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FOREST RESERVES. 



30 Statutes at IJarg-e, p. 35. 



Chap, 2. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal 

 year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes. 



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

 in Congress assembled, That 



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The Secretary of the Interior shall make provisions for the protection against 

 destruction by fire and depredations upon the public forests and forest reservations 

 which may have been set aside or which may be hereafter set aside under the said 

 Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and which may be continued; 

 and he may make such rules and regulations and establish such service as will-insure 

 the objects of such reservations, namely, to regulate their occupancy and use and to 

 preserve the forests thereon from destruction; and any violation of the provisions of 

 this Act or such rules and regulations shall be punished as is provided for in the 

 Act of June fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending section fifty-three 

 hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States. [Penalty 

 for unlawful cutting or destroying of timber, a fine of not more than $500 or impris- 

 onment more than 12 months, or both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of 

 the court.] 



Approved June 4, 1897. 



GOVERNMENT RESERVATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR. 



30 Statutes at Larg-e, p. 717. 



Chap. 576. An Act To protect the harbor defenses and fortifications constructed or used by the United 

 States from malicious injury, and for other purposes. 



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

 in Congress assembled, 



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Sec. 2. That when any offense is committed in any place, jurisdiction over which 

 has been retained by the United States or ceded to it by a State, or which has been 

 purchased with the consent of a State for the erection of a fort, magazine, arsenal, 

 dockyard, or other needful building or structure, the punishment for which offense 

 is not provided for by any law of the United States, the person committing such 

 offense shall, upon conviction in a circuit or district court of the United States for 

 the district in which the offense was committed, be liable to and receive the same 

 punishment as the laws of the State in which such place is situated now provide for 

 the like offense when committed within the jurisdiction of such State, and the said 

 courts are hereby vested with jurisdiction for such purpose; and no subsequent 

 repeal of any such State law shall affect any such prosecution. 



Approved July 7, 1898. 



