The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-04-08

stages as may be found within the limits
OF the public streets and parks. Said
limit to extend to the distance of sixty
or highways and include all trees and
shrubbrry growing thereon. Should such
municipal officers neglect or fail within
a reasonable time to perform the duties
herein imposed upon them, then the COM
missioner of agriculture shall order such
city, town or plantation to proceed to
destroy the above named insects in ac
cordance with methods to be prescribed
by him and to spend such an amount In
the above named work as he shall deem
necessary. If the amount thus expended
during one full year shall exceed one
twentieth of one per cent of the tax
valuation of said city or town, then the
city or town shall be reimbursed accord
ing to section eleven.
If any city, town or plantation shall
fail to comply with the directions of said
commissioner in the performance of said
work and the expenditure of such money
within the time specified by him, then
the commissioner of agriculture shall
cause the said work to be done and shall
charge the actual expense of the same
to said city or town; such amount to be
collected as a state tax and credited to
this appropriation
Whenever city, town or plantation Is
notified by the commissioner of asrcul-
ture of the presence of the broWn-tail
moth OF San Jose scale. the mayor OF
each city, the selectmen of each town
and the assessors of each plantation
shall notify each owner of real estate
located therein, requiring him to de-
stroy the above named insects in his
orchard and shade trees within a specified
time. If the owner fails to destroy the
above named insects before the specified
time, then the city, town or planta ton
subject to the approval of the commits
sioner of agriculture, shall destroy them,
and shall assess upon such aforesaid real
estate the actual cost of so doing, to an
amount, however, not exceeding one per
cent of the assessed valuation of the
above named property. The amount so
assessed shall be collected in the form of
tax. If the expense incurred by the
town in the performance of the above
named duties Shall exceed the last above
named amount the town shall be reim-
bursed by the commissioner of agricul-
ture by an amount equal to this excess,
providing the work has been done ac-
cording to the provisions of this act.
1t shall be the duty of the commits
sioner of agriculture to disseminate in
formation concerning the brown-tail ana
gypsy moths. San Jose scale and other
injurious insects.
Cities and towns may raise the sums
necessary to carry out the provisions of
this section in the same manner in which
money is raised for other necessary
municipal purposes
Section s Sections eight and nine of
chapter fifteen are hereby repealed.
Section 6. SECTION eleven is hereby
amended by striking out all beyond line
twenty-five and inserting the following:
No city or town shall be entitled to re-
endorsement from the state as aforesaid
until it shall have submitted. under oath,
to the commissioner of agriculture Its
itemiZed, receipted accounts and vouchers
showing the amounts expended by it in
the process of destroying the above
named pests according to the provisions
of this act. This act recognizes only the
actual expenditure of funds for the eX-
termination Of the above named pests in
the above named territory, within the
limits of the public streets and parks,
and does not recognize the bounty system,
so called SO that said section as amended
shall read as follows:
Section IL. W hen any city or town
shall have expended in any one calendar
year, within its limits, its funds to an
amount equal to one-tWentieth of one per
cent of its assessed valuation of the
previous year in destroying or suppress
ing, the broWn-tail moth, San Jose scale
and similar insects, but not including the
gypsy moth, in any of their stages, as
herein provided. it shall receive reim-
bursement from the state as follows:
Cities or towns having a total assessed
valuation of seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars or less shall receive such
sums as may in the judgment of the COM
missioner of agriculture have been neces
sarily expended by them in excess of one
twentieth of one per cent of such assessed
valuation
Cities and towns having total assessed
valuation of more than seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars and not exceeding
one million five hundred thousand dol
lars assessed valuation, shall receive
seventy-five per cent of such sum as
may in the judgment Of the commissioner
of agriculture have been expended by
them in excess of one-tWentieth of one
per cent of such valuation
Cities or towns having total assessed
valuation of more than one million five
INl1 "a nJyyn
fifty per cent of such sums as may in
the judgment of the commissioner Of
agriculture have been expended by them
in excess of one-twentieth of one per
cent of such valuation.
No city or town shall be entitled to
reimbursement from the state as afore-
said until it shall have submitted, under
oath, to the commissioner of agriculture
its itemized, receipted accounts and
vouchers showing the amounts expended
by II in the process of destroying the
above named pests according to the pro-
visions of this act This act applies only
to the actual expenditure of funds for the
determination of the above named pests
in the above named territory, namely
within the limits of public streets and
parks and does not apply to the bounty
Section {. Section twelve of said chap
ter fifteen is hereby amended by prehMrs
the following; In view of the possibility
of spreading the gypsy moth by careless
parties who do not understand the grave
danger involved the entire work of sup
pressing this pest in all its forms shall
be done under the direct charge of the
commissioner of agriculture and is so
considered in this act so that said sec
ton as amended shall read as follows:
Section IL In view of the possibility
of spreading the gypsy moth by. careless
parties who do not understand the grave
danger involved, the entire work of sup
pressing this pest in all its forms shall
be done under the direct charge Of the
commissioner OF agriculture and is SO
considered in this act.
Whenever any city or town shall APP
propriate or raise a sum Of money and
Shall pay the same over to the state
treasury for the purpose Of exterminating
the gypsy moth within its borders, the
commissioner of agriculture shall cause
such amount to be eXpe nded in such city
or town as herein provided, together with
an equivalent amount from the appro-
priation hereafter made. Provided, how
ever, If it be found by the commissioner
of agriculture unnecessary or 1mpracu-
cable to eXpend such entire amount dur
ing the year following such payment to
the state treasurer one-half the amount
so remaining unexpended shall be reim-
bursed to such city or town.
Section s. Trial justices and municipal
courts are vested with the original juris-
diction, concurrent with the supreme and
superior courts to try. and, upon convic-
ton, to punish, for offenses against the
provisions Of this act.
Section g. Section thirteen of said
chapter thirteen is hereby amended by
striking out all of said section and insert
y,f In, rliap oil