an,
or in public places, and for the maintenance, protection and care
of such trees and to provide a penalty for injury thereof, or for
stealing the products thereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact

Section 1. The State Highway Commissioner and the State Board of
Agriculture, acting jointly hereunder, shall have authority and it
shall be their duty to select and plant by seed, scions or
otherwise, ornamental, nut bearing, or other food producing trees,
(to be supplied by the Public Domain Commission, or the Michigan
Agricultural College, as may be recommended or approved by the
Division of Agriculture of said college,) suitable for shade trees,
along the State trunk line highways and all other highways of the
State of Michigan, upon which State reward has been paid or earned:

Provided, that in no case shall such trees be planted except by and
with the consent of the owner of the property adjoining such
highway. The State Highway Commissioner shall establish rules and
regulations for uniform planting or proper placing of all trees
under the provisions of this act, and all such trees shall belong
to the State, but the products thereof shall belong to the owners
of the adjacent land. Nothing herein contained shall authorize the
State Highway Commissioner, or the State Board of Agriculture to
cut down or interfere with shade trees now growing along any such
highway, without permission in writing from the owner of the
adjoining property. All expenses incurred in carrying out the
provisions of this section shall be paid out of any moneys in the
State highway fund that may be available therefor.

Section 2. Counties, townships, cities and villages may annually
appropriate money to be used in planting, pruning and protecting,
and whenever necessary in acquiring shade, nut bearing and
ornamental trees to be placed along and within the respective
limits of said municipalities. The expenditure of any such fund
shall be vested in the highway commissioner in the case of county
roads, and in the proper highway authorities of the city or village
as the case may be.

Section 3. The owner of any real estate in the State of Michigan
that borders upon a legal highway upon which State reward has not
been paid, shall have the right to plant