﻿114 NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 



MINNESOTA.— An act to providk for the destructiox of grasshoppers ani> 



THEIR EGGS. 

 Be it enacted hy the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : 



Sectiox 1. There shall be paid by this State, out of any moneys in the treasury 

 thereof, not otlierwise appropriated, to any person or persons livino: within any of the 

 counties in said State afflicted by grasshoppers, the following bounties for catching and 

 destroying of the same, and the destruction of their eggs. 



Sec. 2. The sum of one dollar per bushel for grasshoppers caught previous to the 

 twenty-tifth day of May next. The sum of fifty cents per bushel from the said twenty- 

 fifth day of May to the tenth day of June. The sum of twenty-five cents per bushel 

 from the said tenth day of June to tlie first day of July, and twenty cents per bushel 

 from the said first day of July to the first day of October next. 



Sec. 3. There shall also be paid in the same manner, the sum of fifty cents per gal- 

 lon for any and all grasshopper eggs taken and destroyed by any person or persons. 



Sec. 4. There shall be appointed by the Governor a competent person in each 

 township in the several counties so afflicted by grasshoppers, who shall be a resident 

 of the township for which he shall be appointed, to receive, measure and destroy the 

 grasshoppers and their eggs delivered to him by any person or persons catching and 

 taking the same, which said person so appointed shall take and subscribe an oath for 

 the faithful discharge of his duties, which oath, together with the certificate of appoint- 

 ment, shall be filed in the oflice of the couiity auditor, and he shall receive as compen- 

 sation for his services such sum as the county commissioner may determine, to be paid out 

 of the funds of the county, and in case of necessity, when he cannot perform the duties 

 of his office, said measurer shall have authority and be empowered to appoint a suit- 

 able and competent person his assistant, which assistant shall be required to take and 

 subscribe the same oath and be subject to the same penalties as the said measurer. 



Sec. 5. The person receiving and measuring the grasshoppers and their eggs as 

 aforesaid, shall measure and immediately and effectually destroy the same, and keep 

 an exact account of all the grasshoppers and their eggs received by hlni and the names 

 of the persons delivering the same, and shall issue a certificate for the amount of grass- 

 hoppers and their eggs to the person delivering the same. And he shall, at the end of 

 each week after commencing lo receive and measure the same, and on the second day 

 of June, on the eleventh day of said month, on the second day of July, and on the 

 second day of October next, make a report to the county auditor of all the grasshop- 

 pers and their eggs measured by him, the number of certificates issued, and the names 

 of the persons to whom he issued the same ; and the county auditor shall examine the 

 same and file it in his office, which report shall be subject to public inspection; and 

 the county auditor shall, at the end of each week after he shall have received the first 

 of said reports, transmit a copy of the said reports, to the Governor, who shall, as soon 

 as the sum hereby appropriated shall have been expended in the payment of said 

 bounties, notify all persons interested therein of such fact by a publication of such 

 notice in some newspaper printed and pubUshed at the city of Saint Paul, in said 

 State of Minnesota, for three successive days. 



Sec. 6. For a failure on the part of said measurer to perform any of his duties 

 under this act, or for any raismeasurment of such grasshoppers and their eggs, he shall 

 be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be subject to pay a fine of not less than 

 ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for 

 a term of not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, in a suit or proceeding to be 

 prosecuted in the name of the State of Minnesota, in the same manner as is provided 

 by law in other cases of misdemeanor. 



Sec. 7. Upon the presentation of such certificate to the county auditor, he shall 

 issue a certificate to the person entitled thereto for the amount due him, (a form of 

 which certificate shall be furnished by the State Auditor.) and shall make an order 

 upon the State Auditor for the amount thereof, and the State Auditor shall draw his 

 warrant upon the State Treasurer for that amount, in favor of the parties holding said 

 certificates, which shall be paid by the State Treasurer on presentation : Provided, That 

 all certificates presented to the county auditor for payment shall be by him filed and 

 preserved in his office, and he shall present such certificates to the board of county 

 commissioners, who shall audit the same in the manner now provided by law for audit- 

 ing accounts against counties ; and no money shall be drawn from the State treasury 

 until such certitieates have been audited and allowed in the manner lierein provided. 

 And that no money shall be paid under the provisions of this act at any time prior to 

 the fifteenth day of Julv, A. D, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and that the 

 money hereby appropriated shall only apply to certificates duly made and filed with 

 the Auditor of State on or before said day ; that at the time after tlie State Auditor 

 shall ascertain the total amount of all claims and certificates so filed, and if the same 



