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MISSOURI. — An Act to encourage the destruction of 



GRASSHOPPERS. 



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as 

 ! follows : 



Section 1. Any person who shall gather, or cause to be gathered 

 by any person in his employ, eggs of the Rocky Mountain locust or 

 grasshopper, at any time after they are deposited in the earth in the 

 autumn of any year, and before tbey are hatched the following 

 spring, shall be entitled to a bounty of five dollars for each and 

 every bushel of eggs thus gathered, or for any quantity less than 

 one bushel, bounty at the same rate, to be paid, one-half by the 

 State and one-half by the county in which they are gathered. 



Sec. 2. Any person who shall gather, collect and kill, or cause 

 to be so collected and killed, young and unfledged grasshoppers in 

 the month of March, shall be entitled to a bounty of one dollar for 

 each bushel, and for the month of April, fifty cents per bushel, and 

 for the month of May, twenty-five cents per bushel, to be paid in 

 the same mauner as in the preceding section. 



Sec. 3. Any person claiming bounty under this act, shall pro- 

 duce the eggs and grasshoppers thus gathered or killed, as the case 

 may be, before the clerk of the county court in which such eggs or 

 grasshoppers were gathered or killed, within ten days thereafter, 

 whereupon said clerk shall administer to such person the following 

 oath or affirmation: You do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case 

 may be,) that the eggs (or grasshoppers, as the case may be,) pro- 

 duced by you, were taken and gathered by you, or by person 

 or persons in yom employ, or under your control, and within this 

 county and State. 



Sec. 4. The clerk shall forthwith destroy said eggs by burning 

 the same and give to the person proving up the same under his hand 

 and seal, a certificate setting forth in a plain handwriting, without 

 interlineation, the amount of eggs or grasshoppers produced and 

 destroyed by him, and the name and residence of such person pro- 

 ducing the same, which certificate shall be in the following form: 



STATE OF MISSOURI, ) 

 County op. ) 



This is to certify that in the county of A. B. 



did this day prove before me that he had gathered, or caused to be 



gathered, of eggs, ...grasshoppers, and is 



entitled to the sum of. dollars, and. cents. 



Given under my hand and seal of my office, this 

 day of A. D. 18. .. 



,A. B., Clerk County Court. 



Which certificate shall be received a:_d taken by the collector of 

 revenue of the county in which the same was given, and such 

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