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SECTION THREE. 
If the state auditor shall find that the provisions of this 
act have been duly complied with, he shall issue to the several appli- 
cants entitled thereto his warrant upon the state treasurer for the 
bounty named in the first section, on or before the first Monday of 
October in each year. Provided, that if the aggregate of the bounty 
so applied for shall, in any one year, exceed twenty thousand dol- 
lars, it shall be the duty of the state auditor, on the first Monday of 
October, in such year, to equitably distribute twenty thousand dol- 
lars, and no greater sum, among the claimants who may be entitled 
to the aforesaid bounty, and his warrants for such pro rata shall re- 
lieve the state from further claims for such year. 
SECTION FOUR. 
This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pas- 
sage. 
PE ool Feb. 20, 1873. 
State oF MINNESOTA, 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. ; 
I hereby certify that the foregoing has been compared with the 
original on file in this office, and is a true copy thereof. 
Witness my hand, and the Great Seal of the State, this 12th day 
of May, A. D. 1873. 
S. P. JENNISON, 
Secretary of State. 
