so reserved, excepting such laws as affect the surveying, prospecting, 

 locating, appropriating, entering, relinquishing, reconveying, certify- 

 ing, or patenting of any of such lands. 



Note. — Laws relating to surveying, prospecting, locating, appropriating, enter- 

 ing, relinquishing, reconveying, certifying, or patenting are administered by 

 Secretary of Interior. 



Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 34) ; sec. 475, title 16, U. S. C. 



All public lands heretofore designated and reserved by the Presi- 

 dent of the United States under the provisions of the act approved 

 March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the orders for which 

 shall be and remain in full force and effect, unsuspended and un- 

 revoked, and all public land that may hereafter be set aside and 

 reserved as public forest reserves under said act, shall be as far as 

 practicable controlled and administered in accordance with the fol- 

 lowing provisions. 



Rules and regulations. 



Sec. 551, title 16, U. S. C. 



The Secretary of Agriculture shall make provisions for the pro- 

 tection against destruction by fire and depredations upon the public 

 forests and national forests which may have been set aside or which 

 may be hereafter set aside under the provisions of section 471 of 

 this title, 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 viola- 

 tion of the provisions of this act or such rules and regulations shall 

 be punished as is provided for in the act of June 4, 1888, amending 

 section 3388 of the Revised Statutes of the United States. 



Civil and criminal. 



Act of June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 36) ; March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 963) ; sec. 480, 



title 16, U. S. C. 



The jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, over persons within na- 

 tional forests shall not be affected or changed bv reason of their 

 existence, except so far as the punishment of offenses against the 

 United States is concerned ; the intent and meaning of this provision 

 being that the State wherein any such national forest is situated shall 

 not, by reason of the establishment thereof, lose its jurisdiction, nor 

 the inhabitants thereof their rights and privileges as citizens, or be 

 absolved from their duties as citizens of the State. 



Arrests. 



Act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 873) ; sec. 559, title 16, U. S. C. : Februarv 6, 

 1905 (33 Stat. 700) ; sec. 559, title 16, U. S. C. 



All persons employed in the forest reserve and national park 

 service of the United States shall have authority to make arrests for 

 the violation of the laws and regulations relating to the forest re- 



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