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having charge of said lands shall refuse or neglect to cut or cause to be cut down 
the said milkweed, the overseer of highways shall enter upon the land where said 
milkweed is growing and cause all such milkweed to be cut down and destroyed, 
doing as little damage as may be while in the performance of such duty, and the 
said overseer of highways shall not be liable for so entering upon said lands for the 
purpose of performing such duty except for any actual damage to the crops growing 
thereon which shall result from his willful and unlawful act or gross negligence: 
Provided, That when such milkweed is found growing upon non-resident lands and 
no one to the knowledge or information of said overseer of highways shall have 
charge thereof it shall not be necessary to give notice before proceeding to cut down 
such milkweed. 
Src. 3. Each overseer of highways shall keep an accurate account of the expenses 
incurred and time employed by him in carrying out the provisions of section two of 
this act with respect to each parcel of land so entered upon, and for the time:so 
employed he shall be entitled to charge at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents 
per day and seventy-five cents for each half day by him actually and necessarily 
employed while performing said duty, and when said duty shall have been per- 
formed in the destruction of milkweed growing on resident lands, or on lands in the 
charge of any person known to said overseer of highways he shall present a state- 
ment duly verified of such charges, describing the land whereon the same were 
incurred by its legal description, to the owner, occupant or custodian, and demand 
of him payment therefor. When any overseer of highways shail incur any expense 
or employ any time in the destruction of milkweed found growing on non-resident 
lands as provided in section two of this act, he shall make out a complete statement 
showing such expenses and time employed, and for which time employed he may 
charge at the same rate as for duties performed relative to resident lands, and shall 
file such statement with the township clerk as hereinafter provided. 
Src. 4. In case the owner, occupant or custodian of any lands shall neglect or 
refuse for the space of thirty days to pay the charges of such overseer as specified in 
section three of this act, it shall be the duty of said overseer of highways to file such 
statement of charges with the township clerk of the township wherein such charges 
were incurred five days before the last Saturday of September of each year, and he 
shall also file within the same time with the said township clerk the aforesaid state- 
ment of charges incurred relative to all non-resident lands in his highway district. 
On the said last Saturday of September it shall be the duty of the township boards 
of the several townships of this State, with township clerk of which any statement 
of charges provided for in this act shall have been filed, to meet at the township 
clerk’s office at the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon for the purpose of auditing 
and allowing such charges. Said meeting shall be called by the township clerk by 
written notice served on each member of the board three days before the date fixed 
for said meeting. When such meeting of said township board shall have been called 
by the township clerk as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said township board to 
meet as herein provided and audit all claims for charges found on file with the said 
township clerk, and at which meeting it shall be the right of all parties interested. 
therein to appear before said board and be heard with reference to the legality and 
amount of such charges. 
Src. 5. The ameunt of all claims for charges in this act provided for, which shall 
be audited and allowed by any township board, shall be paid to the several overseers 
of highways entitled thereto from the township treasury in the same manner as other 
charges allowed against townships are paid. 
Src. 6. The township clerk, after the allowance, shall make a statement of all 
such claims as have been so allowed under the provisions of this act, with a descrip- 
tion of the lands relative to which such charges have been allowed, to the supervisor 
of the township who shall cause the several amounts so allowed to be levied on the 
landsso described in a separate column in the tax roll of his township, and which taxes 
so spread shall, in all respects, be collected or returned in the same manner as other 
