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140 ANNUAL REPORT. 
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. 
That 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, except black locust, and successfully growing and 
cultivating the same for three years, and every person planting, pro- 
tecting and cultivating for three years, one half mile or more of for- 
est trees, along any public highway, said trees to be planted so as to 
stand not more than one rod apart at the end of three years, and 
when planted on each side of any highway, such trees shall not be 
planted within the four rod limit of such highway, shall be entitled 
to receive for ten years thereafter, an annual bounty of two dollars 
for each acre, and two dollars for each half mile so planted and cul- 
tivated, to be paid out of the state treasury ; but such bounty shall 
not be paid any longer than such grove or line of trees is maintained 
and kept in a growing condition. 
SECTION TWO. 
Any person wishing to secure the benefit of this act, shall 
within three years after planting such grove, or line of trees, 
and annually thereafter, file with the county auditor of the county in 
which the same is located, a correct plat of the land, describing the 
section, or fraction thereof, on which such grove, or line of trees, has 
been planted or cultivated, and shall make due proof of such plant- 
ing and cultivation, as well as of the title to the land, by the oath 
of the owner, and the affidavit of two householders residing in the 
vicinity, setting forth the facts in relation to the growth and cultiva- 
tion of the grove, or line of trees, for which such bounty is demand- © 
ed. The several county auditors shall annually, on or before the 
first day of August, forward to the state auditor a certified list of all 
the lands and tree planting reported and verified to them in compli- 
ance with this act, with the names and post office address of the re- 
spective owners thereof; Providing, this act shall not apply to any 
railroad company for planting of trees within two hundred feet of its 
track for the purpose of snow fence. 
