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such county attorney to immediately attend to the prosecution of parties guilty of 
any violation of this act, and any person, party or agent of any corporation who 
shall violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and shall be fined in such sums as in this act provided. 
Src. 17. Whereas an emergency exists, this act shall take effect and be in force 
from and after its passage. 
Approved April 5, A. D. 1895. 
(Laws, Joint Resolutions, and Memorials, Nebraska, 1895, chapter 2. ) 
NEW JERSEY. 
CANADA THISTLES. 
SucTION 1. If any person or persons owning, possessing, or having care or charge 
of any land or lands, improved or unimproved, enclosed or unenclosed in this State, 
shall knowingly, willingly or willfully permit or suffer any Canada thistle to grow 
up thereon, and suffer the same to stand untilits seeds get ripe, he, she, or they shall, 
for every stalk or branch thereof so suffered to grow up, forfeit and pay a fine of 
twenty-five cents, to be sued for and recovered, with costs, by any person, in his 
name, before any court of competent jurisdiction. 
Approved March 8, 1848. 
(Nixon’s Digest, Laws of New Jersey, 1867.) 
Srcrron 1. That any person or persons who shall knowingly and willfully bring 
into this State any bale or bales of hay containing Canada thistle, or seeds of the 
same, or any grass or grain seeds with which the seeds of Canada thistle shall be 
mixed, or who shall knowingly or willfully sell any manure containing any Canada 
thistle, or seeds of the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on con- 
viction thereof, shall be lable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to 
imprisonment in the county jail, workhouse or penitentiary of the county in which 
such conviction shall take place, or both fine and imprisonment may be imposed, in 
the discretion of the court. 
Src. 2. That this act shall take effect immediately. 
Approved March 25, 1881. 
(Laws of New Jersey, 1881, p. 252.) 
NEW WORK. 
WEEDS. 
SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of canals to cause all Canada 
thistles and other noxious weeds growing on the banks and sides of the canals, to 
- the width owned by the State, to be cut down twice in each and every year, once 
between the fifteenth day of June and the first day of July, and once between the 
fifteenth day of August and the first day of September. 
Src. 2. If the said officers shall refuse or neglect to cause the same to be cut at the 
time as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for any person or persons, to cut the same between 
the first and fifteenth days of July, and between the first and fifteenth days of Sep- 
tember in each year, at the expense of the superintendents having charge of the 
sections on which such thistles and noxious weeds shall be so cut, at the rate of one 
dollar per day for the time occupied in so cutting, to be recovered in any court of 
justice in this State. 
(Passed April 21, 1847. Laws 1847 p. 102.) 
Src. 3. It shall be the duty of the several railroad corporations and turnpike cor- 
porations within this State to cause all Canada thistles, white and yellow daisies 
and other noxious weeds growing on any lands owned or occupied by such corpora- 
tions, to be cut down twice in each and every year, once between the fifteenth day 
of June and the twenty-fifth day of June, and once between the fifteenth day of 
August and the twenty-fifth day of August. 
