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an amount equal to the cost of such labor as a tax against all lands not public high- 
ways, upon which such noxious weeds are destroyed 
Src. 8. If the owner or occupant of any such lands or the overseer of any highway, 
or the board of county commissioners in any county of this state shall fail to comply 
with any of the requirements of this act, they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor: 
Provided, If any county attorney shall fail or refuse to prosecute, then the court in 
which the complaint was brought or pending may appoint some reputable practicing 
attorney to conduct such prosecution, who shall, in such event, receive the fees 
provided for in such eases. 
Sec. 9. The county attorney shall be liable under his bond for any failure to comply 
with the provisions of this act. 
Src. 10. Notices to the owner of the land provided to be given under the provisions 
of this act shall be made in the same manner as summons in the district court. 
Src. 11. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, are 
hereby repealed. 
Src. 12. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in 
the official state paper. 
Approved by the governor March 6, 1895. 
(Published April 19, 1895. Laws of Kansas for 1895, pp. 529-531.) 
KENTUCKY. 
CONTROLLING WEEDS. 
CHAPTER 13.—Act December 3, 1892. 
SECTION 200. It shall be the duty of every person or persons, and of every corpo- 
ration holding lands in this Commonwealth, either by lease or otherwise, on which 
any Canada thistles or weeds commonly known as Canada thistles, may be growing, 
to cut the same, so as to prevent such weeds or thistles from going to seed and the 
seed of the same from ripening. Any person or persons, or corporation as aforesaid, 
who shall knowingly neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act, 
shall forfeit and pay a fine of five dollars, recoverable before any justice of the 
peace, or by indictment in the circuit courts of the State. 
Sec. 201. If any person or persons, or corporation, so holuing land as aforesaid on 
which Canada thistles or the weeds commonly known as such, shall be growing 
and likely to ripen seed thereon, shall knowingly neglect or refuse to cut and 
destroy the same go as to prevent the seed thereof from ripening, it shall and may 
be lawful for any person or persons, who may consider themselves aggrieved or 
about to be injured by such neglect or refusal, to give five days’ notice in writing to 
such person or persons, or corporation, to cut and destroy such weeds or thistles, 
and on their neglect or refusal to cut and destroy the same at the end of five days, 
it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons aggrieved, or believing them- 
selves about to be injured thereby, to enter upon such lands or premises, and cut 
down and destroy such Canada thistles. And the persons so employed shall be 
entitled to recover from such person or persons, or corporation, owning or holding 
such lands, compensation at the rate of one dollar per day, to be recovered as debt 
of Jike amount in any court of this Commonwealth of competent jurisdiction. 
Approved Dee. 3, 1892. 
(Acts, 1892, p.389. The Kentucky Statutes, 1894, p. 229.) 
WARYLAND. 
CANADA THISTLE. 
CHAPTER 79. 
Be it enacted by the general assembly of Maryland: 
SECTION 1. That chapter seventy-three of the acts of eighteen hnndred and eighty- 
two entitled an act to add additional sections to the code of Public Local Laws 
