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upon the State auditor for the amount thereof, and the State auditor shall draw his 

 warrant upon the State treasurer for that amount in favor of the partiei holding 

 said certificates, which shall he paid hy the State treasure! on presentation; /'"<- 

 vided, That all certificates presented to the county auditor for payment shall tx 

 him filed and preserved in his office, and he shall present such certificates to the 

 board of county commissioners, who shall audit the same in the manner now pro- 

 vided 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 loth 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 

 counties, being above the age of twenty-one years and under the age of sixty years, 

 excepting 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 

 hereinbefore mentioned, for the paying of bounties, for the purpose of catching and 

 destroying grasshoppers and their eggs, for five weeks from the time said grass- 

 hoppers 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 townships. 



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 dis- 

 tricts, 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 1 provided for in this act may commute for 

 the same at the rate of one dollar perday, 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 foi 

 his services; and every person intending to commute tor his assessment shall, 

 within five days after he is notified to appear and work as aforesaid, pay tin- com- 

 mutation money for the work required of him by said notice, and the commutation 

 shall not be considered as made until such money is paid. 



Sec. 12. Every person so assessed and notified, who shall wilfully neglect or refuse 

 to commute or work as provided by this act. shall he guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 shall, on conviction thereof, he liable to pay a ii ne 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 he prosecuted in the name i^l tin* 

 State of Minnesota, in the same manner as is provided by law for prosecutions oi 

 misdemeanors. 



