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vided for an owner of land in section 5 of this act. And thereafter such person shall 
be subject to the same obligation as provided in section 5 of this act, the same as if 
he owned such land, and if he shall refuse or neglect to destroy such thistles and 
French weeds, and if such thistles and French weeds are destroyed by and under the 
direction of such county commissioner, then he shall be assessed with a personal tax 
for the expenses of so destroying such thistles and French weeds as provided in sec- 
tion 16 of this act. Such person shall also be subject to all the provisions and 
penalties of section 13 of this act. 
Sec. 12. Every county commissioner shall ascertain by inquiry and investigation 
of ' Russian thistles and Irench weeds exist on any highway, road, way or trail in 
public use, or on any part of such in his commissioner district. If he shall ascertain 
that such thistles and French weeds so exist he shall notify any overseer or super-_ 
visor of highways or roads, whose highway or road district lies in whole or in part 
in any such commissioner district, and within which highway or road district any 
such thistles and French weeds exist on any such highway, road, way or trail in 
public use, to notify all persons who are legally required or permitted to work out 
any road taxes in that year, that such work shall be done, so far as such county 
commissioner shall determine to be necessary, under the direction of such overseer 
or supervisor, in the destruction of such Russian thistles and I'rench weeds in time 
and manner so fixed as provided in section 4 of this act, and if such persons or any 
of them shall fail to so work out their poll toxes, then the money which they or any 
of them shall pay in lieu of such work, shall be paid by the officer into whose pos- 
session or keeping such money shall come, to the county treasurer, who shall credit 
the same to the road fund of such county to be expended for the purposes of this 
act; and when such county commissioner shall have so notified any such overseer or 
supervisor of highways or roads as herein provided, no work on any highway or 
road shall be done in payment of road taxes on any such highway or road district, 
and no money collected in payment of road poll taxes, in any such highway or read 
district, so expended until the requirements of such county commissioner are ful- 
filled. No person shall be relieved hereby from any part of the road poll tax to 
which he shall be subject by law. 
Sec. 13. Any owner or occupant of any land who shall receive written notice 
from the county commissioner or county auditor as provided in this act, to destroy 
any Russian thistles and French weeds existing on the land owned or occupied by 
him, who shall fail or refuse to destroy the same within the time required by the 
notice served on him, in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall be deemed 
guilty of a violation of the provisions of this act, and when convicted thereof, shall 
be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than ten ($10) dollars 
and costs of prosecution. Upon complaint of any owner or occupant of any land or 
of any citizen of the commissioner district in which the land owned or occupied by 
the party so notified lies, it shall be the duty of the State’s Attorney of such county, 
if such complaint seems to be reasonable, to prosecute the party complained of, for 
such failure or refusal, and the penalty imposed, if any, shall be paid to the party 
making such complaint. 
Src. 14. To the end that the propagation and spread of Russian thistles and 
French weeds may to that extent be prevented and for the purpose of this act, it is 
hereby enacted that any owner or occupant of any cultivated land which is free 
from Russian thistles and French weeds, who shall know or be informed of the exist- 
ence of any Russian thistles or French weeds on cultivated land within two miles of, 
and being the nearest cultivated lands on which Russian thistles or French weeds exist 
to the lands which he owns or occupies, and who shall believe from the existence of 
such thistles or French weeds that there is danger that the cultivated lands so occu- 
pied and owned by him will be seeded from such thistles and French weeds if they 
should go to seed, may serve a written notice on the owner or occupant of the culti- 
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