to receive such bounty, he shall give the treasurer written notice thereof, and thereafter no further bounty shall be allowed until such owner shall again receive a certificate therefor.

Sec. 1038. The property in this section described is exempt from taxation, to-wit:

18. Such tree belts as are or may be planted and maintained in compliance with Chapter 61 of these Statutes. (Viz., the acts printed above.)

WYOMING.

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tion.

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REVISED STATUTES.--Sec. 2645. It shall be lawful for the board of county commissioners in any county in this state to offer a bounty to any person in said county who shall hereafter plant one or more acres of land with forest trees and properly cultivate the same for five years in any sum not to exceed ten dollars for five years for each acre so planted and cultivated; provided, that trees so planted shall not be at a greater distance than ten feet apart each way and shall be kept in a live, thrifty condition for at least Kept thrifty for five years. five years after being planted before said bounty shall be due and payable; and provided, further, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to any lands held as timber culture entries under any of the timber laws of the United States.

Sec. 2646. The board of county commissioners desiring to offer the bounty herein provided for, shall do so by resolution to be made of record and giving notice in some newspaper published in the county three weeks prior to the first day of April of each year, said resolution and notice to state the amount of bounty offered for each acre planted and cultivated.

Sec. 2647. Any person claiming the bounty under this chapter shall make proof before the county commissioners that he has complied with the provisions of section 2645, and that the trees planted by him are in a healthy and growing condition.

Sec. 2648. Upon satisfactory proof of the compliance with this chapter, the board of county commissioners may issue to the person entitled thereto a warrant upon the county treasurer as in other cases, for the amount due under the offer made by the board.

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Warrant.

CHAPTER VI.

STATUTES RELATING TO INVESTIGATION,
EDUCATION, AND PUBLIC OBSERVANCE.

ALABAMA.

CODE OF ALABAMA.-Sec. 2242. It shall be the duty of the state State geologist to investigeologist to devote such portion of his time as may not be required gate forests. for the discharge of his duties as a professor in the University of Alabama, to exploration and examination of the mineral, agricultural and other natural resources of the state, so as to determine accurately * * its forest trees and their utilities and distribution ** * *

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NOTE. A tabulated list showing the states which observe Arbor day may be found on page 251 of this bulletin.

ARIZONA.

REVISED STATUTES.-Sec. 310, provides for Arbor day to be a holiday on Friday after April 1, for Apache, Navajo, Coconino, Mohave and Yavapai counties; on Friday after February 1, for all other counties. Sec. 311, that governor shall proclaim above section and recommend that Arbor day be observed by tree and shrub planting. Sec. 312, that school children shall be assembled on Arbor day to conduct exercises and plant trees; the county superintendents to have general supervision and the teachers direct charge. Sec. 313, that each county school superintendent shall prescribe a course of instruction of forest subjects.

NOTE.-Arbor day is further made a legal holiday by sec. 2709 of the Revised Statutes.

ARKANSAS.

NOTE. See table on page 251 of this bulletin.

CALIFORNIA.

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of Forestry law

LAWS OF 1893, CHAP. 187.-Sec. 1. An act entitled "An act State Board to create a State Board of Forestry, and to provide for the repealed. expenses thereof," approved March 3, 1885, and the act amendatory thereof, approved March 7, 1887, is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. All the real and personal property of said board, on or before the first day of July, 1893, shall be assigned, made over and transferred to the Agricultural Department of the University of California.

Transfer of property.

Sec. 3. There is hereby appropriated the sum of four thousand Appropriation for forest dollars out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise experiment staappropriated, payable to the Agricultural Department of the tions.

University of California, for the support, maintenance and preservation of the experimental stations of the State Board of Forestry, and the controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant for the same.

NOTE 1.--Various other appropriations have from time to time been made for the support of the " Forestry Stations" at Chico and at Santa Monica. The act of March 7, 1889, made while the Board of Forestry was still in charge, has the following proviso:

"Provided, no further expenditures shall be made on any station, the fee of which is not unconditionally vested in this state, and that no other station be selected or used for any purpose connected with this act, except upon lands unconditionally donated for that purpose."

