FOREST RESERVES. i\) 
FOREST RESERVES. 
30 Statutes at Large, p. 35. 
Chap. 2. An Act Making ai>i>ropriation.s for sundry civil expenses of the Governineirt for tlie fiscal 
year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representativei> of the United States of America, 
in Congress assembled, That 
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The Secretary of the Interior ghall make provisions for the protection against 
destruction by fire and depredations upon the public forests and forest reservations 
wliich 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 wliich 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 tJie 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. 
