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same; and no owner, master, or consignee of any vessel, or 

 Amendment, Aug. owner, director, or agent of any railroad, shall 

 4, i*!>2, c. 875, s. 2, knowingly transport the same, or any lumber 

 f *VeJls 8 aiid rail- manu ^ acture( l therefrom; and any person vio- 

 roads not 'to trains- lating the provisions of this section shall be 

 port such timber. guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction 

 Penalty. shall be fined for every such offense a sum 



not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars: 

 Provided, That nothing herein contained shall 

 Farmers, miners, prevent any miner or agriculturist from clear- 

 rL^oTedlrop"" S ^ land in the ordinary working of his 

 timber use. mining claim, or preparing his farm for tillage, 



or from taking the timber necessary to sup- 

 port his improvements, or the taking of timber for the use of the 

 Tinted States; and the penalties herein provided shall not take 

 effect until ninety days after the passage of this act. 



SEC. 5. Any person prosecuted in [any public land 



States] for violating section 2461 of the Revised 

 Co m p r o m 1 s e for Statutes of the United States who is not prose- 

 "an.e state or Terr " cut ?d for cutting timber for export from the 

 tory. United States, may be relieved from further 



prosecution and liability therefor upon pay- 

 ment, into the court wherein said action is pending, of the sum of 

 two dollars and fifty cents per acre for all lands on which he shall 

 have cut or caused to be cut timber, or removed or caused to be 

 removed the same: Provided, That nothing con- 

 part, reih tained in this section shall be construed as 

 Fines to IM> covered granting to the person hereby relieved the title 

 into u. S. Treasury, to said lands for said payment; but he shall have 

 peah'u 1 "for public"- the ri ht to purchase the same upon the same 

 land states. terms and conditions as other persons, as pro- 



Aiiiendmeiit, Aug. v ided hereinbefore in this act: And further pro- 

 *! 27, p. wS N ' '"' rided > That a11 moneys collected under this act 

 shall be covered into the Treasury of the United 

 States. And section 4751 of the Revised Statutes is hereby 

 repealed, so far as it relates to [* * * the public-land States). 

 NOTE 1. The words in brackets in above section are inserted 

 in place of the words "in said States and Territory," as ordered 

 by amending act of Aug. 4, 1892. 



NOTE 2. This section relieves the trespasser from criminal 

 but not from civil liability at common law. 



U. S. v. Scott, 39 Fed. Rep. , 900. 



NOTE 3. Act of Feb. 24, 1897 (29 Stat., 594), is amended by 

 the above section by omitting, where indicated by stars, the 

 words "camp fire or other'* and "breaking camp or," re- 

 spectively. 



NOTE 4. The other sections of this act, which is known as 

 the "Timber and stone act," provide for purchase of public 

 timber land. 



