MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 137 
AN ACT 
TO ENCOURAGE THE PLANTING AND GROWING OF TIMBER AND 
SHADE TREES. 
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : 
SECTION ONE. 
Every person planting one acre or more of prairie land within five 
years after the passage of this act with any kind of forest trees, ex- 
cept black locust, and successfully growing and cultivating the same 
for three years, and every person planting, protecting and cultivat- 
ing for three years, one half mile or more of forest trees along any 
public highway, said trees to be planted so as to stand at the end of 
three years, not more than one rod apart, shall be entitled to receive 
for ten years, commencing three years after said grove or line of 
trees has been planted, an annual bounty of two dollars per acre for 
each acre so planted, and two dollars for each one-half mile so 
planted, to be paid out of the county treasury of the county in which 
said grove or line of trees may be situated ; such bounty shall not be 
paid any longer than said grove or line of trees is cultivated and 
kept alive, and in a growing condition. 
SECTION TWO. 
Any person wishing to avail himself of the provisions of section 
one of this act, shall within three years after planting said grove, or 
line of trees, file with the county auditor of the county a correct plat 
of said grove or line of trees, showing on what section or other 
piece of land said grove or line of trees is situated, attested by his 
own oath, and the affidavit of at least two householders of the vicin- 
ity, setting forth all the facts in relation to the growth and cultiva- 
tion of said grove or line of trees. The county auditor shall lay 
such plat and affidavit before the county commissioners, and if they 
find from the evidence, that section one of this act has been fully 
complied with, shall cause warrants to be issued from the county 
treasury of the proper county for the bounty above provided for. 
SECTION THREE. 
The affidavit of the claimant, and of at least two householders of 
the vicinity, showing the growth and condition of such trees, shall be 
filed each year in the office of the county auditor before the county 
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