180 The Rocky Mountain Locust. 



by road overseers, and what day or days the young grasshoppers 

 should be driven from the cultivated land 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. 



Sec. 6. Said road overseers shall immediately notify the residents 

 of his road district of the time designated and the manner of pro- 

 cedure, 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 

 to warn out the residents to perform road labor ; and a refusal shall 

 subject such persons refusing to the same penalties as are provided 

 by iaw in such cases. 



Sec. 7. The road overseers shall direct the manner of perform- 

 ing 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 days' work performed by each, and shall place such 

 certified list in the possession of the board of county commissioners 

 of his county. 



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

 co-operate together under the provisions of this act, on a basis of 

 action which they may agree upon. 



Sec 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after 

 its publication in the daily Commonwealth, 



Approved March 7, 1877. 



Both these acts look to compulsory work and concert 

 of action, and in these respects are preferable to bounty 

 acts, and will, without doubt, be productive of more good 

 to the community at less expense to the State. The ob- 

 jects of the two acts should, I think, have been combined 

 in one. 



MINNESOTA — An Act to provide for the destruction op 



GRASSHOPPERS AND THEIR EGGS. 



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



Section 1. There shall be paid by this State, out of any moneys 

 in the treasury thereof, not otherwise appropriated, to any person 



