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purpose whatever, any living Mexican cotton boll weevil or cotton boll, square, 
plant, or seed containing said insect, whether in the adult, egg, larval, or pupal 
state. 
Src. 9. This commission reserves the right to take such action as it deems 
best to eradicate or control the Mexican cotton boll weevil, should this pest 
appear in the State. 
Sec. 10. Any person, firm, or corporation, transportation company, or common 
carrier which shall willfully violate these regulations shall be guilty of a misde- 
meanor, and on conviction shall be punished according to law. And any ship- 
ment made in violation of these regulations is liable to seizure by order of this 
commission or its agents, and destroyed by them or shipped without the State 
to the point from which such shipment originated. 
NORTH DAKOTA. 
[LAw RELATING TO GRASSHOPPERS (1897).] 
No. 1705. Notice, how and when served. Where the owner of the land on 
which said board shall have decided plowing must be done for the purposes 
herein specified cannot with reasonable diligence be served with notice within 
the State, it shall be sufficient to serve the said notice by publication thereof for 
two successive issues in the official newspaper nearest said tract. 
No. 1706. Must plow in five days. If the owner or incumbranecer, if any, 
shall fail to plow said tract or tracts as ordered and directed by said board of 
county commissioners within five days after notice as herein provided, then in 
that event said board of county commissioners shall cause said tract or tracts 
to be plowed, or so much thereof as may be by them deemed necessary, and 
audit and pay for said work out of the general fund of said county upon war- 
rant as in other cases made and provided. 
No. 1707. Hapense a lien upon land. Immediately after the said accounts are 
audited and paid by said county commissioners it shall be the duty of the 
county auditor to certify to the county treasurer the amount so expended upon 
each piece and parcel of land, which certificate shall contain the name of the 
record owner or incumbrancer of said tract, a true description of said land, the 
amount paid by the county for plowing done thereon, and the county treasurer 
shall thereupon enter said amount against said land as taxes are entered 
against land, and the said amount shall constitute a lien upon said land prior to 
all other incumbrances, and shall bear interest at the rate of seven per cent per 
annum from date of entry by the county treasurer, and collection thereof may 
thereafter be made and enforced in the same manner as delinquent taxes are 
enforced and collected against real property. 
No. 1708. Payment out of general fund. When the board of county commis- 
sioners shall deem the plowing of State land necessary for the purposes herein 
specified, they shall order the same done, and payment therefor may be made 
out of the general fund of the county upon warrant as in other cases provided: 
Provided, however, That no growing crops shall be destroyed under the pro- 
visions of this article: Provided further, That where the board of county com- 
missioners shall deem it necessary to cause plowing upon Government land 
held by resident claimants, or other means to cause the destruction of grass- 
koppers and Rocky Mountain locusts, said claimant shall be liable to the county 
in a civil action for all moneys necessarily expended in carrying out the direc- 
tions of the board of county commissioners for the purposes herein specified. 
