Sec. 345. A copy of any ordinance or ordinances of s:ii< 

 commission, certified to under the hand of . 



the clerk, secretary or president of the said n&nc l t 

 commission, shall "be taken in any court of 

 this State as full and legal .proof of the existence of such 

 ordinance or ordinances, and that all requirements of law 

 in relation to the ordaining, publishing and making of the 

 same so as to make it legal and binding have been com- 

 plied with unless the contrary be shown. (P. L. 1906, 



Sec. 346. In any city or town in this state in which a 

 park commission now exists, the governing 

 body invested with the power of adopting sio * ar * a C a ^ t mi ^ 

 the act to which this is a supplement, may, Shade'Tree Com- 

 in the resolution adopting said act, provide mission. 

 :hat the said park commission also act as 

 a shade tree commission, in which event the park commis- 

 sion shall also act as a shade tree commission ; 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. (P. L. 1908, p. 401. as amended P. L. 

 1910, p. 2/7.) 



j Co nip. Stat., pp. 4189 and 4190, Sees. 120 to 123. 

 (See, also, p. /&.) 



Ax ACT to provide for the planting and care of shade and 

 ornamental trees in the public highways of any city of 

 this state by the authorities having the management 

 of the public parks in any such city. 



Sec. 120. It shall be lawful for the board of aldermen, 

 or other governing body of any city of this 

 state, to ordain that the shade and orna- cit ^g de trees in 

 mental trees in the public highways of such 

 city shall be planted, regulated and cared for by the author- 

 ities having the management of the public parks in any 

 such city. (P. L. 1904, p. 274.) 



Sec. 121. "When the authorities having the management 

 of the public parks in any city of this state 

 are empowered, as hereinbefore provided, Care and plant- 

 to plant, regulate and care for the shade in of trees. 

 trees in the public highways, it shall there- 



