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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.- CHS. 150, 151-MAR. 6, 1942 Such commissioner shall have power, upon sworn information, to Judicial powers. issue process in the name of the United States for the arrest of any person charged with a violation of the rules and regulations, or with a violation of any of the provisions of this Act prescribed for the government of said park and for the protection of the animals, birds, and fish in said park, and to try the person so charged, and, if found guilty, to impose punishment and to adjudge the forfeiture pre- scribed. In all cases of conviction an appeal shall lie from the judg- Appais. ment of said commissioner to the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan; and the United States district court in the aforementioned district shall prescribe the rules of pro- cedure and practice for said commissioner in the trial of cases and for appeal to the said United States district court. SEC. 6 . That the park commissioner provided for in this Act shall caPriedre n other also have power to issue process as hereinbefore provided for the arrest of any person charged with the commission within said park of any criminal offense not covered by the provisions of section 3 of this Act, to hear the evidence introduced, and, if he is of the opinion that probable cause is shown for holding the person so charged for trial, shall commit such person for further appropriate action, and certify a transcript of the record of his proceedings and the testimony in such case to the district court, which court shall have jurisdiction of the case: Provided, That the said commissioner may grant bail in Pr"'o- all cases according to the laws of the United States. SEC. 7 . That the park commissioner provided for in this Act shall be Pa of commis- paid an annual salary, as appropriated for by Congress. SEC. 8 . That all fees, costs, and expenses arising in cases under this ,peFnosts and e Act and properly chargeable to the United States shall be certified, approved, and paid as are like fees, costs, and expenses in the courts of the United States. SEC. 9. That all fees, fines, and costs and expenses imposed and ,Depoit of collec- collected shall be deposited by the commissioner, or by the marshal of the United States collecting the same, with the clerk of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. SEa. 10. That the Secretary of the Interior shall notify in writing Ofjurticfaeptan the Governor of the State of Michigan of the passage and approval of this Act, and of the fact that the United States assumes police jurisdiction over said park as specified in said act of the State of Michigan. Approved, March 6, 1942. [CHAPTER 151] AN ACT To accept the cession by the State of Washington of exclusive jurisdiction over the lands embraced within the Olympic National Park, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of the act of the Legislature of the State of Washington, approved March 8, 1941 (Chapter 51 of the Laws of 1941 of the State of Washington), ceding to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over and within all the territory included on March 8, 1941, in the tract of land in the State of Washington, set aside for the purposes of a national park and known as the Olympic National Park, are hereby accepted. Subject to the reservations made by the State in the act of cession, the United States hereby assumes sole and exclusive juris- dicti9 n over such territory. March 6 1942 [H. R. 4336] [Public Law 479] Olympic National Park, Wash. Cession of jurisdic- tion to U. S. 135