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labor assessed against such person, and shall direct the town clerk 

 to make a certified copy of each list, after which the town clerk 

 shall deliver the several copies to the respective overseers of the 

 highways of said townships. 



Sec. 10. The overseers of highways shall give at least two 

 days' notice to all persons assessed to work as aforesaid, living 

 within the limits of their respective districts, of the time and 

 places where and when they are to appear for that purpose, and 

 with what implements. 



Sec. 11. Every person liable to work, as provided for in this 

 act, may commute for the same at the rate of one dollar per day, in 

 which case such commutation money shall be paid to the chairman 

 of the board of supervisors, to be applied and expended by him for 

 the destruction of grasshoppers and .their eggs, and he shall be 

 authorized and required to hire and engage some suitable and effi- 

 cient person to work in the place of said person so commuting, and 

 to pay him the sum of one dollar per day for his services ; and 

 every person intending to commute for his assessment shall, within 

 five days after he is notified to appear and work as aforesaid, pay 

 the commutation money for the work required of him by said 

 notice, and the commutation shall not be considered as made until 

 such money is paid. 



Sec. 12. Every person so assessed and notified, who shall will- 

 fully neglect or refuse to commute or work as provided by this 

 act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction 

 thereof, be liable to pay a fine of not less than*two dollars nor 

 more than ten dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not 

 more than ten days, or both, in the discretion of the court, in a 

 suit to be prosecuted in the name of the State of Minnesota, in the 

 same manner as is provided by law for prosecutions of misde- 

 meanors. 



Sec. 13. There shall be appropriated, out of any moneys in the 

 treasury of this State, not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose 

 of carrying out the provisions of this act, the sum of one hundred 

 thousand dollars. 



Sec. 14. The board of county commissioners of any county in 

 this State afflicted by grasshoppers, shall have the right, if in their 

 judgment they see fit, to employ one or more persons in each town- 

 ship in said county with such implements or mechanical contriv- 

 ances as may prove most efficient to destroy the grasshoppers, from 

 the first day of April to the first day of August in each year, paying 

 such persons either by the day or a specified sum for the amount 

 captured and destroyed. The compensation of such person shall 

 be paid out of the general fund of the county : Provided further, 

 That parties employed and paid by the county commissioners shall 

 not receive any other or further compensation under the provisions 

 of this act. 



Sec 15. This act shall take effect and be in force from and 

 after its passage. 



Approved March 1, 1877. 



