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where roads run through or adjoin cultivated fields, iu abatement 

 of road tax, |1 for every four trees set out; rows of elms to be sev- 

 enty or more feet apart; rows of maple or other forest trees, except 

 locust, to be fifty or more feet apart, and rows of locust to be 

 thirty or more feet apart. Trees to be set out the year bef(»re de- 

 mand for abatement is made, and to be living and well and protected 



from animals at time demand for abatement is made. 

 Act May 2, 1879, section 1, (P. L., page 47). 



6. Credit to be allowed for trees transplanted in place of ones 

 dying. 



Act May 2, 1879, section 2, (P. L., page 47). 



7. No abatement to be allowed in excess of one-fourth of highway 

 tax. 



Act May 2, 1879, section 3, (P. L., page 47). 



8. Persons cutting down, killing or injuring such trees, liable to a 

 penalty of fifty cents for every tree cut dowu, killed or injured, to 

 be collected as road taxes are collected and paid to supervisors. 



Act May 2, 1879, section 4, (P. L., page 47). 



9. Owners of tracts of uncleared land containing not less than fifty 



trees to the acre, and each tree measuring eight or more inches in 



diameter at a height of six feet above the surface, to receive from 



county commissioners, during the time the trees are maintained in 



sound condition, a sum equal to eighty per cent, of taxes annually 



assessed and paid on said land; but the amount paid is not to exceed 



forty-five cents per acre, and no one owner to receive payment on 



more than fifty acres. 



Act May 25, 1897, (P. L., page 88). 



10. Rebate of one-fourth of highway tax to be allowed to persons 



owning and using on public highways draft wagons, with tires not 



less than four inches wide, for hauling loa,ds of not less than two 



thousand pounds weight; said rebate not to exceed five days' labor 



on highways or its equivalent in cash to any one person. 

 Act June 25, 1895, section 1, (P. L., page 288). 



11. Persons complying with act to make proof before supervisor, 

 on oath. 



Act June 25, 1895, section 2, (P. L., page 288). 



12. Supervisors and road commissioners to contract annually en 

 first Monday of April for removal of loose stones by tax-payers from 

 main highways during April, May, June, July, August, September 

 and October. 



Act May 2, 1899, section 1, (P. L., page 164). 



