National Park Protective Act 



An Act to protect the birds and animals in Yellowstone National 

 Park, and to punish crimes in said Park, and for other purposes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 

 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

 That the Yellowstone National Park, as its boundaries 

 now are defined, or as they may be hereafter defined or 

 extended, shall be under the sole and exclusive jurisdic- 

 tion of the United States; and that all the laws applicable 

 to places under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the 

 United States shall have force and effect in said Park : 

 Provided, however, That nothing in this Act shall be con- 

 strued to forbid the service in the Park of any civil or 

 criminal process of any court having jurisdiction in the 

 States of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. All fugitives 

 from justice taking refuge in said Park shall be subject 

 to the same laws as refugees from justice found in the 

 State of Wyoming. 



Sec. 2. That said Park, for all the purposes of this 

 Act, shall constitute a part of the United States judicial 

 district of Wyoming, and the district and circuit courts 

 of the United States in and for said district shall have 

 jurisdiction of all offenses committed within said Park. 



Sec. 3. That if any offense shall be committed in said 

 Yellowstone National Park, which offense is not pro- 

 hibited or the punishment is not specially provided for 



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