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SEC. 5. That the President is hereby authorized to take such meas- President may 

 ures as shall be necessary to remove and destroy any unlawful inclosure fJJJ5J ve fenCe by 

 of any of said lands, and to employ civil or military force as may be 

 necessary for that purpose. 



SEC. 6. That where the alleged unlawful inclosure includes less than inciosures o f 

 one hundred and sixty acres of land, no suit shall be brought under the ^f r s es than 16 

 provisions of this act without authority from the Secretary of the Inte- 

 rior. 



SEC. 7. That nothing herein shall affect any pending suits to work Pending suits 

 their discontinuance, but as to them hereafter they shall be prosecuted not affected - 

 and determined under the provisions of this act. 



MISCELLANEOUS TRESPASSES AND OTHER OFFENSES AGAINST THE 

 UNITED STATES. 



Act of June 8, 1906 (34 Stat., 225), for the preservation of American antiquities. 



Any person who shall appropriate, excavate, injure, or destroy any Destruction of 

 historic or prehistoric ruin. or monument, or any object of antiquity, historic and pre- 

 situated on lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United " 



States, without the permission of the Secretary of the Department of prohibited. 



the Government having jurisdiction over the lands on which said antiq- 



uities are situated, shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum of not more 



than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned for a period of not more than Penalty. 



ninety days, or shall suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the discre- 



tion of the court. 



The remainder of the foregoing act, authorizing the establishment of national mon- 

 uments, is printed ante, page 12. 



CRIMINAL CODE OF MARCH 4, 1909. 



SEC. 84. Whoever shall hunt, trap, capture, willfully disturb, or Hunting, etc., 

 kill any bird of any kind whatever, or take the eggs of any such bird, on bird refuges. 

 on any lands of the United States which have been set apart or reserved 

 as breeding grounds for birds by any law, proclamation, or executive 

 order, except under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture may, from time to time, prescribe, shall be fined not more than 

 five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. 



(The foregoing section seems to be a codification of the act of June 28, 

 1906 (34 Stat., 536). That act, however, is not specifically repealed, 

 and it contains the following proviso: "Provided, That the provisions 

 of this act shall not apply to the Black Hills Forest Reservation, in 

 South Dakota.") 



Act of Jan. 24, 1905 (33 Stat., 614); act of June 29, 1906 (34 Stat.. 607). 



The foregoing acts, which authorize the establishment of the Wichita game and bird 

 refuge and the Grand Canyon game refuge contain penal provisions substantially the 

 same as in section 84, supra. 



SEC. 55. Whoever, except forest rangers and otherpersons employed Trespass on 

 by the United States to protect the forest, Federal and State officers Bull Run Forest. 

 in the discharge of their duties, and the employees of the water board 

 of the city of Portland, State of Oregon, shall knowingly trespass upon 

 any part of the reserve known as Bull Run National Forest, in the Cas- 

 cade Mountains, in the State of Oregon, or shall enter thereon for the 

 purpose of grazing stock, or shall engage in grazing stock thereon, or 

 shall permit stock of any kind to graze thereon, shall be fined not more 

 than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months. 

 or both. 



SEC. 56. Whoever shall knowingly and unlawfully break, open or Breaking inclo- 

 destroy any gate, fence, hedge, or wall inclosing any lands of the United sures> 

 States which, in pursuance of any law, have been reserved or purchased 

 by the United States for any public use; or whoever shall drive any 

 cattle, horses, hogs, or other live stock upon any such lands for the pur- 

 pose of destroying the grass or trees on said lands, or where they may 

 destroy the said grass or trees; or whoever shall knowingly permit his Permitting 

 cattle, horses, hogs, or other live stock, to enter through any such stock to trespass. 

 inclosure upon any such lands of the United States, where such cattle, 

 horses, hogs, or other live stock may or can destroy the grass or trees or 

 other property of the United States on the said lands, shall be fined not 



