Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-05-09

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NOXIOUS WEED LAW.
Cha pter 81, H. B. It's, as amended by
S, B. 21, of the laws of 1895. Pre-
scribing Manner for Destroying Nox'
ious Weeds:
Be 1t Enacted By the Legislative assembly O
the State Of North Dakota:
Sec. l. NoxIOUs WEEDS DEFINED
MANNER OF DESTROYING TO BE PRE-
scR1BED.] Every person and every cor
poration shall destroy upon all lands,
which any such person or corporation
shall own or occupy, all weeds of the
kind known as Canada thistle, cookie
burr, mustard, wild oats French weeds,
(carena fatua) and Russian cactus
(Sobso]a Colinapall) at such time and
in such manner as shall effectually pre-
vent their bearing seed. Such time
and manner of destroying such weeds
shall be prescribed by the board of
county commissioners, and the same
shall be published at least two weeks
in some newspaper in the county, not
less than two weeks before the time so
prescribed; Provided further, That if
there be no newspaper published in the
county, then written notices of the
same shall be posted the same as elec-
tion notices are posted in lieu of such
publications.
Sec. 2. DECISION TO BE PUBLISHED.
It shall be the duty of the board of
county commissioners at their regular
meetings in April Of each year, to de-
termine the time and manner of de-
stroying such noxious weeds, and shall
cause such decision to be published as
provided for in Section l of this act.
They shall also cause to be mailed to
the chairman of each board of town.
ship supervisors and to every over
seerpf highways and road supervisor
in the county copy of their proceedings
3; SEC. 3. Whenever any individual,
corporation, owning or occupy
gany lands within this state shall
neglset Or refuse to comply with the
provisions of this act for more than ten
days after the time prescribed by said
board of county commissioners then
it shall be the duty of the overseer or
road supervisor, as the case may be, to
proceed forthwith to destroy the same
in the manner provided for said de-
struction by the board of county COM
missioners; it shall also be the duty of
such overseers or road supervisors, to
destroy all such noxious weeds that
may grow on the highways, railroad
right of ways and school sections and
timber culture claims of his road dis
trict, and for so doing, such overseer or
road supervisor shall have such COM
pensation, payable out of the township
treasury, or county treasury, as the
township board of supervisors or the
board of county commissioners, upon
presentation of his account thereof,
verified by oath and specifying by sepe-
rate items, the charges upon each piece
of land shall deem reasonable, and the
respective accounts so far as right
shall be allowed, and paid by the said
township board or board of county
commissioners. and upon this being SO
allowed the said board of supervisors
OF board of county commissioners shall
take proper proceedings in the district
court of the county in which said land
is to obtain judgment against each of
said tracts of land and the owner or
owners thereof for the amount ex-
pended on said lands under this act, for
the destruction of noxious weeds there
on, to pay the expenses of said destruc-
tion and all costs that have since &C
crued under this act and in obtaining
judgment therefore, which judgment
shall be declared first lien on said
land to be enforced either by judgment
sale or as accrued taxes on the lands are
collected at the option of the court.
Sec. 4. PENALTY Whenever any
overseer of highways OF road supervi-
sor shall neglect or refuse to comply
with the provisions of this acts, after
having received notice as provided in
Section of this act, he shall be subject
to fine of Fifty (5O) dollars, and it is
hereby made the duty of the states at
torney to enforce the provisions of
this act.
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