NINTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART XV 95t 
the manner of their destruction and shall forthwith give notice to the 
occupant of the lands where the noxious weeds exist, and if he shall 
neglect to obey such order within the time so ordered the trustees 
may cause such noxious weeds to be prevented from maturing seeds 
or may cause such noxious weeds to be permanently destroyed and the 
cost of the work shall be recovered from the owner by a special tax 
to be certified by the township clerk in the same manner as other roa.d 
tax not paid. 
Sec. 4. The destruction of noxious weeds in the public highway 
and other public places is hereby made a part of the road work of 
the township trustees and the county supervisors and they shall have 
authority to expend road funds for the destructtion of weeds. 
Section 5. The law as it appears in section fifteen hundred and 
twenty-eight (152 8) of the supplement to the Code, 1907, is hereby 
amended as follows, namely: 
By inserting after the comma in the eighth line thereof the following 
words: "And for the destruction of noxious weeds in public highways 
and other public pla.ces," and by striking out the word "Four" in the 
tenth line of said section and inserting the word "six" in lieu thereof. 
Section now reads as follows: 
Sec. 1528. Powers and duties of trustees. The township trustees 
of each township shall meet on the first Monday in April, or as soon 
thereafter as the assessment book is received by the township clerk, 
a,nd on the first Monday in November, in each year. At the April 
meeting, said trustees shall determine: 
1. The rate of property tax to be levied for the succeeding year for 
roads, bridges, guideboards, plows, scrapers, tools, and machinery 
adapted to the construction and repair of roads, and for the destruction 
of noxious weeds in public highways and other public places, and for 
the payment of any indebtendess previously incurred for road purposes, 
and levy the same, which shall not be less than one or more than six 
mills on the dollar on the amount of the township assessment for that 
year, which when collected, shall be expended under the direction and 
order of the township trustees; 
2. The amount that will be allowed for a day's labor done by a 
man, and by a man and team, on the road. To certify to the board 
of supervisors the desire for an additional road tax, of not to exceed 
one mill, to be levied in whole or in part by the board of supervisors 
as hereinafter provided. At the November meeting, they shall settle 
with the township clerk and supervisors of roads. 
Sec. 6. Between November and the succeeding April of each year 
the county supervisors shall ca.ll a meeting of the township trustees 
and the road supervisors of the county to consider the best methods of 
road work and weed destruction, and in the public interest may secure 
the services of experts to give instruction in road building and weed 
destruction. For such attendance the same compensation shall be 
allowed to the trustees and road supervisors and the county supervisors 
as is allowed by law for other services, to be paid as other expenses. 
The expenses of experts herein provided for may be paid from the 
county road fund. 
