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forest reserves may construct or permit to be constructed in, 

 through, or across any land covered by said permit roads or 

 trails, public or otherwise, or other means of transportation, 

 not inconsistent with the enjoyment of the permit hereby 

 granted : Provided further, That the Edison Electric Company 

 shall, under penalty of immediate forfeiture of the permit 



hereby granted, when requested to do so, as- 

 in fighting fire? SS sist the forest ffi cers in fighting fire, and 



shall furnish any men under its employ neces- 

 sary for that purpose, and shall otherwise assist to the extent 

 of its power in protecting the forest reserves and maintaining 

 good order upon them. 



SEC. 10. That Congress shall have power at any time to amend, 

 modify, or repeal this act. 



HOMESTEADS IN YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL FOREST. 



ACT OF MARCH 15, 1906 (34 STAT., 62.) 



The general provisions of the homestead laws of the United 

 States be, and the same are hereby, extended 

 Homestead laws ex- to and over the surveyed lands in townships 

 sh?ps in YeHowstone forty-eight, forty-nine, and fifty, and ranges 

 National Forest. one hundred and five and one hundred and 

 six, within the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, 

 and the- said lands shall be subject to entry ninety days after 

 the passage of this act, within which ninety-day period the 

 Secretary of Agriculture may set aside such portions of said 

 lands as were not occupied by a bona fide settler January first, 

 nineteen hundred and six, not to exceed in the aggregate one 

 [63] hundred and sixty acres, as may be necessary for forest- 

 reserve administrative purposes, which lands so set aside shall 

 not be subject to settlement entry or location during the life of 

 the forest reserve : Provided, That the commutation clause of 

 the homestead laws shall not apply to the said lands, and any 

 bona fide settler who made settlement on said lands prior to 

 January first, nineteen hundred and six, and who had prior to 

 that time lost or exercised his homestead right, may enter and 

 perfect title to the lands settled upon by him as though his 

 homestead right had not been lost or exercised, upon the pay- 

 ment of the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre for 

 the land included in his entry at the time of making final proof. 



