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amount of labor so performed at the rate of two dollars per day on his road tax: 
Provided, That the counties of Cowlitz, Skamania, Pacific, Clarke, and Wahkiakum 
shall not be included in the provisions of this title. 
(Hills Annotated Statutes and Codes of Washington, 1891, p. 834.) 
WEST VIRGINIA. 
NOXIOUS ANIMALS AND WEEDS. 
SECTION 25. The county court of a county may offer reasonable bounties or rewards 
for the destruction of noxious animals, birds of prey, or weeds in the county, and 
provide for the payment of such bounties or rewards out of the county treasury. 
They may also provide for the abatement or removal of nuisances prejudicial to the 
health of the inhabitants in any part of the county, or may require or direct the 
removal of any particular nuisance of the kind. 
Approved February 21, 1881. Acts 1881, p. 30. 
(Code of West Virginia, Warth., 1891, p. 286.) 
WISCONSIN. 
NOXIOUS WEEDS. 
SECTION 1. Every person and corporation shall destroy, upon all lands which he 
or they shall own, occupy or control, all weeds known as the Canada thistle (circium 
arvense'), burdock (lappa officinalis*), white or ox-eye daisy (leucanthemum vulgare ?*), 
snapdragon or toad flax (linaria vulgaris‘), cockle burr (Zanthium strumarium®), sow 
thistle (souchus arvensis®), sour dock aud yellow dock (rumex crispus’), mustard 
(sinapis arvensis®), wild parsnip (Thaspium barbinode*’), sweet clover (Mellilotus!® 
alba or mellilotus vulgaris), and Russian thistle (salsola kali'!), and at such time 
and in such manner as shall effectually prevent them from bearing seed. In like 
manner shall he or they destroy any of the above-mentioned weeds standing or grow- 
ing as far as the center of the highways, lanes or alleys, adjoining the lands owned 
or controlled by him or them. 
Src. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and 
publication. 
Approved April 10, 1895. 
(Laws of Wisconsin, 1895, p. 260.) 
Src. 1480b. [Sec. 2, ch. 313, 1887, as amended by section 2, ch. 432, 1889.] If the 
occupant of any such lands shall fail to so destroy such weeds as so required after 
having six days’ notice in writing by any commissioner of noxious weeds, such occu- 
pant shall be fined five dollars for the first offense and ten dollars for each offense 
thereafter. 
1 Carduus arvensis. 
2Arctium lappa. 
3Chrysanthemum leucanthemum. 
4 Tinaria linaria. 
5 Xanthium canadense is probably intended, as Xanthium strumarium is unknown in 
Wisconsin. 
®Sonchus arvensis. 
7Curled dock is the approved common name of this species. 
* Brassica sinapistrum. 
°Pastinaca sativa the wild parsnip is probably meant, as the meadow parsnip, 
Thaspium barbinode is never troublesome as a weed. 
10 Melilotus. 
11 Russian thistle is Salsola kali tragus. Salsola kali is an Atlantic coast species 
which does not occur in Wisconsin. . 
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