Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-05

of the public streets and parks. Said
limit to extend to the distance of sixty
feet from the center of the public streets
or highways and include all trees and
shrubbery 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 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 he done and shall
charge the actual expense of the same
to said city or town; such amount to be
collected as state tax and credited TO
this appropriation.
Whenever a city, town or plantation is
notified by the commissioner of agricul-
ture of the presence of the broWn-tail
moth or 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 plantation
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, 10 an
amount however not exceeding one per
cent of the assessed valuation OF the
above named property. The amount 50
assessed snail 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 rein-
bursed by the commissioner of agrlcul-
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.
necessary to carry out the provisions OF
this section in the same manner in which
money is raised for other necessary
municipal purposes.
Section B. Sections eight and nine of
chapter fifteen are hereby repealed.
Section g. 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 oatn
to the commissioner of agriculture its
itemiZed receipted accounts and vouchers
showing the amounts expended by 1t 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 II. When 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
gypsv moth, in any of their stages, as
herein provided. it shall rec .si;e- REM
Cities or towns having a total assessed
valuation of seven hundred ana my
thousand dollars or less shall receive such
sums as NAV in the judgment Of the COM
missioner of agriculture have been neces-
sariiy expended by them i'll 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
seventv-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-twentleth OF one
per cent of such valuation.
Cities or towns having d total assessed
valuation of more than one mutton llFe
hundred thousand dollars Shal receive
fifty per cent of such sums as may IN
the Judgment of the commissioner or
agriculture have been expended by them
in excess of ono-twentIeth oil one per
cent of such valuation.
No city or town shall be entitled to
reimbursement from the state as afor8-
said until it shall have submitted under
oath to the commissioner of agriculture
its itemized, receipted accounts ana
vouchers showing the amounts expended
by it in the process of destFoE ing we
above named pests according to the pro
visions of this act This act applies only
to the actual expenditure of funds TOT me
determination of the above named peStS
in the above named territory, hamelF;
within the limits of public streets ana
parks and does not apply to the bounty
SYSTEM 50 called.
section T. Section twelve of said chap
te~ fifteen is hereby amended by prehXlng
the following: In view OF the possibliltN
of spreading the gypsy moth by careless
parties who do not understand me sr ,,,H,A
danger involved. the entire work or sup,
pressing this pest in all its forms Shall
be done under the direct charge OF inc
commissioner Of agricultnte ana Is 80
cor Sidercd in this act, so that Sald sec
zion as amended shall read as follows:
Section IL. In view OF the poSsiniulE
of spreading the gypsy moth oE catcltHS
parties who do not understand the grave
danger involved. the entire work OF sup
pressing this pest i'll all its forms SnaIl
he done under the direct charg" OF the
commissioner of agriculture and Is so
considered in this act
Whenever any city or town Shall ap,
propriate or raise a sum OF money ana
shall pay the same over to the Slate
treasury for the purpose of externlnatlllG
the gypsy moth within its borders the
commissioner Of agriculture snail cause
such amount to be expended in such cry
or town as herein provided. together with
an equivalent amount from the appro-
priation hereafter made. PROVIDED, now
ever. if il hc found by the commissioner
Of agriculture unnecessary or lnprach-
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 rein-
btrsed to such city or town.
Section s Trial justices ana fnnnicipai
courts are vested with the original JurlS.
diction. concurrent with the supreme ana
snperior courts to try. and. upon couVic-
ton. to punish. for offenses against me
provisions of this act.
Section q Section thirteen or Sald
chapter thirteen is hereby amended ny
striking out all of said section and insert
ms. in place thereof the following;
Section l3 For the purpose OF carrying
;pt, affeCt the provisions of THIS act tfeFe