contain an
order that the nuisance consisting Of
mosquito breeding pools be abated with
in a period to be stated, and which shah
not be more than sixty days from the
date of said notice. failing which the
board would proceed TO abate in accord
ance with the act and its amendments
above cited.
"Four-In case any owner Of salt
marsh lands on which mosquito breed
ing places occur and upon whom notice
has been served as above set out, fails
or negleets to comply with the order Of
the board within the time limited there
in. it shall be the duty of said board to
proceed to abate under the powers given
in Sections 13 and IA Of the act and its
amendments cited in the preceding sec
ton, or, in case this is deemed inexpe
dient, t shall certify to the Common
Council, or other governing body Of the
city, town, township borough or village,
the fact that such an order has been