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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 bis warrant 

 upon the State treasurer for that amount, in favor of the parties holding said certifi- 

 cates, 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 pre- 

 served in his office, and he shall present such certificates to the board of county com- 

 missioners, who shall audit the same in the manner now provided by law for auditing 

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

 such certificates have been audited and allowed in the manner herein provided. And 

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

 teenth day of July, A. D. 1877, 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 the State auditor shall ascertain the total amount of all claims and 

 certificates so filed, and if the same 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, being above the age of twenty-one years and under the age of sixty years, ex- 

 cepting 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 for the paying of bounties for the purpose of catching and destroy- 

 ing grasshoppers and their eggs, for 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 for 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 him the sum of one dollar per day for his 

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

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

 for the work required of him by said notice, and the commutation shall not be con- 

 sidered 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 by 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 misdemean- 

 ors. 



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, 

 the 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 from and after its passage. 



Approved March 1, 1877. 



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