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the original papers, sliail tile tliem in ttie office of the clerk of the district court, 

 certifying them to be such, and the clerk shall docket them, entitling the applicant 

 or petitioner as plaintiff, and it shall stand for trial as other cases. 



RECORD KEPT— FEES OF CLERK. 



Sec. 2370. The township clerk shall enter all matters herein required to be 

 made of record in his record book, and shall receive ten cents for each one hundred 

 words in entering of record and making certified copies of the matters herein pro- 

 vided for, and twenty-five cents additional for his certificate thereto when re- 

 quired. 



TRUSTEES— DUTIES. 



Sec. 574. The township trustees are the overseers of the poor, fence view- 

 ers, and the township board of equalization, and board of health, and shall have 

 -charge of all cemeteries within the limit of their townships dedicated to public use, 

 when the same are not controlled by other trustees or incorporated bodies. 



TRIMMING HEDGES. 



Sec. 1570. Owners of osage orange, willow, or any other hedge feuce along 

 the public road, unless the same shall be used as wind-break for orchards or feed 

 lots, shall keep the same trimmed, by cutting back within five feet of the ground 

 at least once in every two years, when so ordered by the trustees of their respec- 

 tive townships, and burn or remove the trimmings so cut from the road. 



Upon a failure to comply with the foregoing provision, the road supervisor 

 ■shall immediately serve notice in writing upon the owner of the hedge to trim the 

 same, and if he fails to do so for sixty days thereafter, such supervisor shall cause 

 the same to be done at a cost not exceeding forty cents per rod, which shall be 

 paid for out of the road fund, and make return thereof to the township clerk, who 

 ■shall, in certifying the lands upon which the road tax has not been paid, include 

 the lands along which the hedge has been trimmed, together with the amount paid 

 therefor, which shall be collected by the county treasurer in the manner other 

 county taxes are collected. 



Where the one district system is adopted as provided in this chapter, it 

 shall be the duty of the township trustees to enforce the foregoing provision. 



DUTY OF BOARDS OF SCHOOL DIRECTORS— FENCE. 



Sec. 2745. — a. It shall be the duty of all boards of school directors in school 

 "districts where the schoolhouse site adjoins the cultivated or improved lands of 

 another to build and maintain a lawful fence between said site and cultivated or 

 improved lands. 



MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 



WEIGHTS, MEASURES AND INSrECTION. 



Sec. 3009. The standard weights and measures now in charge of the sec- 

 retary of state, furnished by the government of the United States, shall be the 

 «tandard of weights and measures throughout the state. 



LENGTH AND SURFACE. 



Sec. 3010. The unit or standard measure of length and surface, from which 

 all other measures of extension, whether they be lineal, superficial or solid, shall 

 be derived and ascertained, shall be the standard yard now in possession of the 



