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PROPERTY. 
LAWS AND REGULATIONS. 
Property trespass, as provided for by Regulation T-3 r 
covers only defacement, damage, or destruction, etc., to 
Government property, including notices and signs, or 
going or being upon national forest land with intent to 
commit the same. Property offenses Avhich may require 
law-enforcement investigation and prosecution may in¬ 
clude robbery or theft under the Criminal Code, act of 
March 4, 1919, sections 46 or 47 (35 Stat. 1097), which 
provide as follows: 
Section 46. Whoever shall rob another of any kind or 
description of personal property belonging to the United 
States, or shall feloniously take and carry away the same, 
shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or 
imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. 
Section 47. Whoever shall embezzle, steal, or purloin any 
money, property, record, voucher, or valuable thing what¬ 
ever, of the moneys, goods, chattels, records of property of 
the United States, shall be fined not more than five 
thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than five years, 
or both. 
Section 48 of the same statute also provides similar penal¬ 
ties to those of section 47 for knowingly receiving, conceal¬ 
ing, etc., Government property stolen as in section 47. 
Section 60. Whoever shall wilfully or maliciously injure 
or destroy any of the works, property, or material of any 
telegraph, telephone, or cable line or system, operated or 
controlled by the United States, whether constructed or 
in process of construction, or shall wilfully or maliciously 
interfere in any way with the working or use of any such 
line or system, or shall wilfully or maliciously obstruct, 
hinder, or delay the transmission of any communication 
over any such line or system, shall be fined not more than 
one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than three 
years, or both. (Act of March 4, 1909, 35 Stat. 1099.) 
DESTROYING OR TEARING DOWN NOTICES. 
Section 616 of the California State Penal Code is as 
follows: 
Every person who intentionally defaces, obliterates, 
tears down, or destroys any copy or transcript or extract 
from or of any law of the United States or of this State, or 
any proclamation, advertisement, or notification set up at 
