114 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUEE. 



ing the arre.'-t bj- any officer of the United States, without process, of 

 any person taken in the act of violating said laws and regulations. 



Act February G. 1005, c. 45G, 33 Stat. 700. 



These provisions are reijeated in the same language in the agricultural 

 ai»])roi)riatioa act for the fiscal vear lOOC. act March 3, 1905, c. 1405, 83 

 Stat. 873. 



ACT MAY 23, 1908, c. 192. (35 Stat. 251.) 



Forest Service officials to aid in enforcement of local laws relating to stock, 

 prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, and protection of fish and 

 game, and with respect to national forests, to aid other Federal bureaus 

 and departments. 



* *■• * hereafter officials of the Forest Service designated by 

 the Secretary of Agriculture shall, in all ways that are practicable, 

 aid in the enforcement of the laws of the States or Territories with 

 regard to stock, for the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires, 

 and for the protection of fish and game, and with respect to National 

 Forests, shall aid the other Federal Bureaus and Departments on 

 request from them, in the performance of the duties imposed on them 

 by law . * * * 



Act May 23, 1908, c. 192, 35 Stat. 259. 



This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 

 year 1009, cited above. Pi*evions similar provisions for aiding in the 

 enforcement of the laws of the States or Territories, without the word 

 " hereafter," are contained in the similar appropriation acts for the 

 fiscal years 1006 and 1007. and a similar provision in the act for the 

 fiscal year 1008. with the word '" here.ifter." are s"upersede<l l^y the pro- 

 vision set forth a.bove. 



Previous to the transfer of the execution of laws afi'ecting forest re- 

 serves to the Secretary of Agriculture by act February 1, 1905, c. 288, 

 provisions requiring forest agents, superintendents, and supervisors, etc., 

 under the Secretary of the Interior to aid in the enforcement of the 

 laws of States or Territories in relation to the pi'otection of fish and 

 game, were contained in the sundry civil appropriation acts for the fiscal 

 years 1900 to 1905, inclusive. 



ACT JUNE 27, 1902, c. 1157. (32 Stat. 400.) 



Reservation of a portion of the standing timber on certain lands selected by 

 the Forester of the Department of Agriculture as forestry lands; addi- 

 tional reservation of certain timber and land from sale and settlement. 



* * * That in cutting the timber on two hundred thousand 

 acres of the pine lands, to be selected as soon as practicable by the 

 Forester of the Department of Agriculture, with the ai)proval of 

 the Secretary of the Interior, on the following reservations, to wit, 

 Chipj)ewas of .the Missis.sippi, Ix^ech Lake, Cass Lake, and Winne- 

 bigoshi.sh, which said lands so .selected shall be known and hereinafter 

 described as "■ forestry lands," the purchaser shall be required to 

 leave standing five per centum of the i)ine timber thereon for the pur- 

 pose of reforestation, as hereinafter ])rovided, said five per centum 

 to be selected and reserved in such manner and under such rules and 

 I'egiilations as may be jirescribed by the Forester of the Department 

 of Agriculture and approved by the Secrctarv of the Interior: Pro- 

 vided further. That there .shall be resei*A'cd from sale or settlement 

 the timber and land on the islands in Cass Lake and in Leech Lake, 

 and not less than one hundred and sixty acres at the extremity of 

 Sugar Point, on Leefh Lake, and the jUMiinsula known as Pine Point, 

 on wliich the new Leech Lake Agency is now located, which peninsula 

 apj)roxin\ates seven thousand acres, and in addition thereto ten sec- 



