THIRD ANNUAL \EAR BOOK — PART I. 17 



therefor, which in no case, shall exceed two dollars per day for such 

 services, which shall be audited and allowed by said board and paid from 

 the county fund, and the amount so paid shall be entered up and levied 

 against the lands or lots on which said thistles have been destroyed, and 

 collected by the county treasurer the same as other taxes, and returned 

 to the county fund. 



Section 1562-a— WEEDS— DUTY OF ROAD SUPERINTENDENT. 

 It shall be the duty of road supervisors to cause to be cut, near the sur- 

 face, all weeds on the public roads in their respective districts between 

 the fifteenth day of July and the fifteenth day of August of each year. 

 But nothing herein shall prevent the land owner from harvesting the 

 grass grown upon the roads along his land in proper season. 



Section 1563. RUSSIAN THISTLE— NOTICE. No owner or occu- 

 pant of any land or lots, or corporation or association of persons owning, 

 occupying or controlling land as right of way, depot grounds or other 

 purposes, or public officer in charge of any street or road, shall allow to 

 grow to maturity thereon the Russian thistle or salt wort (salsoli kali, 

 variety tragus). It shall be the duty of every person or corporation so 

 owning, occupying or controlling lands, lots or other real property, or 

 any road supervisor or other public officer having charge of 

 any street or road, to cut, burn or otherwise entirely destroy such thistles 

 growing on such premises, right of way, road or street, before the same 

 shall bloom or come to maturity; and any person, corporation or public 

 officer neglecting to destroy all such thistles as aforesaid, after receiving 

 notice in writing of their presence, shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 

 meanor and be punished accordingly. It shall be the duty of any person 

 knowing of the presence of Russian thistles upon any premises, lands, 

 lots, streets, roads or elsewhere, at any time after the first day of July, 

 to give notice immediately to any member of the board of trustees of 

 the township in which thistles are growing; or if within a city or town, 

 then to give notice to the mayor, recorder or clerk thereof; who 

 shall immediately give notice in writing to the owner, occupant, or per- 

 son or corporation in possession or control thereof; and if not destroyed 

 by such owner or occupant or person in possession in proper time to pre- 

 vent maturity, cause their total destruction, the costs thereof, together 

 with the costs of serving notice, to be paid out of the county funds upon 

 the certificate of the township trustees or the council, as the case may 

 be, which board shall cause the sum so paid to be levied as a special 

 tax against the premises upon which the thistles are growing, and against 

 the person or corporation owning or occupying the same; which amount 

 shall be collected by the county treasurer as other taxes, and paid into 

 the county fund. Where township trustees have received notice, as afore- 

 said, of the presence of such thistles upon lands owned by the United 

 States or this state, it shall be their duty to cause their destruction, and 

 the costs thereof, upon proper certificate of the amount, shall be paid 

 out of the county fund. 



Section 1564. INFORMATION— BULLETIN. A bulletin shall be 

 prepared by the professor of agriculture of the agricultural college, 



