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or other substances discharged from trees thus cut, was to be deemed 

 priiuafacie evidence of having cut the same. The penalty for thus cut- 

 ting trees was limited to a $500 fine or lioO days' imprisonment. This 

 act did not apply to timber cut for manufacturing into lumber, or for 

 firewood, tanning, or agricultural or mining purposes, but in these cases 

 the cutting was to be done economically, and not in anticipation of fu- 

 ture needs beyond that for immediate use. 



AN ACT to encourage the planting and cultivation of shade and fruit trees upon the public roada and 

 highways of this Stale.— Approved March 30, 1868. 



Section 1. The Board of Supervisors of any county of this State may by an order of 

 such Board, to be passed at a regular meeting of such Board, and to be entered in the 

 miniates thereof, authorize the planting and cultivation of shade and fruit trees, by 

 persons owning lauds in such county upon the public roads and highways adjacent to 

 such lands. 



Sec. 2. The Board of Supervisors may, by order entered upon their minutes, designate 

 the roads or highways upon which such trees may be planted, so describing such road 

 by reference to planes and boundaries, that the same may be readily ascertained. 

 They shall also, in such order, direct the species of trees to be so planted, their age 

 when planted, their distance from each other, and their position with regard to the 

 traveled road; and also all such other rules and regulations as they shall deem 

 proper to secure the proper planting, growth, and protection of such trees, and also to 

 prevent their obstructing the travel upon such road. 



Sec. 3. Whenever any person shall plant upon any public road, in front of land owned 

 by him, shade or fruit trees, in accordance with the provisions of this act, and also of such 

 rules as the Board of Supervisors may prescribe hereunder, such person so planting 

 such trees shall file with the Board of Supervisors of such county a written statement, 

 setting forth therein the road or places up n which such trees are planted, the number 

 and species of trees thus planted, and the time of planting. 



Sec. 4. Four years from and after the date of planting such trees, and giving the notice 

 as provided in section third, the person planting such trees, or his legal representative 

 may present to the Board of Suxjervisors of such county, his statement in writing, 

 verified by the oath of such applicant, setting forth therein the number and species of 

 trees originally planted ; when, and by whom planted, or caused to be planted, and the 

 number then living and in a thrifty condition, and for any willful misstatement con- 

 tained in such report, the party making the same may be prostcuted for the crime of 

 perjury. 



Sec. 5. Upon filing such verified statement, the Board of Supervisors of such county 

 shall allow to the parry making the same the sum of $1 for each and every tree so 

 planted and growing thriftily, the same to be audited and paid out of the general fund 

 of such county as other claims are allowed, audited, and paid. 



Sec. 6. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to apply to any trees planted 

 before the passage of this act, or unless planted and cultivated as required by the 

 orders of the Board of Supervisors. 



Sec. 7. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. 



Mr. I. N. Hoag, the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, in 

 transmitting this act to the several Boards of Supervisors, enumerated 

 the following kinds of trees as hardy, of rapid growth, and suitable for 

 planting, viz : 



Black and honey locusts, black, white, and fruiting mulberry, Osage 

 orange, native and eastern black walnut, American chestnut; European, 

 American, and cork-bark elm ; maples, tulip-tree; Carolina, Lombardy, 

 and silver-leaf poplar ; ash of diflerent kinds ; apple, pear, plum, cherry, 

 almond, and fig ; Eucalyptus, or Australian blue and red gum ; Monterey 

 pine, sugar pine, yellow pine, spruce pine; Norway spruce; balsam 

 fir, Scotch pine, European larch, Monterey cypress, Italian cypress, 

 California redwood, and California laurel. 



By an act of the California legislature, approved February 13, 1872, 

 a penalty of not more than $1,000 or a term of imprisonment not more 

 than one year, might be imposed for willfully setting fire to any wooded 

 country or forest belonging to the State or the United States, or to any 

 place where fire would communicate with such forests. The careless 



