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between the tenth day of June and the fifteenth day of October of each year, cause 
‘such Canada or common thistles or other noxious weeds to be cut and destroyed so 
that they do not mature seed or spread to other lands, and said council may employ 
any person to cut and destroy said noxious weeds and allow such person so employed 
fifteen cents per hour for the time employed in such labor. And said council shall 
pay such amount out of the money of the general fund in the treasury of said city or 
village not otherwise appropriated, and take a receipt therefor. And said council 
shall make return in writing to the board of commissioners of their county, with a 
statement of the amount paid for such labor, and one dollar additional, as a penalty 
on each lot or parcel of Jand containing less than one acre, and with two dollars on 
each lot or parcel containing more than one acre. The same having been allowed, 
the auditor shall enter the amount so certified to him on the tax duplicate of the 
county against the lots or lands on which said Canada or common thistles or other 
noxious weeds were cut and destroyed, and the amounts shall be a lien against said 
lots or lands from and after such entry, and shall be collected as other taxes are col- 
lected, and returned to such city or village with the general fund: Provided, That 
[if] any such owner of such lots or lands shall tender to the treasurer of such town- 
ship in cases of townships, or to the treasury of such city or village in the case of 
city or village, the amounts so chargeable against such lots or lands for such labor, 
together with the penalty as certified to by the clerk of said township, city or vil- 
lage showing the amount of such charges and penalty, the treasurer shall receive the 
amount so tendered, upon which said lots and lands shall be discharged from further 
liability. 
Src. 4732b. Township trustees shall be entitled to $1.50 per day for their services 
under this act; the mayor of any city or village, or trustees of any township, or 
superintendent or other officer of any toll road, or superintendent of any improved 
or macadamized road, or supervisor of any county or township road, or street com- 
missioner of any city or village, who neglects or refuses to perform their duties as 
mentioned in sections 4730, 4732 and 4732a, shall be fined in the sum of fifty dollars 
in any court having competent jurisdiction of such cases; such fines shall go into 
the road fund of the township in cases against township or toll road officers; and 
into the street fund in cases against mayors or other municipal officezs. 
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of May, 
1893. 
Passed April 25, 1893. 
(Ohio Laws 1893, p. 301.) 
OREGON. 
OF THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS WEEDS. 
SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the supervisors of the several counties in this 
State, in addition to the duties hitherto prescribed by law, to cause the destruction, 
in the manner which to said overseers shall seem most effective, of the weed known 
as the dagger cockle burr, where such weed shall be found growing upon the public 
highways and county roads of this State. 
SEc. 4209. The road supervisors shall have the power to warn out laborers upon the 
public highways for the extirpation of such weed, as in cases of repairs of such 
highways. 
Src. 4210. Any road overseer neglecting to perform his duty under the provisions 
of this chapter shall be liable to a fine of not more than twenty-five nor less than 
five dollars, to be recovered to the use of the county before any justice of the peace 
by suit in the name of the county. 
Sec. 4211. The owners or occupants of land shall carefully extirpate such weed 
when the same is found growing upon the land of such owner or occupant; and if 
such owner or occupant shall fail or refuse to destroy such weed after being noti- 
fied by the road supervisor or any other person of the existence of such weed upon 
