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 '1‘u·m: xxxrr.—'1`HE PUBLIC LANDS.—Crr. 11. 453 of right, title, or claim, which has been forged, altered, counterfeited, or falsely dated, knowing the same to be forged, altered, counterfeited, or falsely dated, shall be punishable as prescribed in section twenty-four hundred and seventy-one. [see ss am, aus.] Src. 2+74. The tract of land in the Territories of Montana and Wy- P“i’u° P"k oming, lying near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River and described xkmxaéétj as fol ows, to wit, commencing at the junction of Gardiner’s River, with the Yciicwmne the Yellowstone River, and running east to the meridian passin ten River. miles to the eastward of the most eastern point of Yellowstone flake; ” fl y;,,, `@i,._ thence south along said meridian to the parallel of latitude passing ten 24, s.1,v.’17, p. s2. miles south of the most southern point of Yellowstone Lake; thence west along said parallel to the meridian ssing fifteen miles west of the most western point of Madison Lake; thhnce north along said meridian to the latitude of the junction of the Yellowstone and Gardiner’s Rivers; thence east to the place of beginning, is reserved and withdrawn from settlement, occupancy. or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or· pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people; and all persons who locate, or settle upon, or occupiv any part of the land thus set apart as a public park, except as provide in the following section, shall be considered tr·espassers and removed therefrom. Sec. 2+75. Such public park shall be under the exclusive control of seem, of the the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon as practi- Intqriortdliaveexcable, to make and publish such regulations as he may deem necessary 3l““'°k€°“*"°l °{ or proper for the care and management of the same. Such re ulations ofi:;L,,§;°;°v° sha l provide for the preservation, from injury or spoliation, of ail timber, —— ¢+- mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders, within the park, and Ib‘d‘·"‘ 2* P‘33· their· retention in their natural condition. The Secretary may, in his discretion, grant leases for building purposes for terms not exceeding ten years, of small parcels of round, at such places in the park as ma require the erection of buiTdings for the accommodation of visitors; all of the proceeds of such leases, and all other revenues that ma bederived from any source connected with the park, to be expended, under his direction in the management of the same, and the construction of roads and bridle-paths therein. He shall plrovide against the wanton destruction of the fish and game found wit in the park, and against their capture or destruction for the purposes of mer·c andise or profit. He shall also cause all persons tres ssrng upon the same to be removed therefrom, and generally is authbrize to take all such measures as may be necessary or proper to fully carry out the objects and purposes of this section. Sec. 2476. All navigable rivers, within the ter·ritory occupied by the Navigable rivers public lands, shall remain and be deemed public highways; and, in all Within public cases where the op osite banks of any streams not navigable belong to t°;’° P“bl‘° different persons, the stream and the bed thereof shall become common -E8-Kay' 1796-c W both- 29, s. 9, v.,1 Ab I 3 Mar., 1803, c. 27, s. 17, v. 2; Sm. 2177. The right of way for the construction of highways over h'_R¥hf of way for public lands, not reserved for public uses, is hereby grante. p5§,ic‘j':n?é;_ °"€" 26 July, 1866, c. 262, s. 8, v. 14, p. 253. Sec. 2478. The Commissioner of the General Land—Oflice, under the ]’qwer of `Comdirection of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to enforce and g§“g°£ carry into execution, by a propriate regulations, every part of the pro- this Title. visions of this Title not otiherwise specrally provided for·. Sec. 2479. To enable the several States (but not rncluding the States Grunt of swsmos Of Kansas, Nebraska, and Nevadag to construct the necessary levees and {gigs Qg’°"£;_;in drains, to reclaim the swam an overtlowed lands there1n—the whole Sum ,0 nid in of the swamp and overilowedp lands, made unfit thereby for cultivation, construction ot Kndgemaining unsold gn oré igger the twenjcydeighithmday o€0S;ptemberi levees, dw. . . eighteen hundre an ty, are gran _ an onge severa 28* t_,1850,c_84’ States regpectively, in which said lands are situated: Provwled, however, ¤¤.1,·ijv.e, p. seo,