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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, 1877. 



IKANSAS. 

 AN ACT to provide for the destruction of grasshoppers and to punish for violation of this act. 



Be it enacted by thejlegislature of the State of Kansas : 



Section I. 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 oi 

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

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

 bodied males between tbe 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 or- 

 ders, to proceed at once to warn out all persons liable under section one 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 

 direction 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, and in case any person shall fail to perform labor under this act or paying the 

 sum of one dollar when so warned out, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 aud on conviction shall be fined the sum of three dollars for each day so failing or 

 refusing, and the moneys so collected shall be expended by the road-overseers in the 

 destruction 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 j)erform such labor as be 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. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication once 

 in the Commonwealth. 



Approved March 6, 1 877. 



AN ACT providing for a concert of action by senatorial districts for the destruction of grasshoppers. 



Be it enacted by 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 commissioners 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 commissioners 

 of the remaining counties in said district, of the time and place when the chairmen 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 be driven from the cultivated laDd 

 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 senatorial 

 district, giving at least ten days' notice of the same by publishing in the newspapers 

 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 determined 

 by the joint meeting. 



