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sum of one-tenth of one mill on the dollar annually on all the 

 taxable property of said municipality, and the needed amount 

 shall be each year certified by said commissioners to the assessor, 

 and assessors of said municipality, and be assessed and raised as 

 other taxes. 



Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect im- 

 mediately. 



Approved March 28, 1893. 



Under Chapter 169, Section 97 of the laws of 1899, this act 

 was repealed in so far as it related to or affected townships. 



This act was amended in the years 1905 and 1906 so as to 

 extend the jurisdiction of the shade-tree commissions over 

 the public parks, and to give the commissions the power 

 to pass ordinances for the protection of shade-trees on the 

 public streets and in the public parks. 



LAWS OF NEW JERSEY OF 1905. 



Chapter 108. 



A supplement to an act entitled, "An act to provide for the 

 planting and care of shade-trees on the highways of the munici- 

 palities of this state," approved March twenty-eighth, one thou- 

 sand eight hundred and ninety-three. 



Be it Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State 

 of New Jersey : 



Section 1. In any municipality which now has or hereafter 

 shall take advantage of the act to which this is a supplement the 

 commission appointed under the provisions thereof shall have 

 exclusive control over the public parks belonging to or under the 

 control of such municipality, or any department in the govern- 

 ment thereof, with full power and authority to improve, repair, 

 manage, maintain, and control the same. 



Sec. 2. The said commission shall have full power and 

 authority and is hereby empowered to pass, enact, alter, amend, 



