New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-05-22
the Russian thistle Is hereby declared Z
efficient action on the part Of the state for

Its a bHtement.
. Sec. = Amy person or persons, company
land within this state. whether said land
z be within the limits OF any village or city
or elsewhere. or having the control Of any
surfer any Russian thistle to grow or re-
main M thereon after the expiration Of the
gate "a named In the notice as provided for
misdemeanor and Of maintaining a public
nuisance, and, on conviction thereof before
any any court having jurisdiction, shall be pun
i islem ~ fine not exceeding one hundred
siiS!uU) dollars. nor less than ten ($1O) dol
a,is; and costs of prosecution. And the
nnd1lng OF such thistle or thistles standing
da ata GROWING ne,mn on any such land after the
tio,l evidence that the person or corpora
L siOn owning or occupying the same or
permitted the same to grow and remain
Sec. 3. For the purpose of fixing "a time
may be destroyed by public authority, it
Is hereby made the duty of the board of
county unity commissioners to fix, by resolution,
thistles standing or growing in their re-
soective counties. Notice Of such time
shall be forthwith published by the county
a aor 1h IN the official paper Of the county
auditor shall at once mail notice to each
town clerk in his county, and notice Of
such time shall be forthwith posted by each
town clerk in the usual places for posting
such public notices i'll each town, and such
time shall be SO fixed and notice thereof
given, as above provided, early enough each
destroy such thistles to do the same in
tlme to prevent them from maturing seeds
And It Is hereby made the duty of all own
towns, counties, villages or cities to de-
stroy all such thistles growing on their
lands lands at or before the expiration Of the
50 the public authorities shall destroy the
same at the expense of said owners or oc-
c c as hereinafter provided. 1t shall
notify the division superintendent of ali
aaa5iW! runway within the county Of which he is.
oudltor of the date set. by the board Of
county commissioners before which all Rus
sian thistles must be destroyed.
Sec 4. Every board of town supervisors,
or IN case OF, organized towns, the board Of
lagos or cities, the village or city council
Shall appoint one or more persons, to be
knoWn as weed agents. for each township
or smaller district, whose duty it shall be
to destroy or cause to be destroyed in such
district as shall be definitely allotted to
MIN by the town or county board or by the
ton of the time for the destruction thereof
by others, all Russian thistles found grow
ing on the public highways or streets in
the time fixed for the destruction of such
thistles by the owners or occupants Of
lands, as provided in section, 8 of this act,
CdSu NcSu uSVHI SIlil1l destroy or cause TO
be DESTROYED before the time such thistles
mature seeds all such thistles found stand
ing and growing on the lands within his
district other than public highways. and
upon any such land, if he have reason to
believe that such thistles. are growing there
on; provided, however that no town su;;
agent" For these Services such weed
agents and persons employed by them
shall be entitled to such compensation as
CT n1 hn SH-p1 lry+t Tho hon malta
pointing them.
Sec. s. It shall be the duty of such weed
agent to present to the board of super
organized, to the county commissioners, or
i'll villages or cities to the village or city
council, an itemized account, verified under
of land, with the name Of owner and occu-
pant, upon which Russian thistles have
been destroyed by said weed agent or per-
sons employed by him.. and the amount
He shall also in like manner make state
ment showing the cost of destroying the
thistles upon public highways.
Sec. 6. It shall be the duty Of the board
of township supervisors, or where towns
sioners, or in villages or cities, Of the vii
LACE or city council to audit the ACCOUNTS
struction Of Russian thistles. on the public
| highways and streets. and to pay the
amount allowed out of the general town ,;a
of the county fund if audited by the county
board, or out of the village or city fund
if audited by the village or city council.
of supervisors to audit the bills presented
by the weed agents for the destruction OF
Russian thistles on highways. or, under
his direction, on lands Other than puo o "a;
parcel or lot of land shall be certified by
the board of supervisors or by the village
or city council to the board of ee1 mt h com nj
Of county commissioners, in case OF towns
not organized, the board of county commits.
sioners alone shall audit and approve at
any regular or special meeting and after r
| the expiration of thirty days if appeal is
not taken from the action Of the. county
commissioners. as the law provides IN other
auditor to draw a warrant upon the county
treasurer for the amount allowed: and the
county auditor shall certify to the state
auditor the full! amount allowed by .. the the
county commissioners for the destruction
OF Russian thistles in the county; and upon
receipt of the certificate of the county
auditor of the counties where Russian THIS
ties have been destroyed as provided for j., in
this act, the state auditor shall draw his
warrant upon the state treasurer In fayoI
Of each for the full and inc
urer shall hnmediately pay the amount So
Sec. S. The sum OF twenty ,hVe thousano
(S25 OOO dollars. or as much thereof as may
be necessary, DIS hereby appropriated out
of any money in the treasury, not other
wise appropriated, for each of the years
carry out the provisions of this act, ana
the same shall be KNOWN as the Russian
thistle fund.
auditor to enter upon the tax list in sep.
arate column for the purpose. headed t ,1
the Destruction of Russian Thistles: the
amount allowed by the county COMMISSION
ers and actually expended for the destruc,
tion of the Russian thistle as a tax upon
each separate parcel or lot OF land upon
which such thistles were destlo;Eeo ~ + nc
act to be collected as other land taxes are
collected and the entry OF such TAX upon
the tax roll shall be CONCLUSIVE evidence u
the liability of the land so taxed to such
Sec. 10. The county treasurer shall i'm
mediately after such settlement IN t re 4ho
treasurer of the state all moneys received
by him arising from taxes levied and col
lected belonging to the state taking dgpl1;;
be placed on file in the Office of the county
Sec. II. If any township supervisor or
village or city councilman or county com
missioner or weed agent shall knowingly
and willfully neglect or refuse to perform
any of his or their duties prescribed, by
this act, upon conviction thereof shall
pay a fine Of not more than one hundred
1S1OO) dollars, nor less than twenty -flve
($25) dollars; and 1t shall be the duty OF the
county attorney upon the complaint OF any
taxpayer in the county to bring action and
prosecute the same.
Sec. f. All moneys arising from the col.
lecting of fines shall be paid to the town
treasurer in organized towns, or in case
of towns not organized, to the county
treasurer, or in villages and cities to the
village or city treasurer and placed by him
to the credit of the general town, county
village or city fund respectively.
Sec. -. Upon petition Of the. owner OF
owners of any lands in the state to tho
district court Of the county in which the
land tax for the, destruction Of Russian
thistles is located, the Judge OF the dis
hear the evidence, and where the paymen
Of the tax will work extreme hardship hi
may make such order and grant such RELIEF