WEED' AND SEED LAWS 803 



Section 3-c. If any township trustee or other officer, or officers, 

 responsible for the care of the public highways in each township 

 or county in this state, neglect or refuse to destroy any noxious 

 weeds upon such highway, or shall fail to prevent the said noxious 

 weeds from blooming or coming to maturity, when such weeds are 

 likely to be the means of infesting the land adjoining such high- 

 ways, the County "Weed Commissioner shall forthwith give written 

 notice to such officer or officers, responsible for the care of such 

 highways, to destroy such noxious weeds, and if such officer or 

 officers shall neglect for ten (10) days after such notice to destroy 

 such weeds, or to prevent the same from maturing seed, then such 

 officer, or officers, shall be subject to the penalty provided in Sec- 

 tion Eight (8) of this chapter. 



Section 3-d. The County Weed Commissioner shall make a re- 

 port of the work of his term to the Board of Supervisors, not later 

 than the thirtieth (30th) day of October of the year for which he 

 was appointed, such report to contain a statement in detail on the 

 presence and location of Canada thistle, horse nettle and quack 

 grass, and the board shall forward a copy of such statement to the 

 Secretary of the Iowa Department of Agriculture not later than 

 the first day of December following: 



Section 3-e. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Iowa 

 Department of Agriculture to furnish to the Board of Supervisors 

 of each county, the notices described in Section 3-a hereof, as well 

 as all necessary blanks for reports to be made to said department, 

 and to keep on file in his office all reports of such noxious weeds 

 furnished him by County Boards of Supervisors, and include in 

 his annual report a summary of the report furnished by such 

 boards. 



This act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect 

 and be in force from and after its publication in the Register and 

 Leader and the Des Moines Capital, newspapers published in Des 

 Moines, Iowa. 



ILLINOIS. 



In Illinois the criminal code statutes provide a penalty of not 

 less than $10.00 nor more than $100.00 for bringing Canada thistle 

 in packing material or in grain, grass or vegetable seed on any 

 land in this state ; nor shall it be permitted to go to seed. The same 

 law also applies to railroads. This includes other noxious weeds 

 growing on the right-of-way of other land operated by railways, 

 but the fine is placed at not less than $50.00 nor more than $200.00. 



