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(2) dollars upon presentation of his account therefor, verified by his oath and speci- 
fying 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 the destruction of weeds,” and extended as a tax against the lands 
adjoining such highway, upon which such weeds were destroyed, and be collected 
as other taxes. 
Src. 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, 
save that nothing herein contained shall be construed as repealing or affecting any 
of the provisions of any act heretofore or hereafter passed, entitled ‘‘An act to pro- 
vide for the destruction of a weed commonly known as Russian thistle, and to appro- 
priate money therefor.” 
Src. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
Approved April 26, 1895. 
(General Laws of Minnesota for 1895, pp. 651-653. ) 
RUSSIAN THISTLE. 
SECTION 1. The weed commonly known as Russian thistle is hereby declared a 
public nuisance, demanding prompt and efficient action on the part of the State for 
its abatement. 
Sec. 2. Any person or persons, company or corporation, owning or occupying any 
land within this State, whether said land be within the limits of any village or city, 
or elsewhere, or having the control of any such land, who shall knowingly permit 
or suffer any Russian thistle to grow or remain thereon after the expiration of the 
_ date named in the notice as provided for in section three, shall be deemed guilty of 
a misdemeanor, and of maintaining a public nuisance, and, on conviction thereof 
before any court having jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one 
hundred ($100) dollars, nor less than ten ($10) dollars and costs of prosecution. 
And the finding of such thistle or thistles standing and growing on any such land 
after the date named in the notice shall be prima facie evidence that the person or 
corporation owning or occupying the same or having the control thereof, knew of 
and permitted the same to grow and remain thereon. 
Sec. 3. For the purpose of fixing a time after the expiration of which such thistles 
may be destroyed by public authority, it is hereby made the duty of the board of 
county commissioners to fix by resolution, a time for the destruction of all Russian 
thistles standing or growing in the respective counties. Notice of such time shall be 
forthwith published by the county auditor in the official paper of the county for 
three successive weeks, and the county auditor shall at once mail notice to each 
town clerk in his county, and notice of such time shall be forthwith posted by each 
town clerk in the usual places for posting such public notices in each town, and 
such time shall be so fixed and notice thereof given, as above provided, early enough 
each season to enable those whose duty it is to destroy such thistles to do the same 
in time to prevent them from maturing seeds. 
And it is hereby made the duty of all owners and occupants of lands within such 
towns, counties, villages or cities to destroy all such thistles growing on their lands 
at or before the expiration of the time so fixed; and if they shall fail to do so, the 
public authorities shall destroy the same at the expense of said owners or occupants 
as hereinafter provided. 
It shall also be the duty of the county auditor to notify the division superintend- 
ents of all railways within the county of which he is auditor of the date set by the 
board of county commissioners before which all Russian thistles must be destroyed. 
Src. 4. Every board of town supervisors, or in case of unorganized towns, the 
board of county commissioners, or in case of villages or cities the village or city 
council shall appoint one or more persons to be known as “‘ weed agents” for each 
township or smaller district whose duty it shall be to destroy or cause to be destroyed 
in such district as shall be definitely allotted to him by the town or county board or 
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