Chapter 340. to amend section fifty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to timber depredations
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CHAP. 340.— An Act to amend section fifty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to timber depredations.June 4, 1888. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Punishment for timber depredations.[R. S., sec. 5388, p. 1044, amended](/us/rs/t/s5388/p1044). That section fifty-three hundred and eighty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended so as to read as follows:
“Every person who unlawfully cuts, or aids or is employed in unlawfully cutting, or wantonly destroys or procures to be wantonly destroyed, any timber standing upon the land of the United States which, in pursuance of law, may be reserved or purchased for military or other purposes, or upon Extended to Indian lands.any Indian reservation, or lands belonging to or occupied by any tribe of Indians under authority of the United States, shall pay a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or be imprisioned not more than twelve months, or both, in the discretion of the court.
” Approved, June 4, 1888.