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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 firrt class, boroughs, and cities of the Commonwealth of 

 Pennsylvania, and providing for Hie cost thereof. 



Section 1. BE IT ENACTED, etc., That in townships of the first class, 

 boroughs,, and cities of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, there may be appointed, in 

 the manner hereinafter provided, a Commission of three freeholders, to be known and 

 designated as the Shade-Tree Commission of said township, borough, or city, who 

 shall serve without compensation, and who shall have exclusive and absolute custody 

 and control of, and po^er to plant, set out, remove, maintain, protect, and cere 

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

 and cities, the cost thereof to be provided for in the manner hereinafter stated: 

 Provided. That in to- nships, 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 commissioners, or by joint resolution in the 

 ceee of the councils, accept the provisions of this act; and when such majority 

 vote or joint resolution shall have been duly passed and approved, and such Shade- 

 Tree Commissioners appointed, or, in their stead, the duties and powers herein 

 provided have been devolved upon an existing pork commission, then, from that time 

 and in that event, this ect and all its provisions shall be in full force and 

 application in such township of the first class, borough, or city, so accepting; 

 and such commissioners shall be appointed, for terms of three, four and five years, 

 respectively, and, on the expiration of any term, the new appointment shall be for 



