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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 persons 

 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 misde- 

 meanor, and 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 pre mises 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 

 perform such labor as he may deem necessary for the public good. 



Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the State Board 

 of Agriculture, immediately after the passage of this act, to com- 

 pile 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, 1877. 



An Act providing for a concert op action by senatorial 

 districts for the destruction of grasshoppers. 



Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas : 



Section I- 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 subsequent year thereaf ter, 

 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 notif}' 

 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 respec- 

 tive 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 



