THE USE BOOK. 237 



EDISOX ELECTRIC COMPANY. 



ACT OF MAY 1, 1906 (34 STAT., 163). 



Upon the conditions herein named the Edison Electric Com- 

 pany, a corporation existing under the laws of 

 Bights of way the state of Wyoming, and engaged in gen- 

 Eiwtric Company. 11 ^rating and distributing electric energy for 

 use by municipalities and the public generally 

 for lighting and power purposes, is hereby granted a permit, the 

 duration of which shall be fixed by the Sec- 

 Duration of permit, retary of the Interior immediately after the 

 passage of this act, a revocable during the term 

 fixed by said Secretary only in the manner and for the causes 

 hereinafter specified, to oc'.-upy and use lands, to be designated 

 in the manner hereinafter specified, within the San Bernardino, 

 Sierra, and San Gabriel forest reserves, in the State of Califor- 

 nia, for canals, conduit lines, pole lines, power houses, diverting 

 dams, necessary grounds to be submerged above the diverting 

 dams, and necessary buildings and structures foi the water- 

 power plants hereinafter described, for the generation, trans- 

 mission, and distribution of electrical power, namely : 



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 [166] Permits for the construction of each of the foregoing 

 power plants having been heretofore granted by the Interior or 

 Agricultural Departments. 



SEC. 2. That the ground covered by the permit hereby granted 

 shall include fifty feet on each side of the 

 Width of right of center of said canals or conduit lines and on 

 way- each side of said pole lines, or so much 



thereof as may be actually necessary for their 

 installation, maintenance, and use, and the ground actually oc- 

 cupied by and necessary for power houses, diverting dams, and 

 necessary buildings and structures to be used in connection 

 with the operation and maintenance of said water-power plants, 

 together with fifty feet on each side of the marginal limits of 

 all of such buildings and structures, or such portion of said 

 fifty feet as may be actually necessary for the efficient opera- 

 tion and maintenance of said power plants, dams, and other 

 structures ; also the right to submerge and flood at the intake of 

 each of said power plants within said forest reserves, not to ex- 

 ceed thirty acres in each case, such area only as may be actually 

 necessary to divert the water into the several canal or conduit 

 lines for said several power plants. 



The term was fixed under this provision at forty years. 



