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or corporation or officer, or to an agent of any said person or corporation, by any 
person, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished accordingly. 
Src. 3. That it shall be the duty of all persons knowing of the presence of Rus- 
sian thistles upon any premises, lands, lots, streets or highways or elsewhere at any 
time, to give notice in writing to the owner, occupant, or person or corporation in 
control, or their agent, and if not destroyed by the owner or occupants to give notice 
immediately after the 15th day of September of that year to the chairman of the 
township board of trustees, or if within an incorporated town or city, then to the 
mayor, who shall before the 20th day of said month of September cause the same to 
be cut and burned or otherwise entirely destroyed. The reasonable cost of destroy- 
ing said thistles shall be paid out of the general county fund on the certificate of 
the board of township trustees, or city or town council, of the amount of the same, 
by the county board of supervisors. The said board of supervisors shall cause the 
amount so paid to be levied as a special tax against the premises on which said 
thistles have been destroyed and against the persons or corporation owning the 
premises, and the county treasurer shall collect the same as any other taxes and 
return it to the county fund. 
Sec. 4. That a bulletin shall be prepared by the professor of agriculture of the 
State Agricultural College, briefly describing by words and cuts the Russian thistle, 
with the best known means of staying its progress and effecting its extermination. 
Said bulletin shall be printed by the State printer at public expense, from time to 
time, in such numbers as the secretary of state and said professor of agriculture may 
deem necessary to supply thedemand. Asum of money sufficient to pay for the cost 
of printing and making of suitable plates for illustrating said bulletin is hereby 
appropriated from any funds in the State treasury not otherwise previously appro- 
priated. . 
Src. 5. The secretary of state shall furnish to the agricultural college such a num- 
ber of said bulletins as it may desire to circulate, and also to county auditors on 
their requisition, in such numbers as may be necessary to supply all township and 
town or city officers with copies and a sufficient number to distribute to all farmers 
desiring the same. 
Src. 6. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect and be in 
force from and after publication in the Iowa State Register, a newspaper published 
at Des Moines, Iowa, and in the Lyon County Reporter, a newspaper published at 
Rock Rapids, Iowa. 
(in force in 1893.) 
KANSAS. 
OBNOXIOUS WEEDS. 
Be it enacted by the legislature of Kansas: 
SECTION 5517. It shall be the duty of the road overseers of the several counties of 
the State to remove, or cause to be removed, at least once each year, between the 
fifteenth day of June and the fifteenth day of July, in the public highways, all 
cockleburs, Rocky Mountain sand burs, burdocks, sunflower, Canada thistles, and 
such other obnoxious weeds as may be injurious to the best interests of the farming 
community. 
Sec. 5519. The road overseers in the several counties in this State are hereby 
directed to carry section one of this act into effect under the provisions of chapter 
one hundred and eight (108) of the Session Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy 
four. 
This law shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the 
official state paper. 
Approved March 8, 1883. 
(Laws 1883, p. 224.) 
