Proclamation!

ExECüTivE Office, ) April 7, 1887. ( The forest fame of oor peninsular state U hu vanlshiog before cha wood iikiii'.s iix. Onr niituial grove ol maple, oak, and pine are bein hiirriedly rimad over bill hikI down the valltys liy fieldt of sunshine and wa.ring (train. Tbe pioneer falheis yet. witli ui can teil Ol mole WOJHJerful cli.ini-s they have xeen loiiylit u the face Of our Ik: lutifnl State Ilian eau the idtfeil uenerations [n ciimi'. The lVitiK soil whicb Innged for Umi wanutli of RonaMiie wben Uiey carne, (o-dny rejoices n tliu oooling slindowa ut a ipared tree. We bnlhl onr loi tunes to decay, plant onr iltcds to live and grow; be who planta ¦ Ires y the waysiiie tiüiy not liiin-elf nst beneath fts simde, lint tliousands of weary travchis in , BtoptO biciilhe a blvoslngon II is (I eed. And t is uitli a thouirlit for the duys to come and tdr those whn ure to live after n-, t lint the lieaiitil'nl ciistom ol annnally )rocl:uiniiii; au Arb.ir D.iv ís checilully followed by your liuinble -ervant. I theretore respectfully nd eainestly ree 'inmc-nd ihat by the ecttae, the inaiisiun, the ehurch, tlie school house, the utreet, in the cemetery, or in (ach otlter ilaees as niay be Clionen, a tnJe inay be ilanteil on MONDAY, TUK XiTB I)ay OK Apuil, inst., by every .persou in our State with whom it is puanble. And that t mav be done with a uiore united puipose, I woulil gugjeese that each tre be dedicated to tlie miMiiory of Ome triend, whosc deerts of kindness or lierciisni you duld keep jrreeu. And it is with coutidfhcu rown fioin the past that I sinerety hope a people, uiiMirpaKSt-d la iütellience, uiiexcclled in public plt, loyal to Frlends and beneiactors, and Brood of the beet lieritagu in the faiüily ot' Statea, wil], u that d;iy. add living ornamenta tor the blehsiii" of posterity that only the -Kisniis can furnish lor eiijoytnelit. In Tkstimonv Whku'kok, 1 bava [L s I heretinto Mibacribed my naiiic and caused the Greit Beul of the State of Michigan to B iillixt-d at I,ansilir, tlie Tth d ij of April, in the year of our Lord Jiy the Govornor: