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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 25 — Unlawful Inclosures or Occupancy; Obstructing Settlement or Transit

§ 1064. Violations of chapter; punishment

Statutory text

Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter, whether as owner, part owner, or agent, or who shall aid, abet, counsel, advise, or assist in any violation hereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in a sum not exceeding $1,000, or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, for each offense.

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. 48–149 § 4 · 23 Stat. 67

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 1064

    Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 149, § 4, 23 Stat. 322

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 149, § 4, 23 Stat. 322

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 4. That all railroad companies desiring the use of said bridge Other railroads to have privileges of bridge. shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges relative to the passage of railway trains over the same, and over the approaches thereto, upon payment of a reasonable compensation for such use ; and in case the owner or owners of said bridge, or persons or corporation controlling the same, and the several railroad companies, or any of them, desiring such use, shall fail to agree upon the sum or sums to be paid, and upon rules and conditions to which each shall conform in using said bridge, all matters at issue between them shall be decided by the Sec- retai y of War, upon a bearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

1885–1908 · 2 acts
  1. 1885Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 149, § 4, 23 Stat. 322
  2. 1908Mar. 10, 1908, ch. 75, 35 Stat. 40.
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(Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 149, § 4, 23 Stat. 322; Mar. 10, 1908, ch. 75, 35 Stat. 40.)

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