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78 LAWS AGAINST INJURIOUS INSECTS. 
least 10 days prior to the day of such hearing, describing therein the tract com- 
plained of, the nature of the complaint, and the session of the board when 
application will be made for such hearing, naming the first day of such session, 
whereupon the hearing may be had on said day, or upon such future day as the 
board shall then appoint therefor. Such notice may be served in the manner 
as provided in section 3 of this act for the service of a copy of the order therein 
authorized. 
Sec. 3. If the board of county commissioners shall, after the hearing and 
investigation authorized by the preceding section, be of the opinion that any tract 
or parcel of land, or any portion thereof, is so infested with the eggs of grass- 
hoppers to the extent contemplated by section one (1) of this act, it shall make 
and file its order to that effect, directing therein that the owner or lessee of such 
tract or parcel plow the same within the time therein stated, and cause a copy of 
such order to be served upon such owner, or his agent or lessee, within such 
time as the board shall direct, not less than 20 days from the date of said order. 
Such copy shall be served upon such owner or lessee, if he be a resident of the 
county, in the same manner that a summons is served in a civil action; and, if 
such owner or lessee resides in another county, service thereof may be made 
upon the agent of such owner or lessee, if any, residing in the county; and if 
the owner is not a resident of this State, or his residence is unknown, and he 
has no known agent or lessee in the county. then service may be made by publi- 
cation for two consecutive weeks in a legal newspaper printed at the county 
seat of such county, the last of which publications shall be made not less than 
10 days prior to the date when the plowing ef any such tract or parcel is 
required to be commenced. 
The order of the said board authorized by this section may be in substantially 
the following form: 
- Whereas, At a meeting of the board of county commissioners of 
county, held on the day of ————, 19 —, the said board did duly hear 
and investigate relative to a complaint that the tracts or parcels of land herein- 
_after described are so infested with the eggs of grasshoppers as to be greatly 
dangerous to grasses, grains, or other crops growing, or to grow, on the lands 
situate in the vicinity of such tracts, as to threaten the destruction of a great 
part of such grasses, grains, or other crops; and 
Whereas, The said board is ef the opinion that such danger exists, the said 
tracts being described as follows: 
(Here insert description. ) 
It is hereby ordered and described that the owner (cr his lessee) of said tract 
or parcel of land shall, not later than the ——- day of ————, 190 —, begin. and 
with reasonable dispatch continue, the plowing of said tract or parcel. and ali 
thereof, and complete such plowing prior to the day of ———_, 190 —. 
(Or, if all the lands complained of are not so infested, then describe the 
portions thereof found to be so infested and required to be plowed.) 
The county auditor is hereby required to cause a copy of this order to be 
served upon the owner of the lands hereby required to be plowed. or his agent 
(or lessee), in the manner required by law for the service thereof. 
Chairman Board of County Commissioners, 
County. 
Attest : 
. County Auditor, 
Dated ———_., 
