236 THE USE BOOK. 



ELECTRICITY AND WATER. 



ACT or FEBRUARY 15, 1901 (31 STAT., 790). 



The Secretary of the Interior * * * is authorized and 

 empowered, under general regulations to be 

 Licenses to be fl xe( i Dy him, to permit the use of rights of 

 ttoulFoirartB. 11 " wa ^ through the public lands, forest and 

 other reservations of the United States, and 

 the Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant national parks, [791] 

 California, for electrical plants, poles, and lines for the genera- 

 tion and distribution of electrical power, and for telephone and 

 telegraph purposes, and for canals, ditches, pipes and pipe lines, 

 flumes, tunnels, or other water conduits, and for water plants, 

 dams, and reservoirs used to promote irrigation or mining or 

 quarrying, or the manufacturing or cutting of timber and lum- 

 ber, or the supplying of water for domestic, public, or any other 

 beneficial uses to the extent of the ground occupied by such 

 canals, ditches, flumes, tunnels, reservoirs, or other water con- 

 duits or water plants, or electrical or other works permitted 

 hereunder, and not to exceed fifty feet on 

 r each side of the marginal limits thereof, or 



not to exceed fifty feet on each side of the 

 center line of such pipes and pipe lines, electrical, telegraph, 

 and telephone lines and poles, by any citizen, association, or 

 corporation of the United States, where it is intended by such 

 to exercise the use permitted hereunder or any one or more of 

 the purposes herein named : Provided, That 

 Licenses must not such permits shall be allowed within or 

 thVTubTlnte'ret' through any of said parks or any forest, mill- 

 tary, Indian, or other reservation only upon 

 the approval of the chief officer of the Department under whose 

 supervision such park or reservation falls and upon a finding 

 by him that the same is not incompatible with the public in- 

 terest : Provided further, That all permits 

 phone? ' " S iven hereunder for telegraph and telephone 



purposes shall be subject to the provisions 

 of title sixty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States, 

 and amendments thereto, regulating rights of way for telegraph 

 companies over the public domain : And pro- 

 Licenses revocable v id e d further, That any permission given by 

 STett. F D eaS<? " tlie Secretary of the Interior under the pro- 

 visions of this act may be revoked by him or 

 his successor in his discretion, and shall not be held to confer 

 any right, or easement, or interest in, to, or over any public 

 land, reservation, or park. 



