[TIME FOR WAR ON WEEDS]
Brandon Times, July 20, 1882

   As it is about time for a war on weeds the attention of all concerned, especially road overseers and the street commissioner is called to the following extract from the revised statutes:
   Every person and every corporation shall destroy upon all lands which he or it shall occupy all weeds of the kind known as snapdragon, cocklebur, Canadian thistle and burdock, at such time and in such manner, as shall effectually prevent their bearing seed. Every overseer of highways shall also, in like time and manner, destroy all such weeds that may grow, either on the highway of his road district or any unoccupied lands therein, or any occupied lands therein which the occupant thereof shall neglect to so destroy. For so doing, such overseer shall have such compensation payable out of the town treasury, as the town board, upon the presentation of his account therefor, verified by his oath, and specifying by separate items the charges against such piece of land, describing the same, shall deem reasonable; and the respctive amounts so paid except for destruction of such weeds upon highways, shall be placed on the next tax roll, in a separate column headed "for destruction of weeds" as a tax against the lands upon which such weeds were destroyed, and be collected as other taxes and the entry of such tax upon the tax roll shall be conclusive evidence of the land so taxed to be liable for such tax.