well packed down. Care should be taken that no lighted match, cigar, or cigarette is dropped in any grass, twigs, leaves, or tree mold. 4. Camps. In selecting a camping ground its location should be sufficiently distant from the water source, stream, or spring as not to be objectionable to those who may wish to camp in the vicinity and use the same water source at the same time. Blankets, clothing, hammocks, or any other article liable to frighten teams must not be hung near the road.

Camp grounds must be kept in sanitary and neat condition at all times, and upon their abandonment all kitchen refuse, cast-off wearing apparel, tin cans, paper boxes, etc., must be deposited in a pit provided for the purpose. When camps are made at unusual places where pits may not be provided, all refuse must be hidden where it will not be offensive, to the end that the site will be suitable for use by future campers.

5. Bicycles. The greatest care must be exercised by persons using bicycles. On meeting a team the rider must stop and stand at side of road between the bicycle and the team-the outer side of the road if on a grade or curb. In passing a team from the rear, the rider should learn from the driver if his horses are liable to frighten, in which case the driver should halt and the rider dismount and walk past, keeping between the bicycle and the team.

6. Fishing. All fish less than 8 inches in length should at once be returned to the water with the least damage possible to the fish. Fish that are to be retained must be at once killed by a blow on the back of the head or by thrusting a knife or other sharp instrument into the head. No person shall catch more than 20 fish in one day.

7. Dogs and cats. Cats are not permitted on the park lands, and dogs only to those persons passing through the park to the territory beyond, in which instances they must be kept tied while crossing the park. This rule does not apply to trained dogs used by Government employees in extermination of predatory wild animals.

8. Stages. Stages carrying passengers through the General Grant National Park shall stop at the main tourist camp in order that passengers wishing accommodations will not be compelled to walk to the crossroads, one-fourth mile distant,

9. Dead animals. All domestic animals that may die on the park lands at any tourist camp, or along any of the public thoroughfares, must be immediately removed to a point not nearer than one-fourth mile from such camp or thoroughfare, and there be buried at least 2 feet beneath the ground by the owner or person having charge of such animal.

10. Driving on roads in park. (a) Drivers of vehicles of any description drawn by animals, when overtaken by other vehicles traveling at a faster rate of speed, shall, if requested to do so, turn out and give the latter free and unobstructed passageway.

(b) Vehicles in passing each other must each give full half of the roadway. This applies to freight outfits as well as any other, but not to automobiles or motor cycles otherwise provided for.

(c) Freight, baggage, and heavy camping outfits will take the outer side of the road when being passed by passenger vehicles in either direction.

(e) Mounted men on meeting a passenger team on a grade will halt on the outer side until the team passes. When approaching a passenger team from the rear warning must be given, and no faster gait will be taken than is necessary to make the passage, and if on a grade the passage will be on the outer side. A passenger team must not be passed on a dangerous grade.

(f) All wagons used in hauling heavy freight over the park roads must have tires not less than 4 inches in width. This order does not apply to express freight hauled in light spring wagons with single teams.

10. Miscellaneous.-Automobiles and motor cycles are not permitted in the park.

No person shall ride or drive faster than a walk over any of the Government bridges within the park. Riding or driving at night, except on the floor of the Yosemite Valley, is forbidden.

Persons with animals using trails must keep therein; leaving the trails for the purpose of making short cuts will not be permitted. Persons are not allowed to bathe near any of the regularly traveled roads in the park without suitable bathing clothes.

It is forbidden to bathe, wash clothes or cooking utensils, or in any other way pollute the waters of the river or creeks above the Sentinel Hotel in Yosemite Valley.

It is forbidden to water stock directly from the river or creeks above the Sentinel Hotel in Yosemite Valley. A bucket or other vessel should be used.

It is forbidden to tie stock within 100 yards of any tent or tent ground. It is forbidden to tie stock so near the river or creeks above the Sentinel Hotel in Yosemite Valley that the stock may enter these streams.

It is forbidden to soil or any way write upon or mutilate any of the signs or structures erected for public convenience.

To take bark from any live sequoia tree on the park lands is forbidden.

Campers and all others, save those holding license from the Secretary of the Interior, are prohibited from hiring their horses, trappings, or vehicles to tourists or visitors in the park.

All complaints by tourists and others as to service, etc., rendered in the reservation should be made to the superintendent in writing before the complainant leaves the park.

11. The penalty for disregard of these instructions is summary ejection from the park.

REGULATIONS OF FEBRUARY 29, 1908, GOVERNING THE IMPOUNDING AND DISPOSITION OF LOOSE LIVE STOCK.