NOTE 2.-For the law providing for a state survey in cooperation with the government of the United States see chap. II of this bulletin, page 31.

NOTE 3.-See table on page 251 of this bulletin.

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COLORADO.

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NOTE 1.-By Sections 62 and 63, Mills' Annotated Statutes, it is made the duty of the secretary of the Board of Agriculture, among other things, to collect information " culture of trees adapted to the soil and climate of this state": and he is to "purchase, receive and distribute such rare and valuable trees ** * * as it may be in his power to procure from the general government and such other sources as may be adapted to our climate and soils "; and place "such trees * * * in the hands of those farmers and others who will agree to cultivate them properly and return to the secretary's office a reasonable proportion of the products thereof, with a full statement of the mode of cultivation and such other information as may be necessary to ascertain their value for cultivation in the state."

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NOTE 2.-Mills' Annotated Statutes, sec. 2129, provides that Arbor day shall be the third Friday in April of each year, to be observed by tree planting, but that the actual planting may be done at such other more appropriate time as the several county superintendents may fix. Sec. 2130, that schools shall have appropriate Arbor day exercises. Sec. 2131, that the governor shall annually issue an Arbor Day proclamation calling attention to the purpose of the day.

CONNECTICUT.

NOTE 1.-Laws of 1903, chap. 133, sec. 2, provides that the Geographical and Natural History Survey shall investigate the economic and educational value of the forest resources of the state.

NOTE 2.-Revised Statutes, sec. 4438, provides that the governor shall annually by proclamation in the spring provide for Arbor day and its observance.

DELAWARE.

NOTE. See table on page 251 of this bulletin.

FLORIDA.

LAWS OF 1893, PAGE 168, (CHAP. 4234).--Sec. 1. There shall be established at some suitable point in Florida, possessing climate conditions for growing all kinds of plant life including

cinchona, log wood, and camphor, olive and India rubber trees, also vanilla, tea, coffee, jute, New Zealand flax, etc., on muck lands over which the trustees of the internal improvement fund have exclusive control under the act of Congress, September 28, 1850, an experimental station, to be operated by, or under the supervision of the commissioner of agriculture, and under such rules and regulations and conditions as may be prescribed by the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of Florida.

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Sec. 2. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Sec. 1 Lands apart for exof this act and to create a fund for the establishment and main- periment tion. tenance of said agricultural station, and for the further drainage and reclamation of the lands set apart for that purpose, the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida are hereby authorized and directed to set apart one hundred thousand acres of the land granted the state of Florida by the act of Congress of September 28, 1850, to be sold at such prices as may be fixed by the trustees, and the proceeds thereof port of experito be expended by the said trustees of the Internal Improvement ment station. Fund in carrying out the provisions of Sec. 1 of this act.

Proceeds of

sales for sup

NOTE 1.-According to Sec. 142 of the Revised Statutes, the Wood speci commissioner of agriculture, among other duties, is required mens. to "collect specimens of wood suitable for manufacturing and other purposes."

NOTE 2.-See table on page 251 of this bulletin.

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GEORGIA.

CODE OF GEORGIA.-Sec. 1395, provides that the first Friday in December shall be Arbor day. Sec. 1396, that the state school commissioner through the county school commissioners shall cause the schools to properly observe Arbor day.

IDAHO.

LAWS OF 1903, No. 87.-Sec. 1, provides that each county school superintendent shall fix a day in April for Arbor day. Sec. 2, that under the supervision of superintendents all schools shall hold appropriate exercises on Arbor day. Sec. 3, that the state superintendent shall fix a course of exercises and instructions to be observed on Arbor day.

ILLINOIS.

REVISED STATUTES, CHAP. V.-Sec. 42, provides that the governor shall annually, in the spring, designate an Arbor day, to be observed throughout the state in tree and shrub planting.

INDIANA.

ACTS OF 1903, CHAP. 106.-The governor shall annually in the spring designate by official proclamation a day to be designated as "Arbor Day" to be observed throughout the state as a day for planting trees, shrubs and vines about the homes and along high

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