Section 15i - Liberty Tree Day

MA Gen L ch 6 § 15i (2019) (N/A)
Copy with citation
Copy as parenthetical citation

Section 15I. The governor shall annually issue a proclamation setting apart August fourteenth as Liberty Tree day commemorating the first public shade tree planting in the new world in the year sixteen hundred and forty-six, one of the trees so planted being known from the year seventeen hundred and sixty-five until its removal by British soldiers ten years later as the Liberty Tree, a Symbol of Freedom.