YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 77 



SEaUOIA, YOSEMITE, AND GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL PARKS. 



31 Statutes at Larg-e, p. 618. 



Chap. 791. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal 

 year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes. 



Be It enacted hi/ the Senate and House of Represerktatlves of the United States of America 

 ill Con(jress assembled. That 



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The Secretary of War, upon the request of the Secretary of the Interior, i^ hereafter 

 authorized and directed to make the necessary detail of troops to prevent trespassers 

 or intruders from entering the Sequoia National Park, the Yosemite National Park, 

 and the General Grant Naptional Park, respectively, in California, for the purpose of 

 destroying the game or objects of curiosity therein, or for any other purpose prohib- . 

 ited by law or regulation for the government of said reservations, and to remove such 

 persons from said parks if found therein. 



Approved June 6, 1900. 



YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.^ 



28 Statutes at Larg-e, pp. 73-75. 



CHAP. 72. An Act To protect the birds and animals in Yellowstone National Tark, and to punish 

 crimes in said park, and for other purposes. 



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

 in Congress assembled, That the Yellowstone National Park, as its boundaries now are 

 defined, or as they may be hereafter defined or extended, shall be under the sole and 

 exclusive jurisdiction of the United States; and that all the laws applicable to places 

 under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States shall have force and 

 effect in said park: Provided, hoivever That nothing in this Act shall be construed to 

 forbid the service in the park of any civil or criminal process of any court having 

 jurisdiction in the States of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. All fugitives from 

 justice taking refuge in said park shall be subject to the same laws as refugees from 

 justice found in the State of Wyoming. 



Sec. 2. That said park, for all the purposes of this Act, shall constitute a part of 

 the United States judicial district of Wyoming, and the district and circuit courts of 

 the United States in and for said district shall have jurisdiction of all offenses com- 

 mitted within said park. 



Sec. 3. That if any offense shall be committed in said Yellowstone National Park, 

 which offense is not prohibited or the punishment is not specially provided for by 

 any law of the United States or by any regulation of the Secretory of the Interior, 

 the offender shall be subject to the same punishment as the laws of the State of 

 Wyoming in force at the time of the connnission of the offense may provide for a 

 like offense in the said State; and no subsequent repeal of any such law of the State 

 of Wyoming shall affect any prosecution for said offense committed within said park. 



Sec. 4. That all hunting, or the killing, wounding, or capturing at any time of 

 any bird or wild animal, except dangerous animals, when it is necessary to prevent 

 them from destroying human life or inflicting an injury, is prohibited within the 

 limits of said park; nor shall any fish be taken out of the waters of the park by 

 means of seines, nets, traps, or by the use of drugs or any explosive substances or 



^For an interesting history of this act see 'Hunting in Many Lands' (Boone & 

 Crockett Club series). New York, pp. 403-423, 1895. 



