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Src. 6. Inasmuch as there is no provision for the destruction of noxious weeds, and 
many of said weeds will go to seed before July Ist, therefore this act shall take effect 
and be in force from and after its passage and approval. 
Approved March 6, 1891. 
(Laws of North Dakota, 1891, p. 253.) 
RUSSIAN THISTLE AND FRENCH WEED. 
Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the State of North Dakota: 
SECTION 1. The noxious weed known as Russian thistle and French weed rice 
ever found in the State of North Dakota, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, 
and itis made the duty of every person or corporation owning, occupying, leasing or 
having any lien or interest in any land, without regard to the use to which such land 
is put, to destroy the same before it shall go to seed, or if it shail have gone to seed, 
to completely destroy the same by burning it, before any plant shall have broken 
off or scattered its seed. 
Sec. 2. Any overseer or supervisor of roads, any sheriff or constable or officer of 
any organized township, or any mayor or police officer of any incorporated city, town 
or village, who shall know of the existence of any such Russian thistles or French 
weeds within their respective jurisdictions, who shall fail or neglect to destroy the 
same, or cause them to be destroyed, or else to make complaint in writing to the com- 
missioner whose duty it becomes under the provisions of this act to cause the destruc- 
tion of such thistles and French weed, shall be guilty of malfeasance in office, and 
upon conviction of such failure or neglect, shall be subject to a fine of not less than 
$25 nor more than $50. 
Sec. 3. Every county commissioner shall be charged with the duty of personally 
Superintending and enforcing the provisions of this act within his commissioner 
district. 
Sec. 4. There is hereby constituted a board of commissioners which shall be des- 
ignated The Executive Relief Board, which board shall consist of the Governor and 
two competent persons whom he shall appoint to hold their offices until the Governor 
shall appoint their successors. Said commissioners shall acquire all necessary and 
practicable information for the purpose, and shall determine the general methods 
and seasens for the destruction of Russian thistles and French weed prior to June 
Ist, 1895. They shall cause their general determinations, with such rules and regu- 
lations, as they may deem wise to be printed, and at least twenty (20) copies of the 
same to be sent to the auditor of each county in the State. They shall also cause a 
copy of such determinations, rules and regulations to be sent to each newspaper in 
the State. They may determine upon special methods and seasons for such destruc- 
tion when in their judgment it shall seem best, and such special determinations and 
the rules and regulations which they may prescribe for their execution shall be printed 
or not as they deem wise, and notice of them shall be given only as shall be neces- 
sary in each case. They may at any time change or modify such determinations and 
rules and regulations, and in such ease they shall send to the county auditors printed 
copies of such changed and modified determinations, rules and regulations; and all 
the determinations, rules and regulations so established by such commissioners, shall 
have the full force of law. The board of commissioners hereby established shall 
control and direct any and all operations contemplated in any appropriation which 
may be made, and of the expenditure of any money which may come into possession 
of the State from any such appropriation, from taxes as provided in section 17 of 
this act, or from any other source, to be used for the destruction of Russian thistles 
and French weed. They shall file itemized vouchers for such expenditures with the 
State auditor, who shall issue his warrants upon the State treasurer for the amount 
of such vouchers. No claim shall be allowed and no money paid out of the State 
treasury, or out of any county treasury for any expenses of destruction of Russian 
thistles and French weed not done in accordance with the determinations, rules and 
