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districts, and they shall give notice to the owner, possessor, or occupier of any land 
within said district whereon Canada thistles may 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, possessor or occupier shall refuse or 
neglect to cut down the said Canada thistles, the overseer of highways shall enter 
upon the land and cause all such Canada thistles to be cut down with as little dam- 
age to growing crops as may be, and he shall not be liable to be sued in any action 
of trespass therefor: Provided, That when such Canada thistles are growing upon 
non-resident lands it shall not be necessary to give notice before proceeding to cut 
down the same. 
Src. 3. Each overseer of highways shall keep an accurate account of the expenses 
incurred by him in carrying out the provisions of the preceding section of this act 
with respect to each parcel of land entered upon therefor, and shall offer a state- 
ment of such expense, describing by its legal description the land entered upon, and 
verified by oath to the owner, possessor, or occupier of such resident lands requiring 
him to pay the amount; in case such owner, possessor, or occupier shall refuse or 
neglect to pay the same within thirty days after such application, said claim shall 
be presented to the township board of the township in which such expense was 
incurred, and said township board is hereby authorized and required to audit and 
allow such claim, and order the same to be paid from the fund for general township 
purposes of said township out of any moneys in the township treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, the said overseer of highways shall also present to the said township 
board a similar statement of the expenses incurred by him in carrying out the pro- 
visions of said section upon non-resident land, and the said township board is hereby 
authorized and required to audit and allow the same in like manner. 
Src. 4. The supervisor of the township shall cause all such expenditures as have 
been so paid from the township treasury under the provisions of this act, to be sev- 
erally levied on the lands so described in the statement of the overseer of highways 
and to be collected in the same manner as delinquent highway taxes are collected, 
and the same when collected shall be paid into the township treasury to reimburse 
the outlay therefrom aforesaid. 
Src. 5. Any person who shall knowingly vend any grass or other seed, among 
which there is any seed of Canada thistle, shall, for every such offence, upon convic- 
tion, be liable to a fine of twenty dollars. 
Src. 6. It shall be the duty of the prosecutivg attorney of the county to prosecute 
all violations of the provisions of this act which shall come to his knowledge. 
SEc. 7. livery overseer of highways who shall refuse or neglect to discharge the 
duties imposed on him by the provisions of this act shall be liable to a fine of 
twenty-five dollars: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall be published in 
pamphlet form and ten copies thereof forwarded to the supervisor of each township 
in this State. 
(Howell’s Annotated Statutes, Michigan, 1882, pp. 589-590.) 
RAILROAD CORPORATIONS TO DESTROY WEEDS. 
The people of the State of Michigan enact: 
SECTION 1. That all railroad corporations doing business in this State shall, each 
year, 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, cause all noxious weeds 
growing upon lands occupied by them in any city, village, or organized township in 
this State, to be cut down and destroyed. 
Sec. 2. In case any railroad 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 to 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 corporation on whose lands said noxious weeds shall be 
