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and in case any persons shall fail to perform labor under this adt or paying the sum of 

 one dollar when so warned out, shall he adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- 

 viction shall be lined the sum of three dollars for each day so failing or refusiag, and 

 the moneys so collected shall be expended by the road-overseers in the destrucLion of 

 grasshoppers in their respective road-districts. 



Sec. 4. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, the road-overseer 

 is authorized to enter upon the premises of any person lying within 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, imme- 

 diately 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 grasshoppers, and. 

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



Sec. C. This act shall take effect 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 enacted hy 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 subse- 

 quent year thereafter, it shall be lawful 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 commirsioners 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 county commis- 

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

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

 senatorial district shall hold a joint 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 newspapers 

 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 bo 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 sena- 

 torial district, giving at least ten. days' notice of the same by publishing in the news- 

 papers 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 by other means, of the grasshoppers in the district; said notice to be 

 given to said overseers as soon as practicable after the same shall have been deter- 

 mined by the joint meeting. 



Sec. 6. Said road-overseers shall immediately notify the residents of his road-district 

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

 ions 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 en- 

 forced 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 pen- 

 alties 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-opereate together 

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



Sec. 9. 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 were combined in one. 



