e fund. So that is the theory upon which they
are working under this bill.

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A BILL to provide for and regulate the planting of useful,
memorial, ornamental, nut bearing and other food producing trees,
shrubs, and plants along the streets, highways and other public
thoroughfares and places within the State of (Michigan); and for
the maintenance, protection and care of such trees and shrubs as a
part of the maintenance of the roads in certain cases; and to
provide a penalty for injury thereof, or for stealing the products
thereof,--

_The People of the State of (Michigan) enact:_

1 Section 1. The (State Highway Commissioner) is hereby authorized
and empowered

2 and it shall be his duty to select and plant by seeds,

3 scions or otherwise, useful, ornamental, nut bearing and other
food producing trees, shrubs and plants

4 suitable for shade, maintenance and protection of the highways

5 along State trunk line and Federal aided roads and for the use
and benefit of the public, and to care for and maintain all such
trees, shrubs or plants.

6 The care of such trees shall be deemed a part of the road
maintenance work.

7 The varieties or species

8 so planted shall be subject to the approval of the

9 (State Department of Agriculture) and may be supplied

10 by the (State Agricultural College) or other State Institution
or Department, or elsewhere acquired by the

11 (State Highway Commissioner). The (State Highway Commissioner)

12 shall make and publish rules and regulations for the

13 planting and proper placing of trees, shrubs or plants and for
their proper

14 pruning, care and protection under the provisions of this act,
and all

15 such planting shall belong to the State, but the owner of

16 the adjacent land shall have the right to take and use the
products thereof.

17 All expenses incurred in planting or caring for such trees and
shrubs along

18 trunk line and Federal aided roads of the State shall be paid in