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logical sites, historic or prehistoric ruins or monuments, objects of 

 antiquity, historic landmarks and prehistoric structures, and other 

 objects of historic or scientific interest. 



14. The field officer in charge may at all times examine the permit of 

 any person or institution claiming privileges granted in accordance with 

 the acts and these rules and regulations, and may fully examine all work 

 under such permit. 



15. All persons duly authorized by the Secretaries of Agriculture, 

 War, and Interior may apprehend or cause to be arrested, as provided in 

 the act of February 6, 1905 (33 Stat., 700), any person or persons who 

 appropriate, excavate, injure, or destroy any historic or prehistoric ruin 

 or monument or any object of antiquity on lands under the supervision 

 of the Secretaries of Agriculture, War, and Interior, respectively. 



16. Anyobjectof antiquity taken, or collection made, on lands owned 

 or controlled by the United States without a permit, as prescribed by 

 the act and these rules and regulations, or there taken or made, contrary 

 to the terms of the permit or contrary to the act and these rules and 

 regulations, may be seized, wherever found and at any time, by the 

 proper field officer or by any person duly authorized by the Secretary 

 having jurisdiction, and disposed of as the Secretary shall determine, by 

 deposit in the proper national depository or otherwise. 



17. Every collection made under the authority of the act and of these 

 rules and regulations shall be preserved in the public museum desig- 

 nated in the permit and shall be accessible to the public. No such col- 

 lection shall be removed from such public museum without the written 

 authority of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and then only 

 to another public museum, where it shall be accessible to the public; 

 and when any public, museum, which is a depository of any collection 

 made under the provisions of the act and these rules and regulations, 

 shall cease to exist, every such collection in such public museum shall 

 thereupon revert to the national collections and be placed in the proper 

 national depository. 



WASHINGTON, B.C., December 28, 1906. 



The foregoing rules and regulations are hereby approved, in triplicate, 

 and, under authority conferred by law on the Secretaries of the Interior, 

 Agriculture, and War are hereby made and established to take effect 

 immediately. 



E. A. HITCHCOCK, 

 Secretary of the Interior. 

 JAMES WILSON, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 

 WM. H. TAFT, 



Secretary of War. 



Wichita game Act of January 24, 1905 (33 Stat., 614), authorizes the President to set 

 aside lands within the Wichita National Forest as a game refuge and 

 declares that the purpose of the act is to protect the land of the United 

 States from trespass, and not to interfere with local game laws, etc. 1 

 Penal provisions of the act will be found under "Trespass," page 67, 

 post. 



Grand Canon Act of June 29, 1906 (34 Stat., 607), contains provisions substantially 

 like those of the act next above cited. 



OPERATION. 



PERSONNEL. 



Forest transfer act of February 1, 1905 (33 Stat., 628). 



Forest officers SEC. 3. That forest supervisors and rangers shall be selected, when 

 froni states practicable, from qualified citizens of the States or Territories in 

 where forests are which the said reserves, respectively, are situated, 

 situated. 



1 The Secretary of the Interior [now Agriculture] can not. without express authority 

 of law, prescribe rules and regulations by which the National Forests may be made 

 refuges for game, or by which the hunting, killing, or capture of game thereon may be 

 forbidden. As to the National Forests in general, no such authority is conferred either 

 by the act of June 4, 1897, or any other provision of law. (23 Op. Atty. Gen., 589.) 



