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gi-owiiig on the public lands of the United States; or whoever shall 

 remove, or cause to be removed, any timber from said public lands, 

 •with intent to exjiort or to dispose of the same; or whoever, being 

 the owner, master, or consignee of any vessel, or the owner, director, 

 or agent of any railroad, shall knowingly transport any timber so cut 

 or removed from said lands, or lumber manufactured therefrom, 

 shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisonment 

 not more than one year, or both. Nothing in this section shall pre- 

 vent any miner or agriculturist from clearing his land in the ordinary 

 working of his mining claini, or in the preparation of his farm for 

 tillage, or from taking the timber necessary to support his improve- 

 ments, or the taking of timber for the use of the United States. And 

 nothing in this section shall interfere with or take away anv right 

 under any existing law of the United States to cut or remove timber 

 from any public lands. 



Act March 4. 1909, c. 321, s. 49, 35 Stat. 109S. 



This is a section of an act entitled "Au act to codify, revise, and 

 amend the penal laws of the Tnitetl States," incorporating therein pro- 

 visions of act June 3. 1S78, c. 151, s. 4, set forth above. 



Timber depredations on lands reserved for public use; punishment for. 



Sec. 50. Whoever shall unlawfully cut, or .aid in unlawfully cut- 

 ting, or shall wantonly injure or destroy, or procure to be wantonly 

 injured or destroyed, an}'^ tree, growing, standing, or being upon any 

 land of the United States which, in pursuance of law, has been re- 

 served or purcha-^ed by the United States for any public use, or upon 

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

 of Indians under the authority of the United States, or any Indian 

 allotment while the title to the same shall be held in trust by the 

 Government, or while the same shall remain inalienable by the al- 

 lottee without the consent of the United States, shall be fined not more 

 than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or 

 both. 



Act of March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 50, 35 Stat. 1098. 



This section is a portion of "Au act to codify, revise, and amend the 

 penal laws of the United States," cited above, as amended by net June 

 25, 1910, c. 431, s. 6, 36 Stat. 857. Said act March 4, 1900, c. 321. s. CO, 

 incorporated therein the provisions of Rev. St. sec. 5388, as amended by 

 act June 4, 1SS8. c. 340. 25 Stat. 166, and said Rev. St. sec. 5388 and 

 said act June 4, 1888, were expressly repealed by section 341 of said 

 act March 4, 1909. 



Boxing, etc., trees for turpentine, etc.; punishment for. 



Sec. 51. "Whoever shall cut, chip, chop, or box any tree upon any 

 lands belonging to the United States, or upon any lands covered by 

 or embraced in^any unperfected settlement, application, filing, entry, 

 selection, or locationj made under any law of the United States, for 

 the purpose of obtaining from such tree any pitch, turpentine, or 

 other substance, or shallknowingly encourage, cause, procure, or aid 

 in the cutting, chipping, chopping, or boxing of any such tree, or 

 shall buy, trade for, or m anj^ manner acquire any nitch, turpentine, 

 or other substance, or any article or commodity made from any such 

 pitch, turpentine, or otlier substance, when he has knowledge that 

 the same has been so unlawfully obtained from such trees, shall be 



