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And he shall also forward a copy of said report to the secretary of the State board 
of agriculture, who shall collate and report the same to the governor by the first day 
of December of each year. 
Sec. 7. The board of town auditors, and the county commissioners in counties not 
under township organization, shali audit the accounts of the commissioner, both for 
his services and for the money expended or labor employed by him; and they shall 
provide for their payment as they now do for other town or county expenses. 
Src. 8. The boards of supervisors and county commissioners may make appropria- 
tion from the county treasury to aid in destroying the Canada thistles in the county, 
and make such provision as they may deem necessary, and impose penalties, not 
exceeding one hundred dollars for each offense, for a violation of any provisions, 
by-laws, or regulations made by them on this subject, to be sued for by the commis- 
sioner in the name and for the use of the proper county, before any justice of the 
peace having proper jurisdiction. Whenever the board of supervisors or county 
commissioners shall decide to assume control, and so long as they exercise it, their 
jurisdiction shall be superior to that of the commissioner. 
Sec. 83. And it is hereby made the duty of county boards in counties under town- 
ship organization, where town auditors have failed or refused to appoint a commis- 
sioner of Canada thistles; upon the petition of twenty-five land owners, of said 
town or adjoining town or towns, stating the failure of said board of auditors to 
appoint a commissioner for said town, and of the necessity for the same; to appoint 
a commissioner for said town, (who shall te a resident of said town), who shall hold 
his office for the same length of time, as if appointed by the board of auditors, and 
shall receive the same compensation, and said compensation shall be audited and 
allowed, and paid by the township by which he was appointed, the same as if he 
had been appointed by the board of auditors of said town; and his duties shall le 
the same, and the board of town auditors or county board may appoint so many 
assistant commissioners as they may deem necessary to thoroughly perform the 
duties in any town; which assistants shall receive the same compensation for like 
services, as the commissioner, and whose duties shall be the same, and the commis- 
sioner of Canada thistles or assistants refusing or neglecting to perform their respec- 
tive duties shall be fined in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred 
dollars for each offense, such fine to be sued for in any court of competent jurisdic- 
tion in the name of the town on complaint of any land owners of the town; said 
fine when collected to be paid to the supervisor or county commissioner and become 
a part of the town or precinct fund. 
Sec. 9. Whereas Canada thistles are growing in various parts of the State, requir- 
ing attention before the first day of July; therefore this act shall take effect and be 
in force from and after its passage. 
Approved March 15, 1872. 
(Laws 1871-72, p. 210. Revised Statutes, Illinois, Hurd, 1893, pp. 203-206.) 
CHAPTER 38. 
SECTION 40. Whoever shall bring into this State, whether in the packing of goods, 
or in grain or grass seed, or otherwise, any seed of the Canada thistle, and permit the 
same to be disseminated so as to vegetate on any land in this State, and whoever 
shall permit any Canada thistle to mature its seed on any land owned or occupied by 
him, so that the same is or may be disseminated, shall be fined not less than $10 nor 
more than $100; the fine to be paid to the commissioners of Canada thistles if any is 
appointed in the town, precinct, city or village, or otherwise as directed by law. 
Approved February 28, 1867. 
(Laws 1867, p. 79.) 
Sec. 41. If any company, association or person owning, controlling or operating a 
railroad shall refuse or neglect to dig up and destroy, or take other certain means of 
exterminating Canada thistles and other noxious weeds that may at any time be 
