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SEc. 1480c. [Sec. 3, ch. 813, 1887.] Whenever it shall become necessary to serve 
notice as provided in section 2 of this act [Sec. 1480 b,] upon any railroad or other 
corporation owning or controlling any lands in any town, such notice, if served upon 
any agent of such corporation residing or being in said town, shall be deemed good 
and sufficient notice, and if no such agent shall reside or be in such town, then such 
notice may be served upon any agent of such corporation who shall reside or be in 
any adjoining town. 
Sec. 1480d. [Sec. 4, ch. 313, 1887, as amended by sec. 3, ch. 432, 1889.] It shall be 
the duty of the chairman of the board of supervisors of each town, the president of 
the village board of any village, and the mayor of any city, to appoint some compe- 
tent person or persons, in their own town, village or city, to be styled commissioner 
of noxious weeds, who shall be required to take the same oath as town officers, and 
hold his or their office for one year, and until his or their successors are appointed 
and qualified. Where more than one commissioner is appointed in any town, city, 
or village they shall be assigned separate and distinct districts or territories. For 
any good cause any such commissioner may be removed by the officer appointing 
him, and a successor appointed to fill the unexpired term. 
(Annotated Statutes of Wisconsin, Sanborn & Berryman, 1889, pp. 907-908. ) 
Sec. 1480e. [Sec. 5, ch. 313, 1887, as amended by Sec. 2, ch. 145, 1893.| The com- 
missioner shall carefully inquire concerning the existence of noxious weeds in his. 
township or precinct, and in case any person, persons or corporation owning, occu 
pying or controlling any lands therein, shall neglect to destroy any Canada thistle, 
burdocks, snapdragon, white or ox-eye daisy, cockle burr, sow thistle, sour dock, 
yellow dock, mustard, wild parsnip, or sweet clover, standing or growing on any 
lands owned or controlled by him or them or upon any highway, lane or alley 
adjoining such lands as far as the center of such highway, lane or alley, it shall be 
the duty of the commissioner to destroy or cause to be destroyed all such weeds. He 
shall spend as many days at such work of destruction as the chairman of the town 
board, president of the village, or mayor of the city may deem necessary, and for 
each day so spent shall receive the sum of two dollars upon presentation of his 
account therefor, verified by his oath, and specifying by separate items the amount 
against each piece of land, describing the same; and the several amounts shall be 
placed in the next tax roll in a separate column headed, ‘‘ For destruction of weeds,” 
as a tax upon the lands upon which such weeds were destroyed, and be-collected as 
other taxes. 
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and 
publication. 
Approved April 12, 1893. 
(Laws of Wisconsin, 1893, p. 170.) 
Src. 1480f. [Sec. 6, ch. 313, 1887.] When any commissioner shall destroy any 
noxious weeds under the provisions of this act, upon lands owned or controlled by 
any railroad corporation, the said commissioner shall certify to the amount of money 
he is entitled to under the provisions of this act, to the board of supervisors of his 
town, who shall transmit a certified copy of said certificate to the State treasurer, 
who shall inelude the amount of money in said certificate in the amount to be paid 
for a license by said corporation as provided in section 1213, of the revised statutes. 
of 1878; and the State treasurer shall collect the same from said corporation, as pre- 
scribed in the license provided in section 1212 and 1213, of the revised statutes, and 
return the money to the town from which such certificate was transmitted. 
SEC. 1480g. [Sec. 5, ch. 432, 1889.] Any chairman of a town board, or the mayor 
of the city who shall refuse or neglect to appoint one or more thistle commissioners, 
as provided in section 4, of said chapter, within thirty days next following their 
election, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars 
and costs, on complaint made in writing by any resident of the county to a justice 
of the peace, or magistrate in such county. Any weed commissioner, after taking 
