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limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area 

 compatible with the proper care and management of the objects 

 to be protected: Provided, That when such objects are situated upon 

 a tract covered by a bona fide unperfected claim or held in private 

 ownership, the tract, or so much thereof as may be necessary for 

 the proper care and management of the object, may be relinquished 

 to the Government, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby 

 authorized to accept the relinquishment of such tracts in behalf of 

 the Government of the United States. 



Sec. 3. That permits for the examination of ruins, the excavation 

 of archaeological sites, and the gathering of objects of antiquity upon 

 the lands under their respective jurisdictions may be granted by the 

 Secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, and War to institutions 

 which they may deem properly qualified to conduct such examination, 

 excavation, or gathering, subject to such rules and regulations as 

 they may prescribe: Provided, That the examinations, excavations, 

 and gatherings are undertaken for the benefit of reputable museums, 

 universities, colleges, or other recognized scientific or educational 

 institutions, with a view to increasing the knowledge of such ob- 

 jects, and that the gatherings shall be made for permanent preserva- 

 tion in public museums. 



Sec. 4. That the Secretaries of the departments aforesaid shall 

 make and publish from time to time uniform rules and regulations 

 for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act.^ 



1909 — ^Act of March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. L., 1088, 1098) — An 

 Act To codify, revise, and amend the penal laws of 

 the United States. 



Sections 49-53 inclusive, and 56, 57, and 60, provide penalties for 

 timber depredations on public lands, reservations or Indian lands, 

 reserving the usual wood rights of mining men and homesteaders; 

 also for boxing trees for turpentine on public lands, or setting fires, 

 failing to extinguish fires, breaking fences, driving cattle, and injur- 

 ing survey marks and telegraph lines thereon. 



191 1— Act of March 4, 191 1 (36 Stat. L., 1363, 1421)— An 

 Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses 

 of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 

 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other 



purposes. 



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Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior shall submit in the annual 



1 Under authority of the foregoing act the various proclamations have 

 been made establishing the national monuments. A list of these proc- 

 lamations will be found under the section entitled "The National Monu- 

 ments," Chapter i, supra. 



