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

 of the time designated and the manner of procedure, in order to carry ont 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 enforced 

 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 penalties as 

 are provided by law in such cases. 



Sec. 7. The road-overseer 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 per- 

 form 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-operate 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. 



MINNESOTA. 



AN ACT to provide for the destruction of grasshoppersjand their eggs. 



Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Minnesota :j) 



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

 thereof, not otherwise appropriated, to any person or persons living 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-fifth 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 the 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 gallon 

 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 town- 

 ship 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 grass- 

 hoppers 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 faith- 

 ful discharge of his duties, which oath, together with the certificate of appointment, 

 shall be filed in the office of the county auditor, and he shall receive as compensation 

 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 suitable 

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

 scribe 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 afore- 

 said shall measure and immediately and effectually destroy the same, and keep an exact 

 account of all the grasshoppers and their eggs received by him and the name of the 

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

 and their eggs to the person delivering the same. Arjd he shall, at the end of each week 

 after commencing to 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 Octo- 

 ber next, make a report to the county auditor of all the grasshoppers and their eggs meas- 

 ured 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 appro- 

 priated 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 published 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 mismeasurement 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. 



