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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 4 — Protection of Timber, and Depredations

§ 601. Disposition of moneys collected for depredations

Statutory text

All moneys collected for depredations upon the public lands shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as other moneys received from the sale of public lands.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 45–76 § 2 · 20 Stat. 46

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 601

    (Apr. 30, 1878, ch. 76, § 2, 20 Stat. 46.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Apr. 30, 1878, ch. 76, § 2, 20 Stat. 46.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. For diagrams, furniture, and repairs in the General Land Miscellaneous items General Land and Office. Office, miscellaneous items, including two of the city newspapers, to be filed, bound, and preserved for the use of the office, and for advertising and telegraphing, the sum of seven thousand live hundred dollars; for the actual expenses of clerks detailed to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses oil the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, Collections for depredations on lands. seven thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That, all moneys heretofore, and that shall hereafter be, collected for Wood cut on unsure eyed lands. When may be siezed. depredations upon the public lands shall be covered in the Treasury of the United States as other moneys received from the sale of public lands: And provided further, That where wood and timber lands in the Territories of the United States are not surveyed and offered for sale in proper subdivisions, convenient of access, no money herein appropriated shall be used to collect any charge for wood or timber cut on the public lands in the Territories of the United States for the use of actual settlors in the Territories, and not for export from the Territories of the. United States where the timber grew: And provided, further, That if any timber cut on the public lands shall be exported from the Territories of the United States, it shall be liable to seizure by United States authority wherever found.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Apr. 30, 1878, ch. 76, § 2, 20 Stat. 46.)

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