Chapter 349. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to prevent forest fires on the public domain,” approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven
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CHAP. 349.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to prevent forest fires on the public domain,” approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. May 5, 1900. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That an Act entitled “An Public lands. Vol. 29, p. 594, amended. Act to prevent forest fires on the public domain,” approved February twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
" “That any person who shall willfully or maliciously set on fire, or Penalty for setting fire to timber, etc. cause to be set on fire, any timber, underbrush, or grass upon the public domain, or shall leave or suffer fire to burn unattended near any timber or other inflammable material, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the same shall be fined in a sum 170 not more than five thousand dollars or be imprisoned for a term of not more than two years, or both.
“Sec. 2. —for failure to extinguish before leaving fire. That any person who shall build a fire in or near any forest, timber, or other inflammable material upon the public domain shall, before leaving said fire, totally extinguish the same. Any person failing to do so shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any district court of the United States having jurisdiction of the same shall be fined in a sum not more than one thousand dollars or be imprisoned for a term of not more than one year, or both.
“Sec. 3. Disposition of fines collected. That in all cases arising under this Act the fines collected shall be paid into the public-school fund of the county in which the lands where the offense was committed are situated.” " Approved, May 5, 1900.