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tendent or supervisor of any such roads may allow any landowner or tenant to cut 
and destroy any such brush, briers or weeds, growing on such highways, [along] the 
lands abutting on such highways owned or occupied by such landowner or tenant, 
and before such work is performed allow and fix a reasonable compensation therefor, 
which amount shall be credited on the road tax of that year assessed against said 
premises. The superintendent or manager of any toll road shall cut and destroy all 
brush, briers, and noxious weeds growing within the limits of any such road, between 
the days of each month as above specified in this section, and in default thereof and 
for five days thereafter the trustees of any township through which any such road 
passes shall cause any such brush, briers and weeds to be cut and destroyed, and 
shall have right of action against any such toll road company, for the amount of 
such work, together with one hundred per cent. penalty, and cost of action to be 
recovered before any justice of the peace of such county. 
Src. 4732. The trustees of any township of this State, upon information in writing, 
that Canada or common thistles, ox-eye daisy, wild parsnip, sweet clover, wild car- 
rots, teasels, burdock or cockle-burs, are growing on any lands in their township and 
are about to spread or mature seed, between the first day of June and the fifteenth 
day of October of each year, said trustees shall cause notice in writing to be served 
upon the owner, lessee, agent or tenant having charge of any such lands, notifying 
such owner, lessee or agent or tenant that Canada or common thistles or other nox- 
ious weeds mentioned in this section are growiug on such lands, and that such 
Canada thistles or other noxious weeds shall be cut and destroyed within five days 
after the service of such notice; and in default thereof, that said township trustees 
will enter upon such lands and cut and destroy such Canada or common thistles or 
other noxious weeds; and that the cost of cutting such Canada or common thistles 
or other noxious weeds, with the cost of such notice, will become a lien against said 
lands. Any constable or deputy marshal of any city or village, or deputy, is hereby 
authorized to make service and return of any such notice, and the fees for such serv- 
ices and return shall be the same as are allowed for service and return of summons 
in civil cases before magistrates. If any owner, lessee, agent or tenant having 
charge of any such lands shall fail to comply with such notice, the township trus- 
tees shall cause said Canada or common thistles or other noxious weeds to be cut and 
destroyed, and may employ any person to perform such labor, and allow such person 
fifteen cents per hour for the time occupied in performing such labor, and pay the 
sum for such labor out of any money in the treasury of said township not otherwise 
appropriated, and take receipt for the same. Said township trustees shall make 
return in writing to the board of commissioners of their county, with a statement 
of the charges for their services, the amount paid to the person for performing such 
labor together with the fees of the officers who made the service of notice and 
return, with a proper description of the premises; and the same having been 
allowed, shall be entered upon the tax duplicate, and shall be a lien against such 
lands, from and after the date of such entry on the duplicate, and shall be collected 
as other taxes, aud returned to the township with the general fund. 
Sec. 4732a. That in all cities and incorporated villages, except cities of the first 
-and second grade of the first class and first and second grade of the second class, the 
mayor shall, during the month of May of each year, cause notice to be published for 
two consecutive weeks in one or more newspapers published in the corporation, or 
by posting up written or printed notices in said city or village at three public places 
for ten days next previous to the first day of June of each year, warning the own- 
ers, lessees or agents of lots and lands within such city or village to cause all Canada 
or common thistles, or other noxious weeds mentioned in section forty-seven hun- 
dred and thirty-two, growing on any such lots or lands within said corporation, to 
be cut and destroyed so that they do not mature seed or spread to adjoining lands. 
The common council of such city or village shall, upon information in writing that 
Canada or common thistles or other noxious weeds mentioned in section forty- 
seven hundred and thirty-two are growing on such lands within their corporation 
