The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and DescriptiveChittenden, Hiram Martin
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The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive
Chittenden, Hiram Martin
Yellowstone National Park
... The Secretary of War, upon the request of the Secretary of the
Interior, is hereby authorized and directed to make the necessary
details of troops to prevent trespassers or intruders from entering
the park for the purpose of destroying the game or objects of
curiosity therein, or for any other purpose prohibited by law, and to
remove such persons from the park if found therein....
_Approved, March 3, 1883._
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ADMISSION OF THE STATE OF WYOMING.
Sec. 2. ... _Provided_, That nothing in this act contained shall
repeal or affect any act of Congress relating to the Yellowstone
National Park, or the reservation of the park as now defined, or as
may be hereafter defined or extended, or the power of the United
States over it; and nothing contained in this act shall interfere with
the right and ownership of the United States in said park and
reservation as it now is or may hereafter be defined or extended by
law: but exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, shall be
exercised by the United States, which shall have exclusive control and
jurisdiction over the same; but nothing in this proviso contained
shall be construed to prevent the service within said park of civil
and criminal process lawfully issued by the authority of said state;
and the said state shall not be entitled to select indemnity school
lands for the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections that may be in said
park reservation, as the same is now defined or may be hereafter
defined....
_Approved, July 10, 1890._
THE NATIONAL PARK PROTECTIVE ACT.
An Act to protect the birds and animals in Yellowstone National
Park, and to punish crimes in said park, and for other purposes.
_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled_, That the Yellowstone
National Park, as its boundaries now are defined, or as they may be
hereafter defined or extended, shall be under the sole and exclusive
jurisdiction of the United States; and that all the laws applicable to
places under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States
shall have force and effect in said park; provided, however, that
nothing in this Act shall be construed to forbid the service in the
park of any civil or criminal process of any court having jurisdiction
in the States of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. All fugitives from
justice taking refuge in said park shall be subject to the same laws
as refugees from justice found in the State of Wyoming.
Sec. 2. That said park, for all the purposes of this Act, shall
constitute a part of the United States judicial district of Wyoming
and the District and Circuit Courts of the United States in and for
said district shall have jurisdiction of all offenses committed within
said park.
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