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other fixture to any tree, tree-guard or support thereof on 
any highway in the City. 
5. No person shall fasten or maintain any placard, sign, 
advertisement or other notice on any tree, tree-guard or 
support thereof on any highway in the City. 
6. No person shall deface, injure or remove any copy 
of the Regulations for the Protection of Street Trees or 
other notice posted on any highway or other public place 
in the City by authority of the Commissioners of Fair- 
mount Park. 
7. No pavement of any kind shall be laid within a 
space of three feet by four feet around any street tree, 
and no stone, gravel, qement, lumber or other material 
shall be deposited upon such unpaved area. Such unpaved 
space must be maintained permanently and continuously 
about the base of the trunk of each street tree. 
8. Every person or corporation violating any of the 
foregoing regulations shall pay a fine or penalty of five 
dollars 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 pro- 
vided by law. 
These regulations, having been approved by the Select 
-and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia and 
duly published, have now the force of law. 
Summary of Directions for the Care and Observation 
of Trees. For the convenience of private owners of trees, 
who desire to take intelligent interest in their condition 
and welfare, we subjoin some suggestions as to the direc- 
tions which their care and observation should take. They 
