78 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 



least 10 days prior to the day of such hearing, describing therein the tract com- 

 plained of, the nature of the complaint, and the session of the board when 

 application will be made for such hearing, naming the first day of such session, 

 whereupon the hearing may be had on said day, or upon such future day as the 

 board shall then appoint therefor. Such notice may be served in the manner 

 as provided in section 3 of this act for the service of a copy of the order therein 

 authorized. 



Sec. 3. If the board of county commissioners shall, after the hearing and 

 investigation authorized by the preceding section, be of the opinion that any tract 

 or parcel of land, or any portion thereof, is so infested with the eggs of grass- 

 hoppers to the extent contemplated bj^ section one ( 1 ) of this act, it shall make 

 and file its order to that effect, directing therein that the owner or lessee of such 

 tract or parcel plow the same within the time therein stated, and cause a copy of 

 such order to be served upon such owner, or his agent or lessee, within such 

 time as the board shall direct, not less than 20 days from the date of said order. 

 Such copy shall be served upon such owner or lessee, if he be a resident of the 

 county, in the same manner that a summons is served in a civil action ; and, if 

 such owner or lessee resides in another county, service thereof may be made 

 upon the agent of such owner or lessee, if any, residing in the county ; and if 

 the owner is not a resident of this State, or his residence is unknown, and he 

 has no known agent or lessee in the county, then service may be made by publi- 

 cation for two consecutive weeks in a legal newspaper printed at the county 

 seat of such county, the last of which publications shall be made not less than 

 10 days prior to the date when the plowing of any such tract or parcel is 

 required to be commenced. 



The order of the said board authorized by this section may be in substantially 

 the following form : 



Whereas. At a meeting of the board of county commissioners of 



county, held on the day of . 10 — . the said board did duly hear 



and investigate relative to a complaint that the tracts or parcels of land herein- 

 after described are so infested with the eggs of grasshoppers as to be greatly 

 dangerous to grasses, grains, or other crops growing, or to grow, on the lands 

 situate in the vicinity of such tracts, as to threaten the destruction of a great 

 part of such grasses, grains, or other crops ; and 



Whereas, The said board is of the opinion that such danger exists, the said 

 tracts being described as follows : 



(Here insert description.) 



It is hereby ordered and described that the owner (or his lessee) of said tract 



or parcel of land shall, not later than the day of , 190 — , begin, and 



with reasonable dispatch continue, the plowing of said tract or parcel, and all 

 thereof, and complete such plowing prior to the day of , 190 — . 



(Or, if all the lands complained of are not so infested, then describe the? 

 portions thereof found to be so infested and re(iuired to be plowed.) 



The county auditor is hereby required to cause a copy of this order to be 

 served upon the owner of the lands hereby required to be plowed, or his agent 

 (or lessee), in the manner required by law for the service thereof. 



Chairman Board of County Commissioners. 



County 



Attest : 



, County Auditor. 



Dated . 



