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shall exceed in amount the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, then the said claims 

 shall be paid pro rata, and no other or greater amount than said sum of one hundred 

 thousand dollars shall ever be paid under the provisions of this act : And provided 

 further. That if the amount hereby appropriated is not sufficient to pay the certificates 

 in full, the balance shall be paid by the counties respectively, according to the amount 

 due on said certificates as issued by such county. 



Sec. 8. Every male inhabitant of the several townships in the said afflicted coun- 

 ties, beinor above the age of twenty-one years and under the age of sixty years, 

 excepting paupers, idiots and lunatics, shall be assessed by the board of supervisors of 

 said township to work one day in each week in said township, during the period here- 

 inbefore mentioned, lor the paying of bounties for the purpose of catching and destroy- 

 ing grasshoppers and their eggs', lor five weeks from the time said grasshoppers shall 

 become large enough to be taken; and the amount of work to be so assessed shall not 

 exceed five days in all. 



Sec. 9. The supervisors aforesaid shall make a list of the names of all persons 

 against whom said tax shall have been assessed, and place in a column opposite each 

 name on said list, the amount of labor assessed against such person, and shall direct 

 the town clerk to make a certified copy of each list, after which the town clerk shall 

 deliver the several copies to the respective overseers of the highways of said town- 

 ships. 



Sec. 10. The overseers of highways shall give at least two days' notice to all per- 

 sons assessed to work as aforesaid, living within the limits of their respective districts, 

 of the time and places where and when they are to appear for that purpose, and with 

 what implements. 



Sec. 11. Every person liable to work, as provided lor in this act, may commute for 

 the same at the rate of one dollar per day, in which case such commutation money 

 shall be paid to the chairman of the board of supervisors, to be applied and expended 

 by him for the destruction of grasshoppers and their eggs, and he shall be authorized 

 and required to hire and engage some suitable and efficient person to work in the place 

 of said person so commuting, and to pay them the sum of one dollar per day for his 

 services ; and every person intending to commute for his assessment shall, within five 

 days after he is notified to appear and work as aforesaid, pay the commutation money 

 for the work required of hiui by said notice, and the commutation shall not be consid- 

 ered as made until such money is paid. 



Sec. 12. Every person so assessed and notified, who shall willfully neglect or 

 refuse to commute or work as provided by this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to pay a fine of not less than two dollars nor 

 more than ten dollars, or bv imprisonment in the county jail not more than ten days, 

 or both, in the discretion of the court, in a suit to be prosecuted in the name of the 

 State of Minnesota, in the same manner as is provided by law for prosecutions of mis- 

 demeanors. 



Sec, 13. There shall be appropriated, out of any moneys in the treasury of this 

 State, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of 

 this act, tiie sum of one hundred thousand dollars. 



Sec. 14. The board of county commissioners of any county in this State afflicted 

 by grasshoppers, shall have the right, if, in their judgment they see fit, to employ one 

 or more persons in each township in said county with such implements or mechanical 

 contrivances as may prove most efficient to destroy the grasshoppers, from the first 

 day of April to the first day of August in each year, paying such persons either by the 

 day or a specified sum for the amount captured and destroyed. The compensation of 

 such person shall be paid out of the general fund of the county : Provided further. 

 That parties employed and paid by the county commissioners shall not receive any 

 other or further compensation under the provisions of this act. 



Sec. 15. This act shall take effect and be in force fiom and after its passage. 



Approved March 1, 1877. 



More complicated than the others, this Minnesota act has certain 

 special features which are intended to meet the peculiar emergency 

 in that State, Yet I do not think the act is as clear or will prove as 

 effectual as the first Kansas act. In addition to this bounty act, the 

 Minnesota Legislature passed another appropriating $75,000 for the 

 purchase and distribution of seed grain to the sufferers from locust 

 injuries. 



