Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part I · Chapter 91 — Public Lands
§ 1858. Survey marks destroyed or removed
Statutory text
Whoever willfully destroys, defaces, changes, or removes to another place any section corner, quarter-section corner, or meander post, on any Government line of survey, or willfully cuts down any witness tree or any tree blazed to mark the line of a Government survey, or willfully defaces, changes, or removes any monument or bench mark of any Government survey, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
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.
Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 1858
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 789
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 789Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–322 title XXXIII § 330016(1)(E) · 108 Stat. 1796
Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 1858
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $250”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $250”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(E) in sections 701, 702, 703, 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 710, 711, 711a, 713, 715, 1164, and 1858 by striking “not more than $250” each place it appears and inserting “under this title”;
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 111 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 57, 35 Stat. 1099).
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $250”.
Credits
1948–1994 · 2 acts
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 789
- 1994Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(E), , 108 Stat. 2146.
Show as published
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 789; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(E), , 108 Stat. 2146.)