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title: "16 U.S.C. § 602"
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# 16 U.S.C. § 602 - Seizure of timber cut

## Text

If any timber cut on the public lands shall be exported from the Territories of the United States, it shall be liable to seizure by United States authority wherever found.

(Apr. 30, 1878, ch. 76, § 2, 20 Stat. 46.)