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supervisor or constable of the existence of any such Canada thistles or weeds thereon, 
it shall be his duty to notify the owner, or owners, or agents of said lands in writ- 
ing, giving ten days notice to cut and destroy the same as aforesaid, and upon 
failure to comply at the end of ten days, such officer, or any person or persons © 
employed by him, shall proceed in the manner hereinbefore provided, with like fees 
and compensation; and if any such constable or supervisor shall neglect or refuse 
to perform his duties as prescribed by this act, he shall be liable to fine of ten dol- 
lars, the same to be sued for and recovered as aforesaid, by the party or parties 
aggrieved or about to be injured by such neglect or refusal. 
(Brightiy’s Purdon’s Digest. Pennsylvania. Supplement 1575-1891, p. 2131.) 
SOUTH DAKOTA. 
RELATING TO THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS WEEDS. 
Be it enacted by the legislature of the State of South Dakota: 
SECTION 1. Every person and every corporation shall destroy on all lands which 
he or it may own or occupy, ail weeds of the kind known as Russian thistle, Canada 
thistle and cockle burr, at such time as the township board of supervisors, or the 
board of county commissioners, in counties which have not been organized into 
townships may direct; and notice sha]l be published in one or more county papers 
for a time not less than three weeks before the time fixed upon for the destruction 
of said weeds: Provided, That if there be no newspaper published in the county, 
then the said notice in lieu of such publication shall be posted the same as election 
notices are posted. 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the township supervisors or the board of county 
commissioners to fix the time for the destruction of all noxious weeds and to provide 
for their destruction in such manner as shall prevent their bearing seed. 
Sec. 3. Every overseer of highways of every township or county shall also at the 
same time and in like manner, destroy all such noxious weeds, either on the high- 
ways of his road district or on any unoccupied lands therein, upon which the owner 
or lessee thereof shall neglect or refuse so to do; and for which service such overseer 
of highways shall receive as compensation a sum to be fixed by the board of county 
commissioners to be paid out of the general county fund: Provided, however, That 
the compensation for the said services shall not be less than two dollars per day. 
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the overseer of highways to present to the board of 
county commissioners an itemized account, verified under oath, showing description 
of each piece of land upon which noxious weeds have been destroyed in accordance 
with the provisions of this act and the amount of the charge for such service by 
separate items; and said amounts shall become a lien against the lands so described, 
except in the case of the destruction of noxious weeds upon the public highways. 
The amount of cost of the destruction of such noxious weeds as so certified shall be 
placed upon the next tax list in a separate column headed ‘‘For the destruction of 
noxious weeds,” as a tax against the land upon which such noxious weeds were 
destroyed, subject to all the penalties thereof, and to be collected as other taxes, and 
the entry of such tax upon the tax list shall be conclusive evidence of the liability 
of the land to such tax. 
Src. 5. It shall be the duty of*all overseers of highways to certify to the county 
clerk in an itemized account verified by oath the amount of labor performed in 
destroying noxious weeds on all lands not public highways on or before the fifteenth 
day of September in each year. 
Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to enter upon the tax list ina 
separate column for that purpose headed ‘‘For the destruction of noxious weeds” an 
amount equal to the cost of such labor as a tax against all lands not public high- 
ways upon which such noxious weeds were destroyed. 
