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tables, or produce, or fruit of any kind, whether sacked, 

 boxed, or crated, or not, or any growing or standing 

 grain, grass, or tree, or any fence, or any railroad car, 

 lumber, cord wood, railroad ties, telegraph or telephone 

 poles, or shakes, or any tule land or peat ground of 

 the value of twenty-five dollars or over, not the prop- 

 erty of such person, is punishable by imprisonment in 

 the state prison for not less than one year nor more 

 than ten years. 



FEDERAL FIRE LAWS. 



Act of May 5, 1900 (31 Stats. 169). 



SECTION 1. Any person who shall wilfully or mali- 

 ciously set on fire any timber, underbrush, or grass 

 upon the public domain, or shall leave or suffer fire to 

 burn unattended near any timber or other inflammable 

 material, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction thereof in any district court of the 

 United States having jurisdiction of the same, shall be 

 fined in the sum of not more than five thousand dollars 

 or be imprisoned for a term of not more than two 

 years, or both. 



SEC. 2. Any person who shall build a fire in or near 

 any forest, timber, or other inflammable material upon 

 the public domain shall, before leaving said fire, totally 

 extinguish the same. Any person failing to do so shall 

 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- 

 tion thereof in any district court of the United States 

 having jurisdiction of the same, shall be fined in a sum 

 not more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned 

 for a term not more than one year, or both. 



SEC. 3. That in all cases arising under this act the 

 fines collected shall be paid into the public school fund 

 of the county in which the lands where the offense 

 was committed are situated. 



