Sixth—The cost of caring for said trees after having been 
p:anted or set out, or for the replacing of such trees so set out, 
shall ke borne or paid for by the town or city, the money to be 
wovided by appropriation to be placed annually in the estimates, 
such appropriation not to exceed the sum of one-tenth of one per 
ceut of the total revenue raised by assessment on real estate and 
personal property. 
Without doubt the steadily growing interest in this plan of 
civic betterment, will cause all our States to adopt similar laws, 
and with the constantly increasing number of cities coming un- 
der the Commission or General Manager form of government, 
this matter of purely local interest in each community will be left 
where it belongs as to methods and means with the governing 
municipal authority determined by the expressed wish of the 
people. 
Mention has been made of consultation with other cities 
which have had several years of experience in handling this 
problem, before inaugurating the plan upon which the Commis- 
sion conducted its work. This has enabled the Commission to 
profit by the experience of other cities, and avoid some of the 
troubles which they encountered. 
The ordinances under which the Commission works, as they 
now stand, have been found to work satisfactorily, and are given 
in full for the benefit of not only our own citizens, but for the 
benefit of other cities making inquiry of Norfolk as to how and 
in what manner she has succeeded in doing the work that has 
become noticeable, even though but only fairly started. Re- 
quests from departments in other cities similar to our own, from 
public libraries gathering all available data for the use of their 
patrons have been received from Maine to California, and from 
Florida to Oregon, covering nineteen States, and going beyond 
our own boundaries to the Hawaiian Islands, to Alberta, Canada, 
to York, England, and Perth, Australia. 
The order of procedure followed secured first, an act of the 
State legislature embodying in the city charter provision for 
the organization of the Commission, Section 62 of the City 
Charter reading as follows: 
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