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without such warrant when the offender is taken in the act of 

 violating any provision of Regulation 64, or any criminal law 

 relating to National Forests. Unless, however, the trespass 

 threatens damage to the Forest or interference with its man- 

 agement, or the offender is likely to escape, no arrest should 

 be made, or other step taken to institute any criminal or 

 civil suit, until a report of the trespass, with signed state- 

 ments from the witnesses, has been sent to the Forester, in 

 order that he may give appropriate instructions. 



Any Forest officer making an arrest must, as soon as prac- 

 ticable, take the offender before the nearest United States com- 

 missioner, and thereafter stand ready to carry out any mandate 

 of the commissioner relative to the custody of the prisoner. He 

 will also at once inform the supervisor within whose jurisdic- 

 tion the offense was committed. It is the duty of each super- 

 visor to inform the district attorney promptly of any such ar- 

 rest, and to render him the fullest assistance in collecting evi- 

 dence. Each supervisor will also keep the Forester fully in- 

 formed of each arrest and of further steps in the prosecution. 



When a Forest officer makes an arrest he will be reimbursed 

 for the necessary expense incident to such arrest. When such 

 expenses are incurred by a ranger he will be reimbursed through 

 the supervisor. 



PROTECTION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. 



KEG. 81. The following acts within National Forests are 

 forbidden : 



(a) Willful destruction of or damage to any property 

 belonging to or used by the United States for National 

 Forest purposes. 



(b) The willful tearing down or defacing of any notice 

 of the Forest Service. 



