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article entitled Garrett County as enacted by the act of eighteen hundred and seventy- 
eight, said section to be sub-titled ‘‘Thistles’”” and to come in after subsection 
seventy-five in said act, and to be numbered 75 A, 75 B, and 75 C, be and the same is 
hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows: 
75 A. No land owner or tenant of any land owner in Garrett County shall permit 
any ‘‘Canada thistles” to go to seed upon the land owned or rented by him, as the 
case may be. 
75 B. If any such land owner or tenant shall permit any Canada thistles to grow 
to seed, on the land owned or rented by him he shall be fined a sum of not less than 
one nor more than five dollars every day he shall permit the same to remain stand- 
ing on his land after the same shall have developed or grown to bear seed, such a 
fine or fines to be recovered before any justice of the peace in said county, as other 
small fines are now recovered, and the proceeds of such fine or fines to be paid to 
the county commissioners of Garrett County for the use of said county. 
75 C. No road supervisor in said county shall permit any Canada thistles to grow 
to seed upon any land belonging to any public roads in said county adjoining or 
being part of any road under his charge, and if any supervisor shall permit the same 
he shall be liable to the fine provided in sub-section seventy-five B, hereof to be 
recovered for the use of said county as provided in said last eae section. 
Approved March 10, 1892. 
(Laws of Maryland, 1892, p. 128.) 
WEECHEGAN. 
DUTIES OF SUPERVISORS. 
SEcTION 11. The said several boards of supervisors shall have power and they are 
hereby authorized, at any meeting thereof, lawfully held— 
Thirteenth. To make such laws and regulations as they may deem necessary, and 
provide for enforcing the same, for the destruction of wild beasts, of thistles, and 
other noxious weeds within the several counties. 
(Howell’s Annotated Statutes, Michigan, 1882, p. 201.) 
HIGHWAYS. 
SECTION 8. Every overseer shall cause the noxious weeds within the limits of the 
highways within his district to be cut down and destroyed twice in each year, once 
before the first day of July, and again before the first day of September, and the 
requisite labor shall be considered highway work: and once in every month, from 
the first day of April to the first day of December shall cause all the loose stones 
lying on the beaten track of every road within his district to be removed. Any 
overseer who shall refuse or neglect to perform the duties required by this section 
shall be liable to a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
(Howell’s Annotated Statutes, Michigan. 1882, p. 414.) 
CHAPTER 67. 
PROTECTION AGAINST THE SPREAD QF CANADA THISTLES. 
The people of the State of Michigan enact: 
SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of every owner, possessor, or occupier of 
land, to cut, or cause to be cut down, all the Canada thistles growing thereon, 
or on the highway passing through or by the same, so often in each and every year 
as shall be sufficient to prevent them going to seed; and if any owner, possessor or 
occupier of land shall, knowingly, suffer any Canada thistles to grow thereon, and 
the seed to ripen, so as to cause or endanger the spread thereof, he shall, upon con- 
viction, be liable to a fine of ten dollars for every such offense. 
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the overseer of highways in any township to see 
that the provisions of this act shall be carried out within their respective highway 
