410 REPORT UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION. 



thereafter, whereupon said clerk shall administer to such person the following oath or 

 affirma'iiou : You do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that the eggs (or 

 grasshoppers, as the case may be,) produced by you, were taken and gathered by you, 

 or by person or x^ersons in your employ, or under your control, and within this county 

 and State. 



Sec. 4. The clerk shall forthwith destroy said eggs by burning the same and give to 

 the person proving up the same, under his hand and seal, a certificate setting forth in 

 a plain handwriting, without interlineation, the amount of eggs or grasshoppers pro- 

 duced and destroyed by him, and the name and residence of such person producing 

 the same, which certificate shall be in the following form : 



State of Missouri, 



County of : 



This is to certify that , in the county of , A. B. did this day prove before 



me that he had gathered, or caused to be gathered, of eggs, grasshoppers, 



and is entitled to the sum of dollars, and cents. 



Given under my hand and seal of my ofiSce this day of A. D. 18 — . 



: , A. B., 



Clerh County Court. 



Which certificate shall be received and taken by ^he collector of revenue of the 

 county in which the same was given, and such collector shall be allowed pay out of 

 the county and State treasury one-half from each. 



Sec. 5. Such clerk shall keep a register of all such certificates given by him, in a 

 book which he shall keep for that purpose, in which he shall note down every ceititl- 

 cate granted by him, the number and amount, and to whom granted, and transmit a 

 certified copy of such register, under the seal of the court, to the treasurer of the 

 State, who shall not allow and pay any certificate which does not correspond with such 

 register. 



Sec. 6. Such clerk shall receive for his services as aforesaid one dollar for such cer- 

 tified copy of the register, and the regular fee for the certificate acd seal, and ten cents 

 for each certificate granted under this act, all to be paid out of the treasury of his 

 county. 



Sec. 7. As the object of this act is the rapid destruction of the locust the ensuing 

 spring, it shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 



Approved February 23, 1677. 



This act is drawn up alter the form recommended in Mr. Eiley's eighth 

 report, and reprinted in the Omaha pamphlet. Section 3, requiring 

 persons claiming bounty to carry from all parts of the county the eggs 

 or young insects collected, is defective, as those living near the county 

 seat will have most advantage and inducement. It would be better to 

 empower the township trustee or the street comnaissioner to receive and 

 measure the eggs or youn g insects, and to issue certifiates setting forth 

 the number of bushels destroyed, the certificates to be filed with the 

 county clerk. 



KANSAS. 



An Act to provide for the destruction of grasshoppers, and to punish for violation of this act. 



Be it enacted hy the legislature of the State of Kansas : 



Section 1. That the township trustees of the different townships, and the mayors 

 of cities which are not included in any township of any county within this State, are 

 hereby authorized, and it is made their duty when so requested in writing by fifteen 

 of the legal voters of the township or city, to issue orders to the road-overseers of the 

 different road-districts within their respective townships or cities, to warn out all able- 

 bodiid males between the ages of twelve and fifty years within their respective dis- 

 tricts, for the purpose of destroying locusts or migratory insects. 



Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of road-overseers, immediately after receiving said orders, 

 to'proceed at once to warn out all persons liable under section 1 of this act, giving 

 notice of the time and place of meeting, and the tools to be used, and the kind of work 

 expected to be performed, and all work shall be done and performed under the direc- 

 tion of the road-overseers. 



Sec. 3. Any persons over eighteen years of age warned out as is provided in this act, 

 may pay the road -overseer the sum of one dollar per day for the time so warned out, 



