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the United States, without authority from the Commissioner of 

 Forests, any saw-mill or manufactory of lumber or other timber 

 products, or to be engaged or be employed in the manufacture of 

 lumber, charcoal, pitch or turpentine upon public lands, or to use at 

 any such mill, manufactory, or works any timber cut or removed 

 from public lands; and any person violating this section shall be 

 liable to a fine of not less than five hundred and not more than five 

 thousand dollars, in addition to the penalties hereinbefore pre- 

 scribed; and all mills, manufactories and works so erected and 

 maintained upon public lands shall be absolutely forfeited to the 

 United States. 



PENALTIES FOK TRANSPORTING AND HANDLING ILLEGALLY CUT 



TIMBER. 



SEC. 19. That if any master, owner or consignee of any vessel, or 

 any officer or agent of any railroad company, shall knowingly re- 

 ceive for shipment any timber, lumber, or timber product taken 

 without authority from timber lands of the United States, with 

 intent to transport the same to any port or place within the United 

 States, or to export the same to any foreign country, every such 

 master, owner, consignee, officer, agent or railroad company shall 

 be liable to the penalties prescribed in the seventeenth section of 

 this act; and the vessel on board of which any such timber, lumber 

 or timber product shall be taken, transported or seized, shall be 

 wholly forfeited to the United States. 



RESTRICTING QUALITY OF FOREST OFFICERS. 



SEC. 20. That no person who is directly or indirectly engaged in 

 the manufacture of lumber or timber products, or who is conduct- 

 ing any business which requires a large consumption of timber or 

 wood, shall be qualified to serve as Commissioner of Forests under 

 this act, or to serve in any official capacity in connection with the 

 public forest lands. 



REPEALING CLAUSE. 



SEC. 21. That the acts of June third, eighteen hundred and seventy- 

 eight, chapters one hundred and fifty and one hundred and fifty- 

 one, and the first and second sections of the act of June fifteenth, 

 eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled "An act relating to the public 

 lands of the United States," and all acts and parts of acts incon- 

 sistent with this at, be, and the same are, hereby repealed. 



