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PROTECTION OF NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS.
Act of Congress, March 3, 1897.
Sec. 1. Every person who wilfully destroys, mutilates, defaces, injures, or removes any monument, statue, marker, guidepost, or other structure, or who wilfully destroys, cuts, breaks, injures, or removes any tree, shrub, or plant within the limits of any National Parks shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for each monument, statue, marker, guidepost, or other structure, tree, shrub, or plant destroyed, defaced, injured, cut, or removed, or by imprisonment for not less than fifteen days and not more than one year, or by both fine and imprisonment.
Sec. 2. That every person who shall trespass upon any National Parks for the purpose of hunting and shooting, or who shall hunt any kind of game thereon with a gun or dog, or shall set trap or net or other device whatsoever thereon for the purpose of hunting or catching game of any kind, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not less than five days or more than thirty days, or by both fine and imprisonment.
Sec. 3. That the superintendent or any guardian of such park is authorized to arrest forthwith any person engaged or who may have been engaged in committing any misdemeanor named in this Act, and shall bring such person before any United States commissioner or judge of any district or circuit court of the United States within either of the districts with- in which the park is situated, and in the District within which the misdemeanor has been committed, for the purpose of holding him to answer for such misdemeanor, and then and there shall make complaint in due form. |