LAWS 
RELATING TO THE PLANTING AND PKESERVATION OP 
FRUIT AND FOREST TREES. 
Chapter 165— R. 8. 
Section 49. Every person who shall wilfully and maliciously, or wantonly 
and without cause, cut down and destroy, or by girdling, lopping, or other¬ 
wise, shall injure, any fruit tree or any other trees, not his own, standing or 
growing for shade, ornament, or other useful purposes, or shall maliciously or 
wantonly break the glass or any other part of it in any building not his own, 
or shall maliciously break down any fence belonging to or enclosing land not 
his own, or shall maliciously throw down or open any bars, gate, or fence, 
and leave the same down or open, or shall maliciously or injuriously sever 
from the freehold of another any produce thereof or anything attached 
thereto, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail, not more 
than one year nor less than three months, or by fine, not exceeding two 
hundred dollars. 
Section 61. Every person who shall wilfully commit any trespass by en¬ 
tering upon the garden, orchard, or other improved land of another, without 
permission of the owner thereof, and with intent to cut, take, carry away, 
destroy, or injure the trees, grain, grass, hay, fruit, or vegetables there grow¬ 
ing or being, shall be pushed by fine, not exceeding fifteen dollars nor less 
than three dollars. 
Section 62. Every justice of the peace shall have concurrent jurisdiction 
in his own county with the circuit court, of all the offenses mentioned in the 
three preceding sections of this chapter, when the value of the trees, fruit, 
grain, or other property injured, destroyed, taken, or carried away, or the 
injury occasioned by the trespass, shall not be alleged to exceed the sum of 
one hundred dollars ; and in any such case the punishment shall be by fine, 
not exceeding fifty dollars nor less than five dollars. 
Section 63. Any person who shall willfully cut down or destroy, or by 
girdling or otherwise shall injure, any tree growing or standing upon any 
lands set apart for university and school purposes, or either, and belonging 
to this state, or upon any other lands belonging to this state, or upon any 
other lauds belonging to this state, or who shall wilfully cut or take, carry or 
haul away, from any such lands, any timber or wood previously cut or sever- 
