new park or existing park, nor to exercise any of the 

 powers and duties of any board of finance or other body 

 having charge of the finances of any such city with respect 

 thereto, but that said powers and duties of any such board 

 of finance or board having charge of the finances of any 

 such city shall be and remain the same as if this act had 

 not been enacted. (P. L. 1910, p. 365.) 



Chapter 260, pp. 546 and 547, P. L. ign. 



A SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled "An 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 haying the management of the public parks 

 in any such city," approved March twenty-eighth, one 

 thousand nine hundred and four." 



Sec. 1. In any city wherein the board of aldermen or 

 other governing body thereof has ordained or may here- 

 after ordain, pursuant to the provisions of the act to which 



this is a supplement, that the shade and 



Park Commis- ornamental trees in the public highways of 



Sol ^ver^shade such cit y sha11 be Panted, regulated' and 



trees. cared for by the board or authorities having 



the management of the public parks in such 

 city, such board or park authorities shall have absolute 

 power and control over the shade and ornamental trees 

 now standing or hereafter planted in the highways of such 

 city, and such board or park authorities shall have full 

 power and authority and are empowered to pass, enact, en- 

 force, alter, amend and repeal ordinances for the planting, 

 trimming and removal of such trees and for the protection, 

 regulation, care and control of the same. The method- now 

 or hereafter prescribed by law for the passing, enacting, 

 altering, amending, repealing and publishing of ordinances 

 by the governing body in such city shall be the method 

 used to pass, enact, enforce, alter, amend, repeal and pub- 

 lish the ordinances herein mentioned. 



Sec. 2. The said board or park authorities may prescribe 



penalties, not exceeding fifty dollars, for 



the violation of any ordinance which they 

 are empowered to enact, and the courts which now or here- 

 after shall have jurisdiction over actions for the violation 



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