248 THE USE BOOK. 



no owner, master, or consignee of any vessel, 

 Vessels and rail- O r owner, director, or agent of any railroad, 

 ITrt "such* timber?" 8 " sna11 knowingly transport the same, or any 

 Penalty. lumber manufactured therefrom ; and any per- 



son violating the provisions of this section 

 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be 

 fined for every such offense a sum not less than one hundred 

 nor more than one thousand dollars : Pro- 

 Farmers, miners, vided, That nothing herein contained shall 

 U. S. allowed prope? prevent any miner or agriculturist from clear- 

 timber use. ing his land in the ordinary working of his 

 mining claim, or preparing his farm for till- 

 age, or from taking the timber necessary to support his im- 

 provements, or the taking of timber for the use of the United 

 States; and the penalties herein provided shall not take effect 

 until ninety days after the passage of this act. 



SEC. 5. Any person prosecuted in * * * [any public-land 

 States] for violating section 2461 of the Re- 

 Compr o m i s e for vised Statutes of the United States a who is 

 po^fro n m\Te TJnite X d n t prosecuted for cutting timber for export 

 States. from the United States, may be relieved from 



further prosecution and liability therefor 

 upon payment, into the court wherein said action is pending, 

 of the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per acre for all lands 

 on which he shall have cut or caused to be cut timber, or re- 

 moved or caused to be removed the same : Provided, That noth- 

 ing contained in this section shall be con- 

 No title granted to strued as granting to the person hereby re- 

 Pa Finesto e be e covered Heved the title to said lands for said pay- 

 into U. S. Treasury, ment ; but he shall have the right to purchase 

 K. S., sec. 4751, re- the same upon the same terms and conditions 

 iandStates r . " as ot . ner persons, as provided hereinbefore 



in this act : And further provided, That all 

 moneys collected under this act shall be covered into the Treas- 

 ury of the United States. And section 4751 of the Revised 

 Statutes is hereby repealed, so far as it relates to * * * 

 [the public-land States]. 



NOTE 1. The words in brackets in above section are in- 

 serted in place of the words " in said States and Territory," 

 as ordered by amending act of Aug. 4, 1892 (27 Stat., 348). 

 NOTE 2. This section relieves the trespasser from crimi- 

 nal but not from civil liability at common law. 



U. S. v. Scott, 39 Fed. Rep., 900. 



NOTE 3. The other sections of this act, which is known 

 as the " timber and stone act," provide for purchase of 

 public-timber land. 



a See p. 245. 



