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Src. 7. If the owner or occupant of any such lands, or the board of county com- 
missioners, or board of township supervisors in any county or township of this State 
shall fail to comply with any of the requirements of this act they shall forfeit to the 
county for such offenses a penalty of not less than five or more than fifty dollars; 
and upon complaint the State’s attorney shall prosecute for any neglect of duty on 
the part of the owners or occupants of lands, overseers of public highways, board 
of county commissioners or township supervisors. All forfeitures arising under the 
provisions of this act shall inure to the general fund of the county in which action 
is brought. 
Src. 8. The State’s attorney shall be liable under his bond for any failure to 
comply with the provisions of this act. 
Src. 9. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are 
hereby repealed. 
Src. 10. Notice to the owners of the land provided to be given under the provisions 
of this act shall be made in the same manner as summons in the circuit court. 
Sec. 11. Whereas an emergency exists, therefore this act shall take effect and be 
in force from and after the passage and approval. 
Approved March 7, 1890. 
(Session Laws, South Dakota, 1890, pp. 271-273.) 
VERMONT. 
THISTLES AND NOXIOUS WEEDS. 
SECTION 1. Every person or corporation operating a railroad in this State shall 
cause all thistles and noxious weeds growing within the surveyed boundaries of such 
railroad to be cut and destroyed between the first day of July and the fifteenth day 
of July in each year. 
Src. 2. In case of failure so to doin any town through which such road passes, the 
selectmen of such town shall give notice thereof by mail to the principal office of 
such person or corporation, and in case such failure continues for ten days after such 
notice, the selectmen of such town shal] forthwith cause such thistles and weeds to 
be cut at the expense of the town, and such town shall thereupon be entitled to 
recover from such person or corporation the sum of one hundred dollars in an action 
on the case founded upon this statute, to be recovered before any justice of the 
peace having jurisdiction of the parties. 
Approved November 29th, 1882. 
(Laws of Vermont, 1882, No. 40.) 
WASHINGTON. 
CONCERNING CANADA THISTLES. 
SECTION 2238. If any person or persons owning, possessing, or having care or 
charge of any land or lands, improved or unimproved, inclosed or uninclosed, in this 
State, shall knowingly, wilfully or willingly permit or suffer any Chinese or Canada 
thistles to grow thereon, and suffer the same to stand until its seeds get ripe, such 
person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 
shall, for the first offense, be fined the sum of ten dollars, and for the second offense 
not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars, to be recovered, with costs, in 
any action to be brought before any court of competent jurisdiction in the county. 
SEc. 2239. It shall be the duty of each supervisor of roads in each road district 
under the same penalties, for non-compliance as prescribed in preceding, to call out 
a sufficient number of laborers to cut down and destroy any Chinese or Canada 
thistles found growing in the public highways in his road district; said supervisor 
to have said thistles cut down and destroyed before the seedshall have matured, and 
said supervisor shall credit each and every person or laborer so called out with the 
