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Sec. 2. Said commission shall meet annually at the seat of government on the 
first Monday of and be in session tor a period not exceeding days; and 
for such service each commissioner who is not a salaried officer of the State shall be 
entitled to be paid dollars a day for each day’s actual attendance at the annual 
session, and mileage at the rate of —— cents a mile for his time and expenses in 
traveling from the place of his abode to the place of holding the session, and the 
same rate returning therefrom to the place of his abode, to be computed by the usual 
route of travel. Said compensation and the necessary expenses of the commission 
for stationery, printing, and postage shall be paid by the State treasurer out of any 
moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, upon vouchers issued by the 
secretary of the commission and approved by the chairman. 
Sec. 3. The governor shall when necessary assign a room at the State Capitol 
for the use of the commission in which to hold its annual sessions. Three commis- 
sioners shall constitute a quorum. The State botanist [or similar State officer] shall 
be custodian of the records, and, when present, be chairman of the commission. 
Sec. 4. Said commission, or a majority thereof, shall determine during its first 
session what species of weeds, not exceeding five in number, are most injurious to 
the interests of the farming community, and shall prepare a list thereof to be known 
as Schedule A of this act, which shall state the common and technical names of such 
weeds and the time or times of year at which they can be most advantageously 
destroyed, and shall also contain a concise description of the best economical methods 
for their destruction. And said schedule may thereafter be modified at any annual 
session of the commission by a majority thereof: Provided, That not exceeding the 
above number of species of weeds shall be included in any annual schedule. 
New weeds are being introduced and in some cases old ones are 
becoming less troublesome. Therefore frequent changes will be found 
necessary for the best results, and the list should be so arranged that 
the changes desired can be readily made. When anew weed is intro- 
duced it is often important that it be proscribed at once without wait- 
ing for the legislature to act. The list may well be limited in length, 
as less than a score of species are very injurious in any one State during 
the same term of years, and, if the list is made too long, it will increase 
the difficulties of enforcing the law and tend to lessen activity against 
the most important weeds. Both the common and the technical names 
of the weeds to be destroyed should be given. The technical names 
are necessary since the common names are not sufficiently definite, one 
common name often referring to two or more species, or one plant being 
known by different names in different parts of the same State. It may 
‘be necessary to provide legal safeguards for the changes to be made in 
the list, but the careful judgment of the commission should be inter- 
fered with as little as is consistent with constitutional requirements. 
As different species of weeds produce seeds at different seasons and 
the same species often matures at different dates in different parts 
of the same State, it is evidently impossible to specify the best dates for 
the destruction of all weeds in all parts of the State in the general law. 
The decision regarding these dates and the publication of the dates 
determined might well be left to the boards of county commissioners 
were it not that the duty might be neglected in some cases. 
Src. 5. When at its first session, or at any annual session thereafter, the commis- 
sion shall have adopted a schedule, or shall have modified one previously adopted, 
