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refusing-, and the moneys so collected shall be expended by the road overseer in the 

 destruction of grasshoppers in their respective road districts. 



Sec. 4. For the purpose of carryhig out the provisions of this act the road over- 

 seer is authorized to enter upon the premises of any person lying withiu the township 

 ■where such order of the township trustee is in force, with a sufficient number of hands 

 and teams to perform such labor as he may deem necessary for the public good. 



Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 immediately after the passage of this act, to compile in circular form all information 

 relating to the manner and means heretofore used for the extermination of grasshop- 

 pers, and send at least ten copies of the same to each township trustee in the State. 



Sec. G. This act shall take eflect and be in force from and after its publication 

 once in the Commonwealth. 



Approved March 6, 1877. 



AN Act providing for a concert of action by senatorial districts for the 



DESTRUCTION OF GRASSHOPPERS. 



Be it enacied by the Legislature of the State of Kansas : 



Section 1. That in any senatorial district in the State of Kansas, where trouble 

 is anticipated from the ravages of young grasshoppers, in the year 1877, and any sub- 

 sequent year thereafter, it shall be lawtul for the counties in said senatorial district to 

 co-operate together in the way and manner herein provided, for the destruction of the 

 same. 



Sec. 2. The chairman of the board of county commissioners in the county having 

 the largest number of inhabitants in a senatorial district, where two or more counties 

 form said district, may notify the chairman of each of the boards of cojnty commis- 

 sioners of the remaining counties in said district, of the time and place when the chair- 

 men ot the several boards of commissioners of the respective counties forming said 

 senatorial district shall hold ajoint meeting. 



Sec. 3. At such meeting two of their number shall be chosen to act as chairman 

 and secretary, and the proceedings of the meeting shall be published in all the news- 

 papers printed in the senatorial district. 



Sec. 4. Said meeting shall designate the manner of procedure by road overseers, 

 and what day or days the young grasshoppers should be driven from the cultivated 

 land on the unburnt prairie or places of destruction, and shall also designate on what 

 day or days the grasshoppers shall be destroyed, by burning or otherwise, in said 

 senatorial district, giving at least ten days' notice of the same by publishing in the 

 newspapers of the said district. 



Sec. 5. The board of commissioners of each county shall notify the road overseers 

 of said county of the time fixed upon by the joint meeting for the driving and burning, 

 or destroying bj' other means, of the grasshoppers in the district; said notice to be 

 given to said overseers as soon as practicable afcer the same shall have been determined 

 by the joint meeting. 



Sec 6. Said road overseer shall immediately notify the residents of his road dis- 

 trict of the time designated and the manner of procedure, in order to carry out the 

 provisions of this act. He shall also specify what tools or implements will be required 

 of each resident in performing the labor required of him ; and such notice may be 

 enforced the same as in the acts authorizing road overseers to warn out the residents 

 to perform road labor ; and a refusal shall subject such persons refusing to the same 

 penalties as are provided by law in such cases. 



Sec. 7. The road overseers shall direct the manner of performing the labor, and 

 have the supervision of the same, and shall keep a list of the names of those who shall 

 perform labor, and shall certify the number of days' work performed by each, and 

 shall place such certified list in the possession of the board of county commissioners of 

 his county. 



Sec 8. It shall be lawful for two or more senatorial districts to co-operate together 

 under the provisous of this act, on a basis of action which they may agree upon. 



Sec. 0. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in 

 the daily Commonwealth. 



Approved March 7, 1877. 



Both these acts look to compulsory work and concert of action, 



and in these respects are preferable to bounty acts, and will, without 



doubt, be productive of more good to the community at less expense 



to the State. The objects of the two acts should, I think, have been 



combined in one. 



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