76 DIGEST OF GAME LAWS FOR 1901. 



said Territory the eggs or the contents of the eggs of any crane, wild duck, brant, or 

 goose, nor shall any person, common carrier or other transportation comjany carry 

 or receive for shipment such eggs or the contents of said eggs, and any person or 

 company who shall have in possession or receive for shipment or transportation any 

 eggs or the contents of any eggs of the crane, wild duck, brant, or goose shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction be punished as provided in this sec- 

 tion. Any person or company violating the provisions of this section shall be pun- 

 ished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding 

 six months. 



Approved June 6, 1900. 



INDIAN TERRITORY. 



Revised Statutes U. S., 1878. 



Sec. 2137. Every person, other than an Indian, who, within the limits of any 

 tribe with whom the United States has existing treaties, hunts, or traps, or takes 

 and destroys any peltries or game, except for subsistence in the Indian country, 

 shall forfeit all the traps, guns, and ammunition in his possession, used or pro- 

 cured to be used for that purpose, and all peltries so taken; and shall be liable in 

 addition to a penalty of five hundred dollars. 



MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK. 



30 Statutes at Larg-e, pp. 993-996. 



Chap. 377. An Act To set aside a portion of certain lands in the State of Waslii Tton, now known as 

 the Pacific Forest Reserve, as a public park, to be known as the Mount Rainier National Park. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 

 in Congress assembled, That all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying 

 and being in tlie State of Washington, and within the boundaries particularly 

 described as follows^ * * * are hereby dedicated and set apart as a public park, 

 to be known and designated as the Mount Rainier National Park, for the benefit and 

 enjoyment of the people; and all persons who shall locate or settle upon or occupy 

 the same, or any part thereof, except as hereafter provided, shall be considered 

 trespassers and be removed therefrom. 



Sec. 2. That said public park shall be under the exclusive control oi the Secretary 

 of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to make and publish, as soon as i)racti cable, 

 such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary or proper for the care and 

 management of the same. Such regulations shall provide for the preservation from 

 injury or spoliation of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders 

 within said park, and their retention in their natural condition. * * ^ He shall 

 also provide against the wanton destruction of the fish and game found within said 

 park, and against their capture or destruction for the purposes of merchandise or 

 profit. He shall also cause all persons trespassing upon the same after the passage 

 of this Act to be removed therefrom, and generally shall be authorized to take all 

 such measures as shall be necessary to fully carry out the objects and purposes of 

 this Act. 



Approved March 2, 1899. 



^The area of the park is 207,360 acres, or 324 square miles; in other words, about 

 one-fourth the size of Rhode Island. 



