XEW ,1 ERSE Y STATE MUSEUM. 
26 REPOET OE 
, ,, f f1nv be devoted by the people to the 
day. His excellency recommends, that the j ^ be held iu the school, 
planting of forest trees and that appiopua 
of the State. , 0 f Bird day in conjunction with 
Though legislation authorizing the obse q|: qui . | jeg islat®, I believe 
Arbor day was not secured at the lece observa nce and that it is highly 
that public sentiment will heartily mdoise jn our “feathered friends" 
important that a more kind ancpapprecia n j wou ld, therefore, respect 
should be cultivated among the you 1 ‘ be devoted to the birds, 
fully request that a portion of the exercises of Aiborday 
proclamation by the GOVEBNOB. 
In accordance with the annual custom ^T^of B authority vested in 
or live planting of forest trees, an 1 1 . M thousand 
ne by law. I do hereby set apart Monday, the svxth day ot ^ that 
line hundred and one, for the planting of forest Gees, and 
he day be devoted by the people for that pui ■ Great 
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me thousand mile hundred and one. TrOSTEB M. YOOBHEES, 
By the Governor: 
George Wurts, 
Secretary of Stale. 
PBOCLAMATION. 
State of New .Tehsev. 
Executive 1 'epautment. 
In nearlv every State and Territory of the Union either custom or law has 
decreed that one day of the year shall be set apart # J^w £ * ' 
Therefore I. Franklin Murphy, Governor of the State ot M i -'“A 
suant to the authority vested in me by a joint resolution of he Lriri^tme. 
annroved February twenty-first, one thousand eight bundled and eighty - • 
do hereby designate Friday, the twenty-fifth day of April, as Arbor day an, 
I hereby recommend that the teachers and pupils of our puW.e and P 
schools the faculties and students of our colleges and of out Mat. school. 
and the people generally, do devote the day to the The 
flowers and the holding of appropriate exercises. And to the end that t . 
interest awakened in our native birds be maintained, their beauty and economic 
value become better appreciated and a more general effort be made o Preserve 
them. I further recommend that the birds as well as the trees be included 
1U In'testimony whereof. I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great 
Seal of the State to be affixed, at Trenton, this first day of April. 
[SEAL.] one thousand nine hundred and two. ^ MUBI'IIY. 
. (governor. 
By the Governor: 
S. D. Dickinson, 
Secretarii of State. 
