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

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

 substance, or shall knowingly encourage, cause, procure, or aid iu the 

 cutting, chipping, chopping, or boxing of any such tree, or shall buy, 

 trade for, or in any manner acquire any pitch, turpentine, or other 

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

 turpentine, or other substance, when he has knowledge that the same 

 has been so unlawfully obtained from such trees, shall be fined not more 

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

 both. 



Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat., 11). 



Provisions for [35] The Secretary of the Interior shall make provisions for the pro- 

 aeainst firc^etc n tec ti n against destruction by fire and depredations upon the public 

 forests and forest reservations which may have been set aside or which 

 may be hereafter set aside under the said act of March third, eighteen 

 Rules and regu- hundred and ninety-one, and which may be continued; and he may 

 lations. make such rules and regulations and establish such service as will 



insure the objects of such reservations, namely, to regulate their occu- 

 pancy and use and to preserve the forests thereon from destruction; 

 Penalty. and any violation of the provisions of this act or such rules and regula- 



R Ssecssss tions shall be punished as is provided for in the act of June fourth, 

 ' eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending section fifty-three hun- 

 dred and eighty- eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States. 



NOTE. The statutes referred to in the closing lines of the above act were both ex- 

 pressly repealed by the revised criminal code of 1909. The amending act (25 Stat., 166) 

 is, however, printed next below. 



f Act of June 4, 1888 (25 Stat., 166). 



Penalty for tres- Section fifty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes 

 of the United States be amended so as to read as follows: ' ' Every person 

 who unlawfully cuts, or aids or is employed in unlawfully cutting, or 

 wantonly destroys or procures to be wantonly destroyed, any timber 

 standing upon the land of the United States which, in pursuance of law, 

 may be reserved or purchased for military or other purposes, or upon 

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

 of Indians under authority of the United States, shall pay a fine of not 

 more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned not more than twelve 

 months, or both, in the discretion of the court." 



Act June 3, 1878 (20 Stat., 88). 

 [This act applies only to unreserved land not within National Forests.] 



Timber in min- g EC . i. All citizens of the United States and other persons, bona fide 

 Sfcut 1StnCtS may residents of the State of Colorado, or Nevada, or either of the Territories 

 of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Dakota, Idaho, or Montana, 

 and all other mineral districts of the United States, shall be, and are 

 hereby, authorized and permitted to fell and remove, for building, 

 agricultural, mining, or other domestic purposes, any timber or other 

 trees growing or being on the public lands, said lands being mineral, 

 and not subject to entry under existing laws of the United States, except 

 for mineral entry, in either of said States, Territories, or districts of 

 which such citizens or persons may be at the time bona fide residents, 

 Secretary of the subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may 

 late! U prescribe for the protection of the timber and of the undergrowth grow- 



Not to extend ing upon such lands, and for other purposes: Provided, The provisions 

 to railroads. O f this act shall not extend to railroad corporations. 



[NOTE. By virtue of power granted to the Secretary of the Interior under act of June 

 3, 1878 (20 Stat., 88), said Secretary provides, in his "rules and regulations governing the 

 use of timber on the public mineral lands" (29 L. D., 571): 



Disposal of tops, "SEC. 9. Persons felling or removing timber under the provisions of this act must 

 brush, and other utilize all of each tree cut that can be profitably used, and must dispose of the tops, 

 refuse. brush, and other refuse in such manner as to prevent the spread of forest fires." 



Duty of land SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the register and the receiver of any 

 local land office in whose district any mineral land may be situated to 

 ascertain from time to time whether any timber is being cut or used 

 upon any such lands, except for the purposes authorized by this act, 

 within their respective land districts; and, if so, they shall immedi- 



