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state treasury not otherwise appropriated. This appropriation is made to 

 cover the years of 1885 and 1886, and shall be paid to said society in two 

 annual equal payments, viz.: in 1885 and 1880. 



Section 2. Tliis act shall take effect and be in force from and after its 

 passage and publication. 



Published April 10, 1885. 



LAW RELATING TO TREE BELTS. 



Revised Statutes, 1878. 



Section 1469. Every owner or possessor of five acres of land, or more, 

 who shall successfully grow by planting with forest trees, consisting of the 

 following kinds, or such species thereof as will grow to the height of fifty 

 feet or more, viz. : arbor vitae, ash, balsam, fir, basswood, beech, birch, but- 

 ternut, cedar, black, cherry, chestnut, coffee tree, cucumber tree, elm, hack- 

 berry, hemlock^ hickory, larch, locust, maple, oak, pine, spruce, tulip tree 

 and walnut tree belts in the manner and form prescribed in the next sec- 

 tion, shall be entitled to have the land on whieh such tree belts grow until 

 they shall reach the height of twelve feet, and after they have attained 

 that height to receive an annual bounty of two dollars per acre for each 

 acre so grown. 



Section 1470. Such tree belts shall be planted on the west or south sides 

 of each tract of land, to be of uniform width through their entire length, 

 contain not less than eight trees, at nearly equi-distance, on each square 

 rod of land, and be at least thirty feet wide for each five acre tract, sixty 

 feet wide for each ten acre tract, and one hundred feet wide for each 

 square forty acre tract, and upon all square tracts of land, upon two sides 

 thereof. All tree belts owned by the same land owner must be planted 

 not to exceed a fourth of a mile apart, and on the west and south sides of 

 every square forty acres, and shall not exceed oae-fifth of the entire tract 

 of land on which the same are planted; pi'ovided, that when the east and 

 north sides, or either, of any tract of land is bounded by a public highway, 

 a tree belt one rod wide may be planted next to said highway, although it, 

 with the others on the west and south sides, shall exceed one -fifth of the 

 whole tract; and tree belts may be planted on any other lines within each 

 forty square acres, by permission of the assessor. 



Section 1471. The assessor shall, upon the application of the owner 

 thereof, in each year, at the time of assessing the personal property in his 

 district, make a personal examination of all tree belts for which bounty or 

 exemption from taxation is claimed, and ascertain whether they have 

 been planted as required in the preceding section, and are thriftily grow- 

 ing, and if he shall be satisfied thereof he shall not assess the same for 

 taxation unless the trees therein shall have attained the height of twelve 

 feet, and in that case he shall deliver to the owner a certificate that he is 



