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regulations which such board of commissioners shall prescribe. If the Executive 
Relief Board shall ascertain that, for twenty days after the times prescribed by the 
rules and regulations of said board for the destruction of the Russian thistles and 
French weed the work of such destruction has, in any place not been in good faith 
begun and vigorously prosecuted, then said board shall direct the county commissioner 
within whose commissioner district such failure to so begin and so prosecute such 
work exists, to begin such work at once and to vigorously prosecute and complete 
the same. Such direction shall specify the particular facts constituting such failure; 
and if for five days after such direction such county commissioner shall still fail or 
refuse to begin in good faith and to prosecute vigorously such work, thensaid board 
may file in the office of the auditor of such county a copy of such direction with 
proof of service thereof, and may thereupon proceed themselves to cause such work 
to be done, and shall audit the expenses of such work and issue vouchers for such 
expense to the persons employed to perform such work, which vouchers may be pre- 
sented to such county auditor, and he shall thereupon issue warrants to the treasurer 
of such county for the amounts of such vouchers payable to the holders thereof out 
of the road fund of such county. Such direction of said board shall be in writing, 
and may be served personally or by registered mail; proof of service in the former 
case shall be by affidavit attached to a copy of such direction, and in the latter by 
affidavit of mailing attached to a copy of such direction and accompanied by the 
post-office registry receipt: Provided, The expense of any such destruction which the 
Executive Relief Board may cause to be so done on any lands or fire breaks as speci- 
fied in section 11 of this act, shall be a charge upon the State, and for the payment 
of such expense by him, the treasurer of such county may retain a sufficient amount 
of money in his next settlement with the State treasurer in the manner as provided 
in section 11 of this act. 
Sec. 5. Any owner, or occupant of any land in any commissioner district in any 
county or any citizen of such district may make complaint to the county commis- 
sioner in charge of that district, by written notice of the existence of Russian thistles 
and French weed on any land or lands, describing the same, in the district of such 
commissioner, such thistles or French weeds not being on any highway, roadway or 
trailin use by the public. Thereupon such county commissioner shall at once notify 
the occupant of such land in writing, if such land be occupied, and in any case such 
county commissioner shall require the county auditor of such county at once to notify 
in writing the owner of such land, if his address be filed with such county auditor, 
or if it can be found, of the existence of such thistles or Freach weeds upon such 
land; and such notice served on such owner shall be sent by registered mail, and all 
postoffice receipts therefor shall be filed and preserved by such county auditor. If 
no such service of notice on the owner can be had, then notice shall be published 
one week in some newspaper published in such county; orif none be published, then 
a copy of such notice shall be conspicuously posted ten days on the front door of the 
court house of such county. It shall then become the duty of such occupant or 
owner, completely to destroy such thistles and French weed on such land, (but not on 
any highway, roadway or trail in public use) in the manner and season which shall 
be determined as provided in section 4 of this act. If within ten days after comple- 
tion of service, publication or posting of notices aforesaid, (but not earlier than ten 
days after the date so fixed as provided in section 4 of this act, as the beginning of 
the season for destroying Russian thistles and French weed), the destruction of such 
Russian thistles and French weed on such land has not been completed, or begun 
and vigorously prosecuted, such county commissioner shall at once cause such thistles 
and French weed to be destroyed on such land in a manner so fixed in accordance 
with section 4 of this act; and he shall verify the expenses thereof by an itemized 
statement to the county auditor and the county auditor shall, at the meeting of the 
board of county commissioners, as provided in section 16 of this act, lay the same 
before such board, and the amount which in any such case shall be allowed by such 
board of county commissioners shall be entered upon the tax list as provided in sec- 
