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weeds on the public highways in their respective districts at such 

 times and in such manner as to prevent seeds from maturing. 



Section 8. Penalty. — Any person, firm or corporation violating 

 any of the provisions of this act, or any township trustees, in- 

 spector or other officer who neglects or fails to perform the duties 

 incumbent on him under the provisions of this act, shall be guilty 

 of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 

 one hundred dollars ($100.00). 



Section 9. Repeal. — The law as it appears in sections fifteen 

 hundred and sixty-two (1562), fifteen hundred sixty-two-a (1562-a) 

 and fifteen hundred sixty-three (1563) of the supplement to the 

 code, 1907, and sections fifteen hundred and sixty-four (1564) and 

 fifteen hundred and sixty-five (1565) and section five thousand 

 and twenty-four (5024) of the code are hereby repealed. 



Approved April 21, A. D. 1909. 



Hon. C. R. Brenton and the writer framed a bill with the aid of 

 Robert Hunter, an attorney in Des Moines, which would meet all 

 requirement. Tins provided for weed inspectors. The bill was in- 

 troduced into the Senate by Mr. McColl and in the house by Mr. 

 Brady; however this bill failed to pass. As the subject is so im- 

 portant and is likely to come up again at a future session of the 

 Legislature, I insert the bill. 



A BILL 



FOR AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER NINETY-SIX (96) OF THE ACTS OF THE 

 THIRTY-THIRD (33) GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AND TO CREATE THE OFFICE 

 OF COUNTY WEED COMMISSIONER, AND TO PROVIDE FOR HIS APPOINT- 

 MENT AND DUTIES. 



Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa: 



That Section One (1) of said chapter be amended by adding 

 thereto the following : 



Section 1-a. The office of County Weed Commissioner is hereby 

 created. It shall be the duty of the County Board of Supervisors, 

 at a regular or special meeting of the Board, not later than the 

 first day of April in each year, to appoint a County Weed Com- 

 missioner whose term of office shall be from the first day of May 

 after his appointment to the first day of November following. 



Section 1-b. The County Weed Commissioner shall devote his 

 entire time to the duties of his office, and shall receive as full com- 

 pensation for his services a salary not exceeding seventy-five dol- 

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