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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. 86); March 1, 1911 (86 Stat. 968); 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 by reason of their 
existence, except so far as the punishment of offenses against the 
United States is concerned; the intent and meaning of this pro- 
vision being that the State wherein any such national forest is situ- 
ated shall not, by reason of the establishment thereof, lose its juris- 
diction, nor the inhabitants thereof their rights and privileges as 
citizens, or be absolved from their duties as citizens of the State. 
Arrests. 
Act March 8, 1905 (33 Stat. 873) ; Sec. 559, Title 16, U. S. C.: February 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- 
serves and national parks, and any person so ar rested shall be taken 
before the nearest United States commissioner, within whose juris- 
diction the reservation or national park is located, for trial; and 
upon sworn information by any competent person any United States 
commissioner in the proper jurisdiction shall issue process for the 
arrest of any person charged with the violation of said laws and 
regulations; but nothing herein contained shall be construed as pre- 
venting the arrest by any officer of the United States, without 
process, of any person taken in the act of violating said laws and 
regulations. 
Enforcement of laws. 
Act May 23, 1908 (85 Stat. 259); Sec. 553, Title 16, U. S. C. 
Hereafter officials of the Forest Service designated by the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture shall, in all ways that are pr sracticable, aid in the 
enforcement of the laws of the States and Territories with regard 
