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PRESS OF

THE BUFFALO COMMERCIAL,

BUFFALO, N. Y.

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To the Honorable the Common Council:

GENTLEMEN,-The Park Commissioners herewith submit their annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908:

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Of this balance $41,930.14 has been brought forward to the Niagara Square account. The work of improvement in the Square will probably be completed by the 1st of September.

Very full reports of work done in the parks and parkways, etc., during the past fiscal year, with statements of work contemplated during the coming year, are here presented.

As will be seen a new feature has been added to the Park System, the care of all trees in the streets and public places of the City having been assigned to the Park Department under the following Act of the Legislature:

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CHAPTER 52.

AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An Act to revise the Charter of the City of Buffalo," in relation to trees.

Accepted by the city.

Became a law, March 23, 1908, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and five of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to revise the Charter of the City of Buffalo,'' is hereby amended by inserting therein four new sections, to be sections three hundred and twenty-three-a, three hundred and twenty-three-b, three hundred and twenty-three-c and three hundred and twenty-three-d thereof, to read, respectively, as follows:

Section 323-a. The Board of Park Commissioners shall have full power and authority over all trees planted and to be planted in any of the streets or public places of the city, including the right to plant new trees and to care for the same, and to remove trees, living or dead, and to trim, spray and otherwise care for all such trees.

Section 323-b. The Board of Park Commissioners is authorized to appoint a city forester and such other employes and assistants as may be necessary, and to prescribe and define their respective duties and to fix the amount of their compensation. Such forester shall be an expert, trained in the care and culture of trees.

Section 323-c. The Board of Park Commissioners shall recommend to the Common Council from time to time, ordinances to be enacted by the said Common Council for the planting, care and protection of trees in the streets and public places of the city; but no such ordinance not recommended by said board shall be enacted by the Common Council. Nor shall any ordinance enacted pursuant hereto be altered or repealed without the recommendation of said board.

Section 323-d. The Common Council shall every year grant to the Board of Park Commissioners such sum of money as it shall require and as to the said Common Council shall appear reasonable and just, for planting, maintaining and caring for the trees of the city, for purchasing or raising new trees, and for other expenses contemplated by sections three hundred and twenty-three-a to three hundred and twenty-three-d of this title.

Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

STATE OF NEW YORK,

Office of the Secretary of State, ss.

I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and the whole of said original law.

Given under my hand and the seal of office of the Secretary of State, at the City of Albany, this twenty-fifth day of March, in the year one thousand nine hundred and eight.

JAMES L. WHALEN,

Deputy Secretary of State.

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