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found, then such notice may be served by posting the same in some 

 conspicuous place upon such articles, property or premises, and 

 by mailing a copy thereof to the owner thereof -at his last known 

 place of residence, if the same is known or can be ascertained. 

 Any and all such places, or orchards, or nurseries, or trees, plants, 

 shrubs, vegetables, vines, fruit, or articles thus infested, or premises 

 where the Russian thistle or saltwort or Johnson grass or other 

 noxious weeds shall be growing, are hereby adjudged and declared 

 to be a public nuisance ; and whenever any such nuisance shall 

 exist at any place within his county, and the proper notice thereof 

 shall have been served, as herein provided, and such nuisance shall 

 not have been abated within the time specified in such notice, it 

 shall be the duty of the county horticultural commissioner to cause 

 said nuisance to be at once abated, by eradicating or destroying 

 said diseases, insects, or other pests, or their eggs, or larvae, or 

 Russian thistle or saltwort or Johnson grass or other noxious 

 weeds. The expense thereof shall be a county charge and the board 

 of supervisors shall allow and pay the same out of the general fund 

 of the county. Any and all sum or sums so paid shall be and be- 

 come a lien on the property and premises from w r hich said nuisance 

 has been removed or abated in pursuance of this chapter. A notice 

 of such lien shall be filed and recorded in the office of the county 

 recorder of the county in which the said property and premises are 

 situated, within thirty days after the right to the said lien has 

 accrued. An action to foreclose such lien shall be commenced 

 within ninety days after the filing and recording of said notice of 

 lien, which action shall be brought in the proper court by the dis- 

 trict attorney of the county in the name and for the benefit of 

 the county making such payment or payments, and when the prop- 

 erty is sold, enough of the proceeds shall be paid into the county 

 treasury of such county to s'atisfy the lien and costs; and the over- 

 plus, if any there be, shall be paid to the owner of the property, if 

 known, and if not, into the court for his use when ascertained. 

 The county horticultural commissioner is hereby vested with the 

 power to cause any and all such nuisances to be at once abated in 

 a summary manner. 



