, 1884-03-29
- LAWS OF WYOMING.
Passed by the
EIGHTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
CHAPTER Io3.
Yellowstone National Park.

AN ACT to render operative m encetual the laws of the Territory of Wyoming
within that portion OF the Yellowstone National Park lying within said Ter
Htory, and to protect and preserve the timber game, FISH and natural objects
United states therein.
BE il enacted By Tie Council and House of Representatives Of the
Territory Of Wyoming;
SECTION 1. That all that portion of the Yellowstone
National Park, as the boundaries and limits thereof are
now defined and fixed, or may hereafter be fixed and
defined by the laws of the United States of America,
lying and being situate within the Territory of Wyoming,
shall be and the same is hereby made a part of the county
of Uinta in the said Territory.
SEC. q. That all of the said Yellowstone National
Park lying within this Territory, and which, by the first
section of this act, is made a part of the county of Uinta,
is hereby erected and made a precinct of the said county,
and the board of county commissioners of said county
shall fix one or more voting places within the said pre-
cnct at least thirty days before the time fixed for holding
the next regular election for county officers in said
county.
SEC. 8. That Immediately after the passage of this
act the governor shall appoint, by and with the advice
and consent of the Council, if the Council be in session,
otherwise the governor shall appoint, two justices of the
peace and two c%onstables for the said precinct of the
Yellowstone National Park in said county of Uinta, who
shall be considered as officers of said county, and who
shall respectively hold their offices until the first Monday
in January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-tive, and until their SUCCESSORS are
elected or appointed and qualified according to this act
PrOcded, That the governor may remove for good cause
any of the said officers elected or appointed, and shall
have power to fill any vacancy in any of the said offices
caused by such removal, or by the death, resignation,
failure to act, or any vacancy arising from any cause for
the u%nexpired term of such officer or officers.
SEC. 4. That at the next general election of county
officers to be holden within the said county of Uinta,
there shall be elected two Justices of the peace and two
constables from the qualified electors of said precinct, to
hold their respective Offices for the term Of two years
from the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and
eighty-ive, and until their successors are elected or
appointed and qualified according to this act Prouded,
That any citizen of the United States over the age of
twenty-one years, who shall have resided in said precinct
at least thirty days prior to said election, shall be entitled
to vote for the said precinct officers, but for other officers
voted for at said election the qualifications of electors in
said precinct shall be as are now or as may be hereafter
fixed by the laws of this Territory.
SEC < That oil laws of thp rarritnrV of Wvpr,inr
are hereby made operative over that portion of the said
Yellowstone National Park lying within this Territory,
criminal and civil Jurisdiction MS is now Or may hereafter
be conferred by law upon justices of the peace, and all
rules of practice and proceedings in the courts of the
said justices of the peace i'll said precinct shall be the
same as are now prescribed by law, but no change of
venue shall be granted in any case i'll this precinct; and
the constitutes OF said precinct shall perform such duties
and exercise such powers as are now or may hereafter be
performed and exercised by constables or sheriffs under
the laws of this Territory.
SEC. 6. That any offense or crime defined by the laws
of the United States of America, or by the rules and
regulations of the secretary of the interior thereof for
the government of the Yellowstone National Park, or
for the protection of the game, fish, timber, curiosities,
natural objects or other property therein from spoilation,
DETACHMENT, damage or destruction, or for any other pur-
poses, or for the punishment of any crime or offense
therein, shall be in force III said park the same as the laws
of this Territory, and any violation thereof shall be held
and deemed to be a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof the offender shall be punished by a fine of not
exceeding one hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment in
the county Jail for n term not exceeding six months
Prouided, That this section will not apply to any portion
of said park not within the Territory of Wyoming.
SEC. 7. That it shall be unlawful for any person,
whether resident or visitor, to deface, injure or remove
any part, portion or particle of the natural curiosihes or
objects of interest, or anything whatever within the
Yellowstone National Park, whether tree, rock, stone,
s%hrubbery, earth, guyser formation, grass or anything
whatever, except that it may be permissible to use timber
or any other thing not objects of curiosity or of interest
or adding to the scenic attractions of the said Park, for
the necessary purposes of fuel or house-building or any
domestic, useful or necessary purpose not prohibited
by the laws of the United States or the rules and regula.
tions of the secretary of the interior, and any person so
offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on
conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding
one hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment in the county
Jail not exceeding six months.
SIC. 8. That the killing, wounding or capturing, at
any lime, of any buffalo, bison, moose, elk, deer, noun
tain sheep, Rocky Mountain goat, antelope, beaver, otter,
martin, fisher, grouse, prairie chicken, pheasant, fool
hen, partridge, quail, wild goose, duck, eagle, magpie,
swan, heron, sparrow, robin, meadow lark, thrush, gold
finch, flicker or yellow-hammer, black bird, oriole, jay,
snow bird or any of the small birds commonly known
rs singing birds, is prohibited within that part of said
park lying within the Territory of Wyoming; nor shall
any fish be taken out of the waters of said portion of the
park by means of seines, nets, traps, or by the use OF
drugs or any explosive substances or compounds, or in
any other way than by hook and line. Any person vio-
lating the provisions of this section shall be deemed
guilty of n misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined for each offense not less than twenty nor
more than one hundred dollars, or by Imprisonment for
not more than six months, or by both such fine and
Imprisonment. Possession of the dead bodies, or any
part, thereof, of any of the animals or birds hereinbefore
mentioned, shall be prnd tdcje evidence that the person
or persons having the same are guilty of violating this
act. Any person or persons, or stage, express, or rail
road company, receiving for transportation any of the
animals, birds or fish named herein, knowing, or having
reasonable cause to believe that such animals, birds or
fish were killed or captured in violation OF this act, shall