62 STAT.] 80TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 645 --JUNE 25, 1948 757 of Congress for the protection, preservation, or restoration of game and other wild birds and animals, any officer or employee of the National Park Service, any officer or employee of, or assigned to duty in, the field service of the Division of Grazing of the Department of the Interior, any employee of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture, or any officer or employee of the Indian field service of the United States, while engaged in the performance of his official duties, or on account of the performance of his official duties, shall be punished as provided under sections 1111 and 1112 of this title. Ante, p. 7 5 . § 1115. MISCONDUCT OR NEGLECT OF SHIP OFFICERS Every captain, engineer, pilot, or other person employed on any steamboat or vessel, by whose misconduct, negligence, or inattention to his duties on such vessel the life of any person is destroyed, and every owner, charterer, inspector, or other public officer, through whose fraud, neglect, connivance, misconduct, or violation of law the life of any person is destroyed, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or impris- oned not more than ten years, or both. When the owner or charterer of any steamboat or vessel is a corpo- ration, any executive officer of such corporation, for the time being actually charged with the control and management of the operation, equipment, or navigation of such steamboat or vessel, who has know- ingly and willfully caused or allowed such fraud, neglect, connivance, misconduct, or violation of law, by which the life of any person is destroyed, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. CHAPTEB 53.-INDIANS Sec. 1151. Indian country defined. 1152. Laws governing. 1153. Offenses committed within Indian country. 1154. Intoxicants dispensed in Indian country. 1155. Intoxicants dispensed on school site. 1156. Intoxicants possessed unlawfully. 1157. Livestock sold or removed. 115S. Counterfeiting Indian Arts and Crafts Board trade-mark. 1159. Misrepresentation in sale of products. 1160. Property damaged in committing offense. § 1151. INDIAN COUNTRY DEFINED The term "Indian country", as used in this chapter, means (a) all land within the limits of any Indian reservation under the jurisdiction of the United States Government, notwithstanding the issuance of any patent, and, including rights-of-way running through the reservation, (b) all dependent Indian communities within the borders of the United States whether within the original or subsequently acquired territory thereof, and whether within or without the limits of a state, and (c) all Indian allotments, the Indian titles to which have not been extin- guished, including rights-of-way running through the same. § 1152. LAWS GOVERNING Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the general laws of the United States as to the punishment of offenses committed in any place within the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, except the District of Columbia, shall extend to the Indian country. This section shall not extend to offenses committed by one Indian against the person or property of another Indian, nor to any Indian committing any offense in the Indian country who has been punished by the local law of the tribe, or to any case where, by treaty stipula- tions, the exclusive jurisdiction over such offenses is or may be secured to the Indian tribes respectively.
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