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to the extent of the ground occupied by such canals, ditches, 

 flumes, tunnels, reservoirs, or other water conduits or water 

 plants, or electrical or other works permitted hereunder, 

 and not to exceed fifty feet on 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, tele- 

 graph, and telephone lines and poles, by any citizen, asso- 

 ciation, or corporation of the United States, where it is in- 

 tended by such to exercise the use permitted hereunder of 

 any one or more of the purposes herein named : Provided, 

 That such permits shall be allowed within or through any 

 of said parks or any forest, military, Indian, or other reser- 

 vation only upon the approval of the chief officer of the 

 Department under whose supervision such park or reserva- 

 tion falls and upon a finding by him that the same is not 

 incompatible with the public interest: Provided further, 

 That all permits given hereunder for telegraph and tele- 

 phone purposes shall be subject to the provisions of title 

 sixty-five of the [423] Revised Statutes of the United 

 States, and amendments thereto, regulating rights of way 

 for telegraph companies over the public domain: And pro- 

 vided further. That any permission given by the Secretary 

 of the Interior under the provisions of this act may be re- 

 voked 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. 



P.y section 1 of the act approved February 1, 1905 (33 Stats., 

 828), it is provided that 



The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall, 

 from and after the passage of this act, execute or cause to 

 be credited all lair* affcctinc/ public lands heretofore or 

 hereafter resrrred under the prftrisions of section twenty- 

 four of the act entitled "An act to repeal the timber-culture 

 laws, and for other purposes, approved March third, eight- 

 een hundred and ninety-one, and acts supplemental to and 

 amendatory thereof, after such lands have been so reserved, 

 excepting such laws as affect the surveying, prospecting, lo- 

 cating, appropriating, entering, relinquishing, reconveying, 

 certifying, or patenting of any such lands." 



Section 5 of the same act is as follows : 



That all money received from the sale of any products or 

 the use of any land or resources of said forest reserves shall 

 be covered into the Treasury of the United States, and for 

 a period of five years from the passage of this act shall con- 

 stitute a special fund, available until expended as the Secre- 



