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trees, after being planted or set out, and the expense of publishing said 

 notices, shall be borne and paid by a general tax to be raised by said munici- 

 pality; said tax shall not exceed the sum of one-tenth of one mill on the dollar 

 annually on all the taxable property of esid municipality, and the needed amount 

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

 of srid municipality, and be assessed and raided as other taxes. 



Sec. 6. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect immediately. 

 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Under Chapter 169, Section 97 of the laws of 1899, this act was repealed 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 ect was amended in the years 1905 and 1906 so as to extend the jurisdic- 

 tion of the shade-tree comudseions over the public parks, and to give the commis- 

 sions the power to pass ordinances for the protection of shade-trees on the pub- 

 lic streets end 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 municipalities of this state," approved 

 March twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three. 



BE IT ENACTED bv_ the Senate and. General. Assembly o the. State f_ New Jersey: 



Section 1. In any municipality which now has or hereafter shall take ad- 

 vantage of the act to which this is a supplement the commission appointed 

 under the provisions thereof shall have exclusive control over the public perks 

 belonging to or under the control of such municipality, or any department in the 

 government thereof, with full porter and authority to improve, repair, manage, 

 maintain, and control the same. 



Sec 2. The said commission snail have full power and authority and is 

 hereby empoxvered to pass, enact, alter, amend, and repeal ordinances for the pro- 

 tection, regulation, and control of euch parks, end the trees, flowers, shrubs, 



