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his land, then it shall be the duty of the road supervisor to cause said weed to be 
destroyed upon said land, and at the expense of the owner thereof, the expense of 
such labor in destroying such weed to be recovered by suit in the name of the county 
before any court of competent jurisdiction. 
Sec. 4212. It shall be the duty of all municipal corporations and county authori- 
ties in this State to provide for the extermination of the said dagger cockle burr 
within the limits of such corporation or on vacant lands within such county, and 
any city or town corporation within this State neglecting or refusing to comply with 
the provisions of this section shall be liable to a forfeiture to the State of a sum not 
less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by suit in the 
name of the State in any court of competent jurisdiction. 
Sec. 4213. It shall be the duty of the several district attorneys of this State to 
prosecute all suits brought under the provisions of section 4212 within their respec- 
tive counties, and such attorneys shall be entitled to a fee of twenty-five dollars for 
every judgment rendered in favor of the State in such suits, and shall be entitled to 
a fee of ten dollars for every suit brought under the provisions of this chapter when 
judgment is rendered against the State. 
(Hill’s Annotated Laws of Oregon, 1892, pp. 1772-1774.) 
CANADA THISTLE. 
Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the State of Oregon: 
SECTION 1. That 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 destruc- 
tion, in the manner which to the said supervisor shall seem the most effective, of the 
weed known as the Canada thistle, where such weed shall be found growing upon 
the public highways and county roads of this State. 
Sec. 2. The road supervisors of each road district in this State shall immediately 
after this act takes effect, and from time to time thereafter, ascertain whether or not 
there is any weed known as the Canada thistle in his road district, and shall as soon 
[as] he ascertains that there is any of said weed, notify the county court of his county 
in writing at a regular session thereof of the existence of said weed, and upon whose 
land the said weed is growing. As soon as the county court has received said infor- 
mation said court shall appoint a householder in said road district as a commissioner, 
to hold office for the term of one year, whose duty it shall be to cause the said weed 
to [be] extirpated wherever found within said district. 
Sec. 3. When the commissioner aforesaid is appointed it shall be his duty to ascer- 
tain from the road supervisor of his district the exact location of said weed, and he 
shall then notify the owner of the land upon which it is growing of its presence 
thereon, and request said owner to effectually remove said weed from his land;. and 
in case the residence of the owner is unknown or is so far away that he can not be 
notified, or, if notified, can not attend to the extirpation of said weed within a rea- 
sonable time, then it shall be the duty of the commissioner to notify the occupant of 
said land and request him to extirpate said weed from said land. 
Sec. 4. If such owner or occupant shall fail or refuse to destroy such weed after 
being notified by the commissioner of the existence of such weed upon his land, 
then it shall be the duty of said commissioner, and he shall have authority to go 
upon said land and cause said weed to be extirpated from said land in the manner 
which to him seems the most effective. The expense of destroying said weed on said 
land shall be paid upon the proper showing made by the commissioner out of the 
county funds, and shall be and remain a charge upon said lands, to be assessed to 
said land and collected the same as taxes: Provided, That the same may be remitted 
by the county court at any regular session thereof upon the petition of ten resident 
householders of the precinct where said petitioner resides. 
Sec. 5. The commissioner shall receive from the county for his services, specified 
in sections 3 and 4 of this act, the sum of two dollars per day for the time actually 
employed. ; . 
