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shall be due the owner from the renter or lessee and may be collected the same as any 
other debt. 
Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the road overseer to destroy all Russian thistles 
- growing in the public roads, but in all cases where it is not a legal highway the 
owners or occupiers of the land shall destroy the Russian thistles up to their lines, 
even if there has been land left for a road and fence built inside of their line. The 
road overseers are hereby authorized to go on any land that the parties in possession 
of fail to destroy the Russian thistle on, and destroy the same according to the pro 
visions of this act. 
Sec. 6. The road overseer shall receive the sum of two dollars ($2) per day for the 
time actually used in inspecting and destroying Russian thistle, and is hereby 
authorized to hire as much help as shall be necessary at not to exceed one dollar 
and fifty cents ($1.50) per day for each person so employed. 
Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the road overseer to certify to the county clerk on 
or before September 10 of each year the amount of werk done, the cost of the same, 
and the different amounts charged against the different pieces of land. . 
Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to certify to the county commis- 
sioners or supervisors where counties are under township organization, the different 
amounts due overseers and their help, which shall be paid out of the county general 
fund. 
Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to enter on the tax list, before 
they are turned over to the county treasurer, the different amounts charged as a 
special tax against land reported by the road overseer or city marshals. 
Sec. 10. Road overseers who fail to do their duty under this law shall be deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction be fined not less than fifty dollars 
($50) or more than one hundred dollars ($100). 
Sec. 11. In cities and towns it shall be the duty of the city authorities to destroy 
all Russian thistles in all streets and alleys, and all public grounds controlled by 
said city, and to notify all parties by publication or notice, the same as all city or 
town ordinances are published, on or before July 1st that if all Russian thistles are 
not destroyed by August fifteenth the city marshal shall destroy the same and certify 
under oath the amount charged against each lot or plat of land to the county clerk, 
the same to be collected as other taxes. 
Sec. 12. It shall be the duty of all railroad companies or other corporate bodies 
owning or controlling land, to destroy the Russian thistle according to the provis- 
ions of this act, and in case of failure the marshal of the cities or towns, and the road 
overseers in their respective districts shall destroy the Russian thistles and certify 
under oath to the county clerk, and the cost of doing the same shall be charged to 
the company and collected in the same manner, and at the same time as other taxes. - 
Src. 13. The taxes imposed by this act shall be known as aspecial thistle tax, and 
shall be collected as other special taxes by the county and township collectors of 
taxes, and shall constitute a special fund to be known as the special thistle fund, 
and the same shall be expended in destroying the Russian thistle and for no other 
purpose. 
Src. 14. The secretary of State shall furnish to the county clerk of each county, 
to be distributed by him to the different road overseers of his county, blank notices 
on the back of which there shall be printed this act, and also such other blanks as 
may be necessary to fulfill the provisions of this act. 
Sec. 15. If any person shall knowingly vend or dispose of any grass or other seed 
for seeding purposes, in which there is any of the seed of the Russian thistle, such 
person shall, for every such offense be fined in the sum of twenty-five dollars, and 
he shall also be liable in damages to the person or persons injured thereby, for all 
damages resulting from the sowing of such seed, which damages may be recovered 
in an action at law. 
Src. 16. It shall be the duty of each road overseer to report to the county attorney 
each and every violation of the provisions of this act, and it shall be the duty of 