Horses, cattle, or other domestic live stock running at large or being herded or grazed in the Yosemite National Park without authority from the Secretary of the Interior will be taken up and impounded by the superintendent, who will at once give notice thereof to the owner, if known. If the owner is not known, notice of such impounding, giving a description of the animal or animals, with the brands thereon, will be posted in six public places inside the park and in two public places outside the park. Any owner of an animal thus impounded may, at any time before the sale thereof, reclaim the

same upon proving ownership and paying the cost of notice and all expenses incident to the taking up and detention of such animal, including the cost of feeding and caring for the same. If any animal thus impounded shall not be reclaimed within 30 days from notice to the owner or from the date of posting notices it shall be sold at public auction, at such time and place as may be fixed by the superintendent, after 10 days' notice, to be given by posting notices in six public places in the park and two public places outside the park and by mailing to the owner, if known, a copy thereof.

All money received from the sale of such animals and remaining after the payment of all expenses incident to the taking up, impounding, and selling thereof shall be carefully retained by the superintendent in a separate fund for a period of six months, during which time the net proceeds from the sale of any animal may be claimed by and paid to the owner upon the presentation of satisfactory proof of ownership, and if not so claimed within six months from the date of sale such proceeds shall be turned into the Yosemite National Park fund.

The superintendent shall keep a record in which shall be set down a description of all animals impounded, giving the brands found on them, the date and locality of the taking up, the date of all notices and manner in which they were given, the date of sale, the name and address of the purchaser, the amount for which each animal was sold and the cost incurred in connection therewith, and the disposition of the proceeds.

The superintendent will in each instance make every reasonable effort to ascertain the owner of animals impounded and to give actual notice thereof to such owner.

AUTOMOBILE REGULATIONS OF AUGUST 5, 1913.

Pursuant to authority conferred by the act of October 1, 1890 (26 Stat., 650), setting aside certain lands in the State of California as a public park, the following regulations governing the admission of automobiles into the Yosemite National Park are hereby established and made public:

1. Automobiles traveling within the metes and bounds of the Yosemite National Park will be required to secure a permit from the acting superintendent or his representative. Tickets of passage must be obtained at Merced Grove of Big Trees and at Yosemite in Yosemite Valley.

2. Applications for permit must show: (a) Name of owner, (b) license number of machine, (c) name of driver, (d) number of passengers, and (e) be accompanied by a fee of $5 for a single round trip in and out of the park, payable as hereinafter indicated. Tickets of passage must be presented to the acting superintendent or his authorized representative at Merced Grove of Big Trees and at Yosemite in Yosemite Valley. Permittees will not be allowed to do a commercial or transportation business in the park without a special license therefor from the Secretary of the Interior.

3. Until further orders automobiles will be permitted to enter the Yosemite National Park only by way of the Coulterville and Big Oak Flat Road. Automobiles approaching the park by the Big Oak Flat Road will change direction to the west at Crane Flat and take the

Coulterville Road. Automobiles will enter the Yosemite Valley only by way of the Coulterville Road. Automobiles leaving the park will confine themselves to the roads authorized for entrance. In the Yosemite Valley automobiles will confine themselves to the road north of the Merced River. Automobiles are not permitted to use any roads in the park other than those specified, and those only for ingress and egress.

4. Automobiles inward bound.-Cars coming into Yosemite Valley may leave the Merced Grove of Big Trees from 10 a. m. until 1 p. m. on morning schedule. Also from 4 p. m. until 5.30 p. m. on afternoon schedule.

Time and speed restrictions: Automobiles are restricted to an approximate speed of 10 miles per hour on rolling mountain country, to 5 miles per hour on the steep descent to the foot of the Coulterville Road, to 15 miles per hour between the "Old Blacksmith Shop" and Cascade Creek, to 10 miles per hour between Cascade Creek and Pohono Bridge, and to 15 miles per hour between Pohono Bridge and Yosemite Station. No car, however, will be permitted to cover the distance between Merced Grove and Cascade Creek in less than 1 hour and 17 minutes, and between Cascade Creek and Yosemite Station in less than 37 minutes. All cars must arrive at Cascade Creek, if on the morning schedule, not later than 2.17 p. m., and at Yosemite Station not later than 2.54 p. m, passing Pohono Bridge not later than 2.34 p. m. All cars leaving Merced Grove on afternoon schedule must arrive at Cascade Creek not later than 6.47 p. m. and at Yosemite Station not later than 7.24 p. m.

5. Automobiles outward bound.-Cars may leave Yosemite Station going out of the valley between the hours of 6 and 7.30 a. m. every morning, but at no other time during the day. No car will be permitted to cover the distance between Yosemite Station and Cascade Creek in less than 35 minutes, and from there to Merced Grove in less than 1 hour and 16 minutes, making the total minimum time in which to travel from Yosemite Station to Merced Grove 1 hour and 51 minutes, counting 6 a. m. the time set for earliest departure. All cars leaving Yosemite Station must pass Cascade Creek not later