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plant which the Governor may . . . have required . . . to he dealt 

 with . . . cause to be published a public notice in the English and 

 Dutch languages, warning all owners and occupiers of land within 

 the division of the liability they will incur under this Act by 

 neglecting to eradicate or destroy the noxious weed or plant named 

 in such notice. 



(b) Upon publication of such notice it shall be the duty of 

 every owner or occupier in such division upon whose land the 

 .noxious weed or plant referred to in such notice is found, to eradi- 

 cate or destroy the same forthwith, . . . and unless such owner or 

 occupier shall before a date to be fixed in such notice assign good 

 , and sufficient reason to the satisfaction of the Council for not com- 

 plying with the notice . . . such Council is hereby required to 

 employ all labourers necessary for eradicating or destroying the 

 said weed or plant, and all the costs and charges thereby incurred 

 shall be recoverable from such owner, or occupier, with costs, . . . 

 -or, ... the said Council may, if it think fit, sommon such owner 



or occupier ... to answer for his neglect to eradicate or destroy 

 -. such weed or plant, and upon proof of his neglect such owner or 



occupier shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence under this Act, 

 . and shall upon conviction be subject to a fine not exceeding twenty 



pounds and such owner or occupier shall be liable to the same 

 penalty for every week or part of a week during which he shall fail, 

 , after his first conviction, to comply with the notice aforesaid. 



In the eradication of noxious weeds it shall be an offence to 

 place such weeds in any river or in any defined water causes. 

 Any person contravening this section shall upon conviction be 

 liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 



Act 17 of 1907 has already been proclaimed in the following 



divisions : 



Aberdeen Jansenville ' Queenstown 



Albert Knysna Riversdale 



Alexandria Kuruman Robertson 



Aliwal North Komgha Somerset East 



Beaufort West Ladismith Steynsburg 



Barkly East Laingsburg Stockenstrom 



Bedford Malmesbury Swellendam 



Bredasdorp Molteno Tulbagh 



Cradock Mossel Bay Van Rhynsdorp 



Colesberg M arrays burg Vryburg 



Fort Beauf eft Oudtshoorn Willowmore 



Xjordonia Prince Albert Wodehouse 



. Hay Paarl Worcester 



