YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 77 
SEQUOIA, YOSEMITE. AND GENERAL GRANT NATIONAL PARKS. 
31 Statutes at Large, p. 618. 
lAP. 791. An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil exi>enses of the Government for the fiscal 
year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and one, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America 
Onigress assembled. That 
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The Secretary of War, njyon the request of the Secretary of the Interior, i« hereafter 
authorized and directed to make the necessary detail of troops to prevent trejjpa«sers 
> >Y intruders from entering the Sequoia National Park, the Yoseniite National Park, 
and the General Grant National Park, respectively, in California, for the purpose of 
.lestroying 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 Large, pp. 73-75. 
'HAP. 72. An Act To protect the birds and animals in Yellowstone National Park, and to punish 
crimes in said i>ark, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatires of the United States of America 
ill Congress assembled, That the Yellowstone National Park, as its boundaries now are 
defined, or as they may be hereafter defined or extended, shall l)e under the sole and 
exclusive jurisdiction of the United States; and that all the laws applica1)le to places 
under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States shall have force and 
effect in said park: Provided, however That nothing in this Act shall be construed to 
forbid the ser\ice in the park of any civil or criminal process of any court having 
jurisdiction in the State*- 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 r»f 
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 m force at the time of the commission 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 AVyoming 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 neces.sary 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. 
