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installations, plumbing connections, gas connections, side- 
walk laying and all building procedures. 
Failure, in any of these cases, to comply with the above 
rules will subject the offender to the penalties provided 
by law, to wit: 
"Every person or corporation violating any of the fore- 
going regulations shall pay a fine or penalty of five dol- 
lars for each and every offense, to be recovered before any 
magistrate of the City of Philadelphia as debts of that 
amount are recoverable, and said fine or penalty, if not 
paid to said magistrate, shall become a lien on the real 
property of the offender and be collectible as provided by 
law." 
It is obviously a very easy, simple and inexpensive mat- 
ter to safeguard a tree during the operations above men- 
tioned. The placing of an adequate wooden tree-guard 
about it (see opposite page) and the avoidance of putting 
construction material against it, or either in or on the 
open space at its base, will amply meet the indications. 
As the trees on city streets are a valuable asset of 
both the city and its individual citizens, and, as it is not 
permitted to damage either municipal or private property 
during any of the operations enumerated, it is obvious that 
the same laws and city ordinances that are prohibitory 
in the one case are equally so in the other. It is hoped 
and believed that they will be duly observed. 
lEPHOR 
