652 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



SEIZL'KE AND DESTRUCTION OF DISEASED PLANTS. 



Sec. .j023. If complaint is made before a justice of the peace by one or 

 more responsible persons, that they have good reason t© believe that hop roots 

 have been introduced into or are being cultivated in the city or township where 

 they reside in violation of the pr^^cediug section, the justice befo>e whom ^uch 

 complaint is made shall issue a warrant authoriing any peace officer to seize 

 such roots, and they shall be held In charge by such officer until action has been 

 brought against the person so offending, and the cause determined ; and in case it 

 is found that the said plants, roots or cuttings are diseased, or are infected by 

 lice or vermin of a contagious character, the officer before whom it is brought shall 

 order said roots, plants or cuttings to be burned, cliarging the expense of do- 

 ing the same as costs upon the party owning or cultivating the roots, plants or 

 cuttings : and in no case shall he allow them to be planted or delivered to a third 

 party until the fact is established that they are not infected with any vermin or 

 disease of a contagious character. 



CANADA THISTLES. 



Sec. 5024. If any person or corporation, after having been notified in writ- 

 ing of the presence of Canada thistles on any lands owned or occupied by such per- 

 son or corporation; or if any road supervisor, after having been notified in writ- 

 ing of the presence of any such thistles on the road under his jurisdiction, shall 

 permit such thistles or any part thereof to blossom or mature, such person, cor- 

 poration or road supervisor shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished 

 by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not 

 more than thirty days. 



FENCES— MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS CONCERNING. 



PARTITION FENCES. 



Sec. 2355. The respective owners of adjoining tracts of land, except timber 

 land not used otherwise than for tiie timber thereon, from which each derives any 

 revenue or benefit, shall be compelled to erect and maintain partition fences, or con- 

 tribute thereto, and keep the same in good repair throughout the year, and if said 

 fence be hedge, the owner tliereof shall trim or cut it back once in two years to 

 within five feet from the ground, unless such owners otherwise agree in a writing 

 to be filed with and recorded by the township clerk. 



POWERS OF FENCE VIEWERS. 



Sec. 2356. The fence viewers shall have power to determine any 

 controversy arising under this chapter, upon giving five days' notice in writing to 

 the opposite party or parties, prescribing the time and place of meeting to hear 

 and determine the matter named in said notice. Upon the request of any land 

 owner, the fence viewers shail give such notice to all adjoining land owners liable for 

 the erection, maintenance, rebuilding, trimming or cutting back, or repairing of a 

 partition fence, or to pay for an existing hedge or fence. At said time and place 

 the fence viewers shall meet and determine by written order the obligations, rights 

 and duties of the respective parties in such matter, and assign to each owner the 

 part which he shall erect, maintain, rebuild, trim or cut back, or pay for. and fix 

 the value thereof, and prescribe the time within which the same shall be completed 

 or paid for, and, in case of repair, may specify the kind of repairs to be made. 



ASSIGNMENT OF PORTIONS. 



Sec. 2357. In case a land owner desires to erect a partition he'dge or fence 

 when the owner of the adjoining land is not liable to contribute thereto, the fence 



