252 THE USE BOOK. 



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

 work their discontinuance, but as to them 

 affected"* hereafter they shall be prosecuted and deter- 



mined under the provisions of this act. 

 NOTE. Fences on patented land, if they enclose public 

 land, are prohibited by this act. 

 Cainfield v. U. S., 167 U. S., 518. 



TIMBER ON RESERVED LANDS. 



ACT OF JUNE 4, 1888 (25 STAT., 166). 



Section fifty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised 

 Statutes of the United States be amended so 

 Penalty for trespass, as to read as follows: "Every person who 

 unlawfully cuts, or aids or is employed in 

 unlawfully cutting, or wantonly destroys or procures to be wan- 

 tonly destroyed, any timber standing upon the land of the 

 United States which, in pursuance of law, may be reserved or 

 purchased for military or other purposes, or upon any Indian 

 reservation, or lands belonging to or occupied by any tribe of 

 Indians under authority of the United States, shall pay a fine 

 of not more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned not 

 more than twelve months, or both, in the discretion of the 

 court." 



TRESPASS ON NATIONAL FORESTS. 



ACT OF JUNE 4, 1897 (30 STAT., 11). 



[35] The Secretary of the Interior shall make provisions for 

 the protection against destruction by fire and 

 Provisions for pro- depredations upon the public forests and for- 

 tection against fire, eg ^. reserva tions which may have been set 

 aside or which may be hereafter set aside un- 

 der the said act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 one, and which may be continued ; and he may make such rules 

 and regulations and establish such service as 

 tion". ' will insure the objects of such reservations, 



namely, to regulate their occupancy and use 

 and to preserve the forests thereon from destruction ; and any 

 violation of the provisions of this act or such rules and regula- 

 tions shall be punished as is provided for in 

 Penalty. the act of June fourth, eighteen hundred and 



R? S., sec. 5388. eighty-eight, amending section fifty-three hun- 

 dred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes 

 of the United States. (See above.) 



