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"Be it therefore enacted by the Governour, Council, and House of 

 Representatives, that whoever, whether community or pHvate person, 

 hath any Barberry Bushes standing or growing in his or their Land, within 

 any of the Towns in this Province, he or they shall cause the same to be ■ 

 extirpated or destroyed on or before the thirteenth Day of June, Anno 

 Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty. 



"Be it further enacted that if there shall be any Barberry Bushes 

 standing or growing in any land within this Province, after the said loth 

 day of June, it shall be lawful, by Virtue of this Act, for any Person who- 

 soever to enter the Lands wherein such Barberry Bushes are, first giving 

 one month's notice of his intention to do so to the Owner or Occupant 

 thereof, and to cut them down, or pull them up by the root, and then to 

 present a fair account of his labour and charge therein to the owner or 

 occupant of the said land; and if such owner or occupant shall neglect or 

 refuse by the space of two months next after the presenting said account, 

 to make to such person reasonable payment as aforesaid, then the person 

 who cut down or pulled up such bushes, may bring the action against such 

 owner or occupant, owners or occupants, before any Justice of the Peace, 

 if under forty shillings, or otherwise before the Inferior Court of Common 

 Pleas in the County where such Bushes grew, who upon proof of the cut- 

 ting down or pulling up of such bushes by the person who brings the action, 

 or such as were employed by him, shall and is hereby respectively em- 

 powered to enter up judgment for hirh to recover double the value of the 

 reasonable expense and labour in such service and award execution 

 accordingly. 



"Be it further enacted, that the Surveyors of the Highways, whether 

 public or private, be and hereby are empowered and required ex officio to 

 destroy and extirpate all such Barberry Bushes as are or shall be in the 

 Highways in their respective Wards or Districts, and if any such shall 

 remain after the aforesaid tenth Day of June, Anno Dominio One Thou- 

 sand Seven Hundred and Sixty, that then the Town or District in which 

 such bushes are shall pay a Fine of two shillings for every bush standing or 

 growing in such Highway, to be recovered by Bill Plaint, Information, or- 

 on the Presentment of a Grand Jury, and to be paid one Half to the In- 

 former and the other Half to the Treasury of the County in which such 

 bushes grew for the use of the County." 



In addition to the rust of wheat, there are also rusts of 

 the carnation and the clover caused by species of Uro- 

 myccs. The carnation rust, which first appeared about 



