Chapter 576. To protect the harbor defenses and fortifications constructed or used by the United States from malicious injury, and for other purposes
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Chap. 576: To protect the harbor defenses and fortifications constructed or used by the United States from malicious injury, and for other purposes. Chapter 576 30 Stat. 717 1898-07-07 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-11-03 55 2 30 public chap. 576.— An Act To protect the harbor defenses and fortifications constructed or used by the United States from malicious injury, and for other purposes.
July 7, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That any person who shallArmy.Protection of harbor defenses and fortifications. willfully, wantonly, or maliciously trespass upon, injure, or destroy any of the works or property or material of any submarine mine or torpedo, or fortification or harbor-defense system owned or constructed or in process of construction by toe United States, or shall willfully or maliciously interfere with the operation or use of any such submarine mine, torpedo, fortification, or harbor-defense system, or shall knowingly, willfully or wantonly violate any regulation of the War Department that has been made for the protection of such mine, torpedo, fortification or harbor defense system shall be punished, on conviction—penalty for injury to. thereof in a district court of the United States for the district in which the offense is committed, by a flue of not less than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or with both, in the discretion of the court.
Sec. 2. That when any offense is committed in any place, jurisdictionOffenses committed in places under Federal jurisdiction. over which has been retained by the United States or ceded to it by a State, or which has been purchased with the consent of a State for the erection of a fort, magazine, arsenal, dockyard, or other needful building or structure, the punishment for which offense is not provided for—where no penalty provided by Federal law.—United States courts to have jurisdiction. by any law of the United States, the person committing such offense shall, upon conviction in a circuit or district court of the United States for the district in which the offense was committed, be liable to and receive the same punishment as the laws of the State in which such—penalty, etc. place is situated now provide for the like offense when committed within the jurisdiction of such State, and the said courts are hereby vested with jurisdiction for such purpose: and no subsequent repeal of any such State law shall affect any such prosecution.
Approved, July 7, 1898.
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