182 The Bocky Mountain Locust. 



Sec. 6. For a failure on the part of said measurer to perform 

 any of his duties under this act, or for any mismeasurement of 

 such grasshoppers and their eggs, he shall be deemed to be guilty 

 of a misdemeanor, and be subject to pay a fine of not less than 

 ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in 

 the county jail for a term of not less than thirty nor more than 

 ninety days, in a suit or proceeding to be prosecuted in the name 

 of the State of Minnesota, in the same manner as is provided by 

 law in other cases of misdemeanor. 



Sec. 7. Upon the presentation of such certificate to the county 

 auditor, he shall issue a certificate to the person entitled thereto for 

 the amount due him, (a form of which certificate shall be furnished 

 by the State Auditor), and shall make an order upon the State Au- 

 ditor for the amount thereof, and the State Auditor shall draw his 

 warrant upon the State Treasurer for that amount, in favor of the 

 parties holding said certificates, which shall be paid by the State 

 Treasurer on presentation : Provided, That all certificates presented 

 to the county auditor for payment shall be by him filed and pre- 

 served in his office, and he shall present such certificates to the 

 board of county commissioners, who shall audit the same in the 

 manner now provided by law for auditing accounts against coun- 

 ties ; 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 pro- 

 visions of this act at any time prior to the fifteenth day of July, 

 A.D, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and that the money here- 

 by 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 respectivel}', ac- 

 cording 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 grasshoppers 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 



