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SHADE TREES AND WEEDS. 
AN ACT to provide for the planting, maintenance, and care of shade trees upon streets, lanes, alleys, 
courts, and places within municipalities, and hedges upon the lines thereof; also, for the eradica- 
tion of certain weeds within city limits. 
SECTION 11. The city council of every municipality has jurisdiction of the hedges, 
* * * They may also condemn, as public nuisances, any or all weeds whose seeds 
are of a winged or downy nature, and are spread by the winds, and may compel the 
eradication of such weeds by the owners of the lots whereon they grow, or at their 
expense. 
Src. 13. This Act shall only apply to such municipalities as shall by vote of the 
electors residing therein determine to come within its provisions. 
Approved March 11, 1893. 
(Statutes and Amendments to the Codes of California, 1893, p. 153.) 
CONNECTICUT. 
CANADA THISTLES AND WILD CARROTS. 
SECTION 1558. Every person who shall knowingly vend any grass seed in which 
there is any seed of the Canada thistle shall be fined ten dollars. 
(General Statutes of Connecticut, 1888, p. 347. In force in 1821.) 
Src. 1574. Every owner or possessor of lands shall cut down all wild carrots and 
Canada thistles growing thereon, or in the highway adjoining, so often as to prevent 
their going to seed; and upon failure to do so, any person aggrieved, or any citizen 
of the town wherein the lands are situated, may complain to any grand juror of said 
town, who shall thereupon forthwith notify such owner or possessor of such com- 
plaint and said grand juror shall be paid for such service from the treasury of the 
town ten cents for each mile of travel in giving such notice. And if said owner or 
possessor shall still neglect to comply with the provision of this section, he shall be 
fined not more than five dollars, nor Jess than one dollar, for each and every day of 
such neglect after said notice. And the expense of the grand juror who served the 
notice shall be included in the costs of the prosecution. 
Sec. 1575. City and police courts shall have jurisdiction over the preceding sec- 
tion occurring within the territorial limits over which such courts exercise jurisdic- 
tion. And complaints may be made to the judge of any court, who shall forthwith 
issue the notice therein prescribed, to be served by a proper officer; and the fee for 
serving the same shall be ten cents for each mile of travel, payable by the city 
instead of the town, but, when followed by prosecution, to be included in and pay- 
able as part of the costs. 
It shall be the duty of officers authorized to prosecute in said courts to prosecute 
all violations of said section within their jurisdiction. 
(General Statutes of Connecticut, 1888, pp. 349-350. In force in 1821.) 
DELAWARE. 
CANADA THISTLES. 
CHAPTER 687.—An act to prevent the spread of Canada thistles. 
Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the State of Delaware in 
general assembly met: 
SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of every owner, tenant, and occupier of land 
im this State to cut down, or cause to be cut down, all the Canada thistles growing 
thereon, so after! in each and every year as shall be sufficient to prevent them from 
going toseed. If any such owner, tenant, or occupier of land shall knowingly suffer 
any such Canada thistles to grow thereon, and the seed to ripen so as to cause or 
'So enrolled, for ‘‘so often.” 
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