{"data":{"id":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-6-15i","jurisdiction":"us-ma","citation":"Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 6, § 15I","heading":"Liberty Tree Day","body":"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.","path":["Part I","Title II","Chapter 6"],"source_url":"https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleII/Chapter6/Section15I","current_through":"amendments passed before May 31, 2026","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T05:12:42Z","sha256":"64ad773b07a338b9212eca167c6e1e59f70c2a78d88444b1b4d42c4005d8fe57","source_id":"us-ma","stale":false,"prev":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-6-15h","next":"us-ma/mass.-gen.-laws-ch.-6-15j"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}