264 SHADE-TREES IN TOWNS AND CITIES 



may, in the resolution adopting said act, provide that the 

 said park commission shall also act as a shade-tree commis- 

 sion ; and the act to which this is a supplement, and the 

 amendments thereof and supplements thereto, shall take 

 effect in said city or town, except that no independent 

 shade-tree commission shall be appointed." 



PENNSYLVANIA 

 LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA 



Session of 1907 



An act to provide for the planting and care of shade-trees, on 

 highways of townships of the first class, boroughs, and cities of 

 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and providing for the cost 

 thereof. 



Section 1. Be it Enacted, etc., That in townships of the 

 first class, boroughs, and cities of Commonwealth of Pennsyl- 

 vania there may be appointed, in the manner hereinafter pro- 

 vided, a Commission of three freeholders, to be known and 

 designated as the Shade-Tree Commission of said township, bor- 

 ough, or city, who shall serve without compensation, and who 

 shall have exclusive and absolute custody and control of, and 

 power to plant, set out, remove, maintain, protect, and care 

 for shade-trees, on any of the public highways of the said town- 

 ships, boroughs, and cities, the cost thereof to be provided for in 

 the manner hereinafter stated: Provided, That in townships, 

 boroughs, or cities in which a Commission for the care of public 

 parks shall have been created, said Commission shall, upon the 

 acceptance of this act as provided in section two, be charged 

 with the duties of the Commission as above provided, and shall, 

 for that purpose, be possessed of all the powers herein mentioned 

 and granted. 



Sec. 2. The commissioners of any township of the first 

 class, or the council of any borough or city, in case of the com- 

 missioners, or by joint resolution in the case of the councils, 



