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or persons living within any of the counties in said State afflicted 

 by grasshoppers, the following bounties for catching and destroying 

 of the same, and the destruction of their eggs. 



Sec. 2. The sum of one dollar per bushel for grasshoppers 

 caught previous to the twenty-fifth day of May next. The sum of 

 fifty cents per bushel from the said twenty-fifth day of May to the 

 tenth day of June. The sum of twenty-five cents per bushel from 

 the said tenth day of June to the first day of July, and twenty cents 

 per bushel from the said first day of July to the first day of Octo- 

 ber next. 



Sec. 3. There shall also be paid in the same manner, the sum of 

 fifty cents per gallon for any and all grasshopper eggs taken and 

 destroyed by any person or persons. 



Sec 4. There shall be appointed by the Governor a competent 

 person in each township in the several counties so afflicted by grass- 

 hoppers, who shall be a resident of the township for which he shall 

 be appointed, to receive, measure and destroy the grasshoppers and 

 their eggs delivered to him by any person or persons catching and 

 taking the same, which said person so appointed shall take and 

 subscribe an oath for the faithful discharge of his duties, which 

 oath, together with the certificate of appointment, shall be filed in 

 the office of the county auditor, and he shall receive as compensa- 

 tion for his services such sum as the county commissioner may deter- 

 mine, to be paid out of the funds of the county ; and in case of 

 necessity, when he can not perform the duties of his office, said 

 measurer shall have authority and be empowered to appoint a suit- 

 able and competent person his assistant, which assistant shall be 

 required to take and subscribe the same oath and be subject to the 

 same penalties as the said measurer. 



Sec. 5. The person receiving and measuring the grasshoppers 

 and their eggs as aforesaid, shall measure and immediately and 

 effectually destroy the same, and keep an exact account of all the 

 grasshoppers and their eggs received by him and the names of the 

 persons delivering the same, and shall issue a certificate for the 

 amount of grasshoppers and their eggs to the person delivering the 

 same. And he shall, at the end of each week after commencing to 

 receive and measure the same, and on the second day of June, on 

 the eleventh day of said month, on the second day of July, and on 

 the second day of October next, make a report to the county auditor 

 of all the grasshoppers and their eggs measured by him, the number 

 of certificates issued, and the names of the persons to whom he 

 issued the same ; and the county auditor shall examine the same 

 and file it in his office, which report shall be subject to public in- 

 spection ; and the county auditor shall, at the end of each week 

 after he shall have received the first of said reports, transmit a copy 

 of the said reports to the Governor, who shall, as soon as the sum 

 hereby appropriated shall have been expended in the payment of 

 said bounties, notify all persons interested therein of such fact by a 

 publication of such notice in some newspaper printed and published 

 at the city of Saint Paul, in said State of Minnesota, for three suc- 

 cessive days. 



