244 THE USE BOOK. 



and Wyoming, where the period in which they were, or are, re- 

 quired by law to make entry under such declaratory statement 

 or establish residence expired or expires, after December first, 

 nineteen hundred and six, are hereby granted until May fif- 

 teenth, nineteen hundred and seven, within which to make such 

 entry or actual settlement and establish residence upon the 

 lands so entered by them : Provided, That this extension of time 

 shall not shorten either the period of commutation or of actual 

 residence under the homestead law. * * * 



COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES. NATIONAL MONUMENTS. 



ACT OF JUNE 8, 1906 (34 STAT., 225). 



Any person who shall appropriate, excavate, injure, or destroy 

 any historic or prehistoric ruin or monument, 

 hiftoric riC monHmem e s or an ^ object of antiquity, situated on lands 

 protected. Trespass, owned or controlled by the Government of the 

 United States, without the permission of the 

 Secretary of the Department of the Government having juris- 

 diction over the lands on which said antiquities 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 

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

 discretion of the court. 



SEC. 2. That the President of the United States is hereby au- 

 thorized, in his discretion, to declare by pub- 

 Objects of historic ij c proclamation historic landmarks, historic 

 STay Te resVrvedw and prehistoric structures, and other objects 

 national monuments, of historic or scientific interest that are situ- 

 ated upon the lands owned or controlled by 

 the Government of the United States to be national monuments, 

 and may reserve as a part thereof parcels of land the limits of 

 which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area com- 

 patible with the proper care and management of the objects to 

 be protected : Provided, That when such objects are situated 

 upon a tract covered by a bona fide unperfected claim or held in 

 private ownership, the tract, or so much thereof as may be nec- 

 essary for the proper care and management of the object, may 

 be relinquished to the Government, and the Secretary of the 

 Interior is hereby ^authorized to accept the relinquishment of 

 such tracts in behalf of the Government of the United States. 

 SEC. 3. That permits for the examination of ruins, the exca- 

 vation of archaeological sites, and the gather- 

 Permits for exami- mg o f objects of antiquity upon the lands 

 "ndToliec^on! ' uu <ler their respective jurisdictions may be 

 granted by the Secretaries of the Interior, 

 Agriculture, and War to institutions which they may deem 

 properly qualified to conduct such examination, excavation, or 

 gathering, subject to such rules and regulations as they may 



