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for each certificate granted under this act, all to be paid out of the treasury of his 
county. 
Sec. 7. As the object of this act is the rapid destruction of the locust the ensuing 
spring, it shall take eliect and be in force from and after its passage. 
A^jproved February 23, 1877. 
KANSAS. 
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Aif ACT to provide for the dostraction of grasshoppers and to punish for violation of this act. 
Belit enacted hy theVegislature of the State of Kansas : 
Section 1. That the township trustees of the different tovraships, and the mayors 
of cities which are not included in any township of any county within this State, are 
hereby authorized and it is made their duty, when so requested, in writing, by fifteen ol 
the legal voters of the township or city, to issue orders to the road-overseers of the diifer- 
eut road districts within their respective townships or cities, to warn out all able- 
bodied males between the ages of twelve and fifty years within their respective dis- 
tricts for the purpose of destroying locusts or migratory insects. 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of road-overseers, immediately after receiving said or- 
ders, to i)roceed at ouce to warn out all persons liable under section one of this act, 
giving notice of the time and 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 person 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 misdemeanor, 
aud 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 premises 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, imme- 
diately after the passage of this act, to compile 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, 1 877. 
AN ACT providing for a concert of action by senatorial districts for the destruction of grasshoppers. 
Se it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas : 
Section 1. 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 subse- 
quent year thereafter, 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 notify 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 respective counties forming said senatorial 
district shall bold 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 
)3riuted in the senatorial district. 
Sec. 4. Said meeting shall designate the manner of procedure by road-overseers, and 
what day or days the young grasshoppers should be driven from the cultivated land 
on the unburut 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. 
