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Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, 

 immediately after the passage of this act, to compile, in circular form. all informa- 

 tion relating to the manner and means heretofore need for tin- extermination of 



grasshopper-, and send at least ten copies of the -nine to each township trustee in 



the State. 

 Sec. 6. This act shall take effect and l»e in tore- from and after its publication 



once in the Commonwealth. 

 Approved March 6, 1877. 



All 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 tronhle is 

 anticipated from the ravages of young grasshoppers in the year 1877. and 

 quent year thereafter, it shall he lawful for the counties in said senatorial district 

 to cooperate together, in the way and manner herein provided, for the destruction 

 of the same. 



Sec. 2. The chairman of the hoard of county commissioners in the county having 

 the largest number of inhabitants in a senatorial district, wheretwo or more counties 

 form said district, may notify the chairman of each of the boards of county com- 

 missioners of the remaining counties in said district of the time and place where 

 the chairman of the several boards of commissioners of the respective counties form 

 ing 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 news- 

 papers printed in the senatorial district. 



Sec. 1. Said meeting shall designate the manner of procedure by the road over- 

 seers, and what day or days the young grasshoppers should be driven from the culti- 

 vated land on the unburnt prairie or places of destruction, and shall also designate 

 on what day or days the grasshopper 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. 



- c. 5. The board of commissioners of each county shall notify the road ovei a 

 of said county of the time fixed upon by the joint meeting for the driving and burn- 

 ing, 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. 



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 provisions 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 t-> 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 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 day-* work performed by each. 

 and shall place such certified list in the possession of the board i>f county com- 

 missioners of his county. 



Sec. 8. It shall be lawful for two or more senatorial districts to cooperati 

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



Sec. 9. This act shall take effect and he in force from and after it- publication in 

 the Daily Commonwealth. 



Approved March 7, 1877. 



