XIV ILLINOIS STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



SYNOPSIS OF STATE LAWS, 



AFFECTING HORTICULTURE. 



1. An Act approved Feb. 26, 1861, provides with fine of from ten to fifty dollars 

 and imprisonment not exceeding twenty days for entering an inclosure and taking or 

 destroying fruit. 



2. An Act approved Feb. 16, 1865, is a re-enactment of the above, (No. i). 



3. An Act approved Feb. 16, 1865, provides that any one injuring or destroying 

 any fruit or other trees, shrubs, etc., of another, shall be fined not exceeding five hundred 

 dollars and imprisoned not more than three months — or both. 



An Act to encourage the Planting and Growing of Timber. 

 (Approved February 9, 1874. In force July i, 1874.) 



Section I. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois rep7'esented in the 

 General Assembly, That it shall be lawful for the Board of Supervisors, or County Com- 

 missioners' Court, in any county in this State, to offer a bounty to any person in said 

 county who shall hereafter plant one or more acres of land with forest trees, and prop- 

 erly cultivate the same for three years, any sum not to exceed $10 per annum for three 

 years for each acre so planted and cultivated ; provided, that trees so planted shall not 

 be at a greater distance than ten feet apart each way. 



Sec. 2. Any person claiming the bounty under this act, shall make proof before 

 the county clerk that he has complied with section i of this act, and that the trees 

 planted by him are in a healthy and growing condition. 



Sec. 3. Upon proof of a compliance with this act the county clerk shall issue 

 his certificate to the person entitled to the same, setting forth that the provisicms of this 

 act have been complied with, and the number of acres so planted. 



Sec. 4. The Board of Supervisoss, or County Commissioners' Court, desiring to 

 offer the bounty herein provided for, shall do so by resolution, to be made of record, 

 and giving notice in some newspaper published in the county three weeks prior to the 

 first day of April of each year ; said resolution and notice to state the amount of bounty 

 offered for each acre planted and cultivated. 



An Act making an appropriation in aid of the IlHnois State 



Horticultural Society. 



Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assem- 

 bly, That there be appropriated for the use of the Illinois State Horticultural Society 

 the sum of two thousand dollars per annum, for the years 1877 and 1878, to be expended 

 by said Society for the purposes and in the manner specified in " An Act to re-organize 

 the Illinois .State Horticultural Society," approved March 24, 1874. 



