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sion line or lines under permit, in such form as the Secretary may prescribe 

 or approve, and to render annually such reports of the power business as the 

 Secretary may direct: Provided, however, That if the laws of the State in 

 which the power business or any part thereof is transacted require periodical 

 reports from public-utility corporations under a uniform system of accounting, 

 copies of such reports so made will be accepted as fulfilling the requirements 

 of this article. 



ART. 9. To protect all Government and other telephone, telegraph, and power 

 transmission lines at the crossing of and nt all places of proximity to the 

 permittee's transmission line or lines in a workmanlike manner, according to 

 the usual standards of safety for construction, operation, and maintenance in 

 such cases, and to maintain the transmission line or lines in such a manner as 

 not to menace life or property. 



ART. 10. To clear and keep clear National Forest lands along the transmission 

 line or lines for such width and in such a manner as the Forest officers may 

 direct. 



ART. 11. To dispose to the satisfaction of the forest officers of all brush, refuse, 

 or unusued timber on National Forest lands resulting from the construction, 

 maintenance, and operation of the transmission line or lines under permit. 



ART. 12. To do everything reasonably within the power of the permittee, both 

 independently and on request of the forest officers, to prevent and suppress fires 

 on or near the lands occupied. 



ART. 13. To pay the full value as fixed by the district forester for all timber 

 cut, injured, or destroyed on National Forest lands in the construction, mainte- 

 nance, and operation of the transmission line or lines under permit. 



ART. 14. To idemnify the United States against any liability for damage to 

 life or property arising from the occupancy or use of National Forest lands by 

 the permittee. 



ART. 15. To sell power to the United States when requested at as low a rate 

 as is given to any other purchaser for a like use at the same time and under 

 similar conditions, if the permittee can furnish the same to the United States 

 without diminishing the quantity of power sold before such request to any other 

 customer by a binding contract of sale: Provided, That nothing in this clause 

 shall be construed to require the permittee to increase permanent works or 

 to install additional generating machinery. 



ART. 16. To abide by such reasonable regulation of the service rendered and 

 to be rendered by the permittee in the furnishing or transmitting of power and 

 of rates of payment therefor as may from time to time be prescribed by the 

 State or any duly constituted agency of the State in which the service is 

 rendered. 



ART. 17. That the line or lines to be constructed, maintained, and operated 

 under the permit shall not be owned, leased, trusteed, possessed, or controlled 

 by any device or in any manner so that they form part of or in any way effect 

 any combination in the form of an unlawful trust, or form the subject of any 

 unlawful contract or conspiracy to limit the output of electric energy, or are 

 in unlawful restraint of trade with foreign nations, or between two or more 

 States, or within any one State, in % the generation, sale, or distribution of 

 electric energy. 



ART. 18. That in respect to the regulation by any competent public authority 

 of the service to be rendered by the permittee or of the price to be charged 

 therefor, and in respect to any purchase or taking over of the works or busi- 

 ness of the permittee, or any part thereof, by the United States or by any 

 State within which the works are situated or business carried on, or by any 

 municipal corporation of such State, no value whatsoever shall at any time 

 be assigned to or claimed for the permit applied for, or for the occupancy and 

 use of National Forest lands granted thereunder, nor shall such permit or such 

 occupancy and use ever be estimated or considered as property upon which the 

 permittee shall be entitled to earn or receive any return, income, or compensa- 

 tion whatsoever. 



[n witness whereof, the permittee has executed this stipulation on the 



day of , 191__ 





[SEAL.] By 



Attest : 



Secretary. 



