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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 264-APR. 29, 1942 259 obligations incurred, or crimes committed in such State outside of said park; and saving further to each such State the right to tax persons and corporations, their franchises and property on the lands included in such ceded area; and saving also to the persons residing in said park now, or hereafter, the right to vote at all elections held within the county in which they reside; and saving further to each such State the right to tax sales in such ceded area of gasoline and other motor-vehicle fuels and oil for use in motor vehicles. Nothing in this section shall be construed as a consent by the United States to the taxation by the States of such sales for the exclusive use of the United States. SEC. 2. That the portion of said park located in the State of North Designation as parts Carolina shall constitute a part of the United States judicial district ofjudicialdistricts. for the western district of North Carolina and the portion of said park located in the State of Tennessee shall constitute a part of the United States judicial district for the eastern district of Tennessee, and the district court of the United States in and for each such district shall have jurisdiction over all offenses committed within the ceded area of the said park in such district. All fugitives from Fugitives from jus- justice taking refuge in said park shall be subject to the same laws as tice refugees from justice found in either the State of North Carolina or Tennessee. SEC. 3. That all hunting or the killing, wounding, or capturing at rHta and fishng any time of any wild bird or animal, except dangerous animals when it is necessary to prevent them from destroying human lives or inflicting personal injury, is prohibited within the limits of said park, nor shall any fish be taken out of any of the waters of the said park, in any other way than by hook and line, and then only at such seasons and at such times and in such manner as may be directed by the Sec- retary of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior shall make and tiOR and regula- publish such general rules and regulations as he may deem necessary and proper for the management and care of the park and for the protection of the property therein, especially for the preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonderful objects within said park, and for the protection of the animals and birds in the park from capture or destruction, and to prevent their being frightened or driven from the said park; and he shall make rules and regulations governing the taking of fish front the streams or lakes in the said park. Possession within said park of the Evidene of viola- dead bodies or any part thereof of any wild bird or animal shall be prima facie evidence that the person or persons having the same are guilty of violating this Act. Any person or persons, stage or express Penaltie company, railway or other transportation company, who knows or has reason to believe that such wild birds, fish, or animals were taken or killed contrary to the provisions of this Act or the rules and regula- tions promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior, and who receives for transportation the dead bodies or any part thereof of the wild birds, fish, or animals so taken or killed, or who shall violate any of the other provisions of this Act, or the rules and regulations, with reference to the management and care of the said park, or for the protection of the property therein for the preservation from injury or spoliation of timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or won- derful objects within said park, or for the protection of the animals, birds, and fish in said park, or who shall within said park commit any damage, injury, or spoliation to or upon any building, fence, sign, hedge, gate, guidepost, tree, wood, underwood, timber, garden, crops, vegetables, plants, land, springs, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or other matter or thing growing or being thereon, or situated therein,

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