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8. Applications for permits shall be referred to the Smithsonian 
Institution for recommendation. 
9. Every permit shall be in writing and copies shall be trans- 
mitted to the Smithsonian Institution and the field officer in charge 
of the land involved. The permittee will be furnished with a copy 
of these rules and regulations. 
10. At the close of each season’s field work the permittee shall re- 
port in duplicate to the Smithsonian Institution, in such form as its 
Secretary may prescribe, and shall prepare in duplicate a catalogue of 
the collections and of the photographs made during the season, 
indicating therein such material, if any, as may be available for 
exchange. 
11. Institutions and persons receiving permits for excavation shall, 
after the completion of the work, restore the lands upon which they 
have worked to their customary condition, to the satisfaction of the 
field officer in charge. 
12. All permits shall be terminable at the iheavstan of the Secre- 
tary having jurisdiction. 
13. The field officer in charge of land owned or controlled by the 
Government of the United States shall, from time to time, inquire 
and report as to the existence, on or near such lands, of ruins and 
archeological sites, historic or prehistoric ruins or monuments, 
objects of antiquity, historic landmarks, historic and _ prehistoric 
structures, and other objects of historic or ‘scientific interest. 
14. The field officer in charge may at all times examine the permit 
of any person or institution claiming privileges granted in accord- 
ance with the act and these rules and regulations, and may fully 
examine all work done under such permit. ’ 
15. All persons duly authorized by the Secretaries of Agriculture, 
War, and Interior may apprehend or cause to be arrested, as provided 
in the act of February 6, 1905 (33 Stat. L., 700), any person or per- 
sons who appropriate, excavate, injure, or destroy any historic or pre- 
historic ruin or monument, or any object of antiquity on lands under 
the supervision of the Secretaries of Agriculture, War, and Interior, 
respectively. 
16. Any object of antiquity taken, or collection made, on lands 
owned or controlled by the United States, without a permit, as pre- 
scribed by the act and these rules and regulations, or there taken or 
made, contrary to the terms of the permit, or contrary to the act and 
these rules and regulations, may be seized wherever found and at 
any time, by the proper field officer or by any person duly authorized 
by the Secretary having jurisdiction, and disposed of as the Secre- 
tary shall determine, by deposit in the proper national depository or 
otherwise. 
17. Every collection made under the authority of the act and of 
these rules and regulations shall be preserved in the public museum 
designated in the permit and shall be accessible to the public. No 
such collection shall be removed from such public museum without 
the written authority of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 
and then only to another public museum, where it shall be accessible 
to the public; and when any public museum, which is a depository of 
any collection made under the provisions of the act and these rules 
and regulations, shall cease to exist, every such collection in such 
