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NEBRASKA. 
LAW AGAINST CANADA THISTLE. 
SECTION 6903. Every owner or possessor of land shall cut or mow down all Canada 
thistles growing thereon or in the highway adjoining the same, so often as to prevent 
their going to seed, and if any owner or possessor of land knowingly shall suffer 
such thistles to grow thereon in any highway adjoining the same, and the seed to 
ripen so as to cause and endanger the spreading thereof, he shall forfeit and pay a 
fine not less than ten dollars and not more than forty doilars; and any person may 
enter upon the land of another, who shall neglect or refuse to cut or mow down such 
thistles, for the purpose of cutting or mowing down the same, and shall not be liable 
to be sued in an action for trespass therefor. 
Src. 6904. If any person shall, knowingly, vend any grass or other seed in which 
there is any seed of the Canada thistle, such person shall, for every such offense, be 
fined the sum of twenty dollars. 
(Compiled Statutes of Nebraska, Brown & Wheeler, 1895, p. 1350.) 
KUSSIAN THISTLES. 
Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of Nebraska : 
SECTION 1. That the weed commonly known as the Russian thistle is hereby 
declared a public nuisance demanding prompt and efficient action on the part of the 
State for its abatement. 
Src. 2. Any person or persons, company or corporations, owning or occupying any 
land within this State whether said land be within the limits of any village or city 
or elsewhere, or having the control of any such land, who shall knowingly permit or 
suffer any Russian thistle to grow or remain thereon after the expiration of the date 
named in the notice as provided for in section 3 of this act, shall be deemed guilty 
of a misdemeanor and of maintaining a public nuisance, and on conviction thereof 
before any court having jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten 
dollars or more than one hundred dollars and costs of prosecution, and the finding 
of such thistle or thistles standing and growing on any such land after the date 
named in the notice shall be prima facie evidence that the person or corporation 
owning or occupying the same or having the control thereof knew of and permitted 
the same to grow and remain thereon. 
Sic. 3. It shall be the duty of the road overseers of each and every road district 
where the Russian thistle is found to examine his respective district on the first 
Monday of July, August, September, and October and wherever the Russian thistle 
is found it shall be his duty to notify the party or parties in possession of said land, 
in writing or by publication, if a non-resident, in a newspaper of the county for 
three successive weeks commencing with the first week of June of each year, and 
also the owners of said land, that all Russian thistles on his premises must be 
destroyed within one week after such notice, or that he will proceed to destroy the 
same within one week thereafter. 
Sec. 4. In case the Russian thistle is not destroyed on any land in their respective 
road districts by the fifteenth day of August, it shall be the duty of the road over- 
seer to proceed to destroy the same, and the cost of destroying the same shall be 
charged to the party or parties in possession of said land: Provided, That in case 
said party or parties are not the owners of said land, but occupy the same by lease as 
renters, then and in that case there should not be charged more than twenty-five cents 
per acre, and the balance of said amount shall be paid by the owner of said land, to 
be collected the same and at the same time as other taxes; and itis further provided 
that in case the lessee of said land refuses or fails to pay the amount charged to 
them the same shall be assessed against the land occupied by them and collected the 
same as other taxes. When said charge is against the lessee of the land the same 
