                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                        CHAPTER 91--PUBLIC LANDS
 
Sec. 1858. Survey marks destroyed or removed

    Whoever willfully destroys, defaces, changes, or removes to another 
place any section corner, quarter-section corner, or meander post, on 
any Government line of survey, or willfully cuts down any witness tree 
or any tree blazed to mark the line of a Government survey, or willfully 
defaces, changes, or removes any monument or bench mark of any 
Government survey, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not 
more than six months, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 789; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 330016(1)(E), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 111 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 57, 35 Stat. 1099).
    Minor changes were made in phraseology.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $250''.
