State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
| MARCUS H. HOLCOMB
GOVERNOR
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Section 863 of our general statutes reads as follows:
“The Governor shall annually, in the spring, designate by
official proclamation a day to be known as Arbor and Bird
Day, to be observed in the schools, and in such other way
as shall be indicated in such proclamation.”
|HIS is a recognition of the value of our
trees and song birds which should be
impressed upon the children of the
State.
In compliance with this statute I designate
Friday the second day of May, 1919, as
Arhur attà l'irī, Bau
and direct that on said day the teachers in our
schools read this proclamation to their scholars and
instruct them that the wanton destruction of song
birds and of their eggs is a crime, and that the
planting and cultivation of shade trees will mate-
rially add to the beauty of our State and will be
their patriotic contribution to the pleasure and
welfare of future generations.
Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this second
day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and nineteen,
and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and forty-third.
By His Excellency's Command: ~
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