the same manner as is or may be provided

19 by law for the payment of the cost of maintaining trunk line or
Federal aided roads.

1 Sec. 2. Counties, townships, cities and villages of the State are

2 hereby authorized to appropriate money for the purpose of
planting,

3 caring for and protecting useful, memorial, ornamental, nut
bearing and other

4 food producing trees, shrubs and plants along and within streets,
highways, thoroughfares and other public places

5 other than trunk line or Federal aided

6 roads, within the respective limits of such municipalities and

7 subject to the jurisdiction thereof. The expenditure of any such
fund

8 raised hereunder in a township shall be vested in the

9 (highway commissioner) of the township subject to the approval of
the township board.

10 Any such fund raised by a county shall be expended by and under
the

11 direction of the (board of county road commissioners;) and

12 any such fund raised in a city or village shall be expended by
the highway or other proper municipal board or authority

13 thereof, in accordance with its charter laws or ordinances or
under the direction of the common council

14 or legislative body of such city or village. All such

15 appropriations made under this section by any municipality shall

16 be made in the same manner as is or may be provided by law for

17 the raising of money for highway or park maintenance purposes.

Sec. 3. Trees may be planted along the highways or other public
places by proper authorities and designated as memorial trees for
the purpose of commemorating important military or civic events, or
in memory of any person distinguished for noteworthy acts, or for
conspicuous service in behalf of the nation, the State of Michigan
or any local community thereof. Suitable tablets, boulders or other
markers of a permanent character may be contributed by any person,
or by any civic or military association and placed in conjunction
with such memorial trees subject to the approval and consent of the
proper authorities in control or in direct charge of such highways
or public places. that

1 Sec. 4. The owner of any real estate in the state of (Michigan)
that

2 borders upon a public highway other th