Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry, for the Years ...Harrisburg Publishing Company, State printer, 1908 - Forests and forestry |
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Page 28 - All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws; but the General Assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial not used or held for private or corporate profit, and institutions of purely public charity.
Page 25 - That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Page 146 - Section 8. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Section 9. This act shall take effect immediately; but...
Page 145 - ... paid for by a general tax to be levied annually in the manner that taxes for...
Page 28 - ... within the requirements of this act, be entitled to receive annually, during the period that the said trees are maintained in good condition upon the said land, a rebate equal to eighty per centum of all taxes, local and county, annually assessed and paid upon said...
Page 37 - ... or grating for the protection thereof, when necessary, and of the proper replacing of any pavement or sidewalk necessarily disturbed in the doing of such work, shall be borne by the owner of the real estate in front of which such trees are planted...
Page 144 - And such Shade-Tree Commission shall, twice in every year, report in full its transactions and expenditures for the municipal fiscal year then last ended, to the authority under and by which it was appointed: Provided, That an existing park commission, acting under this enactment, may embody its report in its regular report to the councils, as by law or ordinance provided.
Page 160 - There are some species which, although light foliaged and giving comparatively little shade, are yet shade, enduring — ie, can subsist, although not develop favorably, under shade ; the oaks are examples of this kind. Others, like the black cherry, bear a dense crown for the first twenty years, perhaps, seemingly indicating great shade endurance; but the fact that the species named soon clears itself of its branches and finally has a thin crown, indicates that it is light needing, though a good...
Page 36 - ... commissioners thereof; and in boroughs, by the chief burgess, and in cities by the mayor thereof: Provided, That in cities where a Commission exists for the care of public parks, the term and appointment of such Commission shall not be changed by this act, but shall be and remain as provided by the act of Assembly, and by the ordinance of councils creating such Commission for the care and maintenance of public parks. And...
Page 159 - Very favorable soil conditions increase the shade endurance of the latter, and climatic conditions also modify their position in the scale. All trees ultimately thrive best, ie, grow most vigorously, in the full enjoyment of light, but their energy then goes into branching. Crowded together, with the side light cut off, the lower lateral branches soon die and fall, while the main energy of growth is put into the shaft, and height growth is stimulated.