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other including railway right of way, the trustees shall make an 

 investigation of such condition or complaint and if the same ap- 

 pears to be well founded they shall make an order fixing the time 

 within which the weeds shall be prevented from maturing seed, 

 and an order that within one year such noxious weeds shall be 

 permanently destroyed, and prescribing the manner of their de- 

 struction 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 road tax not paid. 



Section 4. Road funds may be expended. — 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 destruction of weeds. 



Section 5. Property tax. — The law as it appears in section 

 fifteen hundred and twenty-eight (1528) 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 places," and by striking out the word "four" in the 

 tenth line of said section and inserting the word "six" in lieu 

 thereof. 



Section 6. School of instruction. — Between November and the 

 succeeding April of each year the county supervisors shall call a 

 meeting of the township trustees and the road supervisors of the 

 county to consider the best methods of road work and weed de- 

 struction, 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. 



Section 7 . Cutting of weeds on highways. — It shall be the duty 

 of township trustees and other officers directly responsible for the 

 care of public highways to cause to be cut near the surface all 



