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[CITE: 16USC559a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 559a. Reward for information leading to arrest and 
        conviction for violating laws and regulations
        
    The Secretary of Agriculture may pay rewards from appropriations 
available for the protection and management of the national forests, 
under such regulations as he may prescribe, for information leading to 
the arrest and conviction for violation of the laws and regulations 
relating to fires in or near national forests, or for the unlawful 
taking of, or injury to, Government property.

(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, Sec. 201, 58 Stat. 736.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as a part of the Department of Agriculture 
Organic Act of 1944.
