FOREST SERVICE. 113 



PROCLAMATION JUNE 23. 1908. (35 Stat. 2192.) 



Areas in Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, set aside for protection as breeding 

 place for game animals, enlarged. 



AViiEREAS. it is provided by the Act of Congress, approved June 

 twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled, "An Act for the 

 protection of wild animals in the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve," 

 •' That the President of the United States is hereby authorized to 

 designate such areas in the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve as should, 

 in his opinion, be ^set aside for the protection of game animals and 

 be recognized as a breeding place therefor. 



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And whereas, the Grand Canyon Game Preserve, in Ihe Territory 

 of Arizona, was established by proclamation dated November twenty- 

 eighth, nineteen hundred and six : 



And wherea«, for the purpose of giving the said Act greater effect, 

 it appears desirable to enlarge the said Game Preserve, in the Terri- 

 tory of Arizona, by including therein certain additional lands; 



Now. therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United 

 States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the afore- 

 said Act of Congre-s, do hereby proclaim that all those lands within 

 the area of the Grand Canyon National Game Preserve, as indicated 

 on the attached diagram, are designated and set aside for the protec- 

 tion of game animals, and shall be recognized as a breeding place 

 therefor, and that the hunting, trapping, killing, or capturing of 

 game animals upon the lands of the United States within the limits 

 of said area is unlawful, except under such regulations as may be 

 prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of Agriculture. 



Ix WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the 

 seal of the United States to be affixed. 



Done at the City of Washington this 23d day of June, in the year 

 of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight, and of the In- 

 dependence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second. 



Theodore Rooseveet. 

 Proclamation June 23, 1908, 35 Stat. 2102. 



Act June 29, 1906, c. 3593, mentioned in this proclamation, is set forth 

 above. 



ACT FEBRUARY 6. 1905. c. 456. An act for the protection of the public forest 

 reserves and national parks of the United States. (33 Stat. 700.) 



Forest Service employees authorized to make arrests for violations of laws and 

 regulations relating to forest reserves; proceedings thereon. 



That all persons employed in the forest reserve and national park 

 service of the United States shall have authority to make arrests for 

 the violation of the laws and regulations relating to the forest re- 

 serves and national parks, and any person so arrested shall be taken 

 before the nearest United States commissioner, within whose juris- 

 diction the re^^ervation 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 ar- 

 rest of any person charged with the violation of said laws and regu- 

 lations; but nothing herein contained shall be construed as prevent- 



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