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so cut, at the rate of three dollars per day for the time necessarily occupied in cut-- 
ting, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State. 
Approved March 27, 1891. 
(Public Acts, Michigan, 1891, p. 15.) 
PusLic Act No. 160. 
GRAVEL AND PLANK ROAD COMPANIES TO DESTROY WEEDS. 
The people of the State of Michigan enact: 
SECTION 1. That all gravel or plank road companies doing business in this State 
shall, between the fifteenth day of June and the first day of July, and again between 
the fifteenth day of August and the first day of September in each year, cause all 
noxious weeds growing on the lands occupied by them in any village or organized 
township of this State, to be cut down and destroyed. 
Src. 2. In case any gravel or plank road company shall refuse or neglect to com- 
ply with the requirements specified in the first section of this act, it shall be liable 
in a penalty of twenty-five dollars, to be prosecuted for in action of debt by any 
person feeling himself aggrieved. Said suit may be brought before any justice of the 
peace of the county who shall require of the complainant surety to pay the costs in - 
case he fails to maintain his action. Summons may be served on any agent or officer 
of the company. 
Sec. 3. In case any such gravel or plank road company shall refuse or neglect to 
comply with the requirements specified in the first section of this act, then it shall 
be lawful for any highway officer or commissioner to cut or cause to be cut said 
noxious weeds, between the first and fifth days of July, inclusive, and between the 
first and fifth days of September, inclusive, in each year at the expense of the cor- 
poration on whose lands said noxious weeds shall be cut, at the rate of three dollars 
per day for the time necessarily occupied in cutting, to be recovered in any court of 
competent jurisdiction in this State. 
This act is ordered to take immediate sac 
Approved June 24, 1891. 
(Public Acts, Michigan, 1891, pp. 201-202.) 
PREVENTION OF THE SPREAD OF MILKWEED. 
The people of the State of Michigan enact: 
SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of every owner, occupant or person having 
charge of lands in this State to cut down, or cause to be cut down, all milkweed, 
asclepias cornutus,! growing thereon, or on land between the center of any highway 
and said lands, or in any highway passing through the same, in each and every year 
so often as shall be sufficient to prevent said milkweed going to seed; and if any 
owner, occupant or person having charge of such lands shall knowingly suffer any 
such milkweed to grow thereon, and the same to ripen so as to cause or endanger 
the spreading thereof he shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine of ten dollars, 
together with the cost of prosecution, and in default of payment of the same impris- 
oned in the county jail of the county where the land is situated, for a-period not 
exceeding twenty days. 
Src. 2. When any overseer of highways shall have knowledge or information that 
milkweed is growing upon any lands in his highway district, contrary to the pro- 
visions of this act, he shall see to it that the provisions of this act are carried out 
within his highway district, and he shall give a written notice to the owner, occu- 
pant or person having charge of such lands, describing the same by their legal 
subdivisions within his highway district whereon milkweed shall be growing and 
in danger of going to seed, requiring him to cause the same to be cut down within 
five days from the service of such notice, and in case such owner, occupant or person 
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