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PROTECTION OF BIRDS. 



ACT OF JUNE 28, 1906 (34 STAT., 536). 



That it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, trap, cap- 

 ture, willfully disturb, or kill any bird of any kind whatever 

 or take the eggs of such birds on any lands of the United States 

 which have been set apart or reserved as breeding [587] 

 grounds for birds by any law, proclamation, or Executive order, 

 except under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed 

 from time to time by the Secretary of Agriculture. 



SEC. 2. That any persons violating the provisions of this act 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor 

 Penalty. and shall, upon conviction in any United 



States court of competent jurisdiction, be 

 fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars or be im- 

 prisoned for a period not exceeding six months, or shall suffer 

 both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion 

 Black Hills. o f the court : Provided, That the provisions 



of this act shall not apply to the Black Hills 

 Forest Reservation, in South Dakota. 



ARRESTS. 



ACT OF FEBRUARY 6, 1905 (33 STAT., 700). 



All persons employed in the forest-reserve and national-park 

 service of the United States shall have au- 

 ow<fl To arrest" thority to make arrests for the violation of 

 the laws and regulations relating to the forest 

 reserves and national parks, and any person so arrested shall 

 be taken before the nearest rutted States commissioner, within 

 whose jurisdiction the reservation or national park is located, 

 for trial ; and upon sworn information by any competent person 

 any United States commissioner in the proper jurisdiction shall 

 issue process for the arrest of any person charged with the vio- 

 lation of said laws. 



CRIMINAL APPEALS. 



ACT OF MARCH 2, 1907 (34 STAT., 1246). 



A writ of error may be taken by and on be- 



fourts! writs of er- lialf of the rutted States from the district or 

 ror in'criminai cases circuit courts direct to the Supreme Court of 

 to I . s. Supreme the United States in all criminal cases, in the 



following instances, to wit: 



From a decision or judgment quashing, setting aside, or sus- 

 , . ,. , taining a demurrer to any indictment or any 

 m entT d " <*o"nt thereof, where such decision or judg- 



ment is based upon the invalidity or construc- 

 tion of the statute upon which the indictment is founded. 



