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for the purpose of generating, manufacturing, or distributing electric 

 power. 



Act JamiJiry 21. ISUH. c. 37, s. 2. 28 Stat. 03r., :is aiiiemled bv act 

 -May 14, 1SS)0, c. 179, 29 Stat. 120. 



The Secretai-j' of Agriculture shall execute all laws affecting public 

 lands reserved as forest reservations except such laws as affect the sur- 

 veying, prospecting, locating, entering, etc., and patenting of such lands, 

 by the provisions of act February 1, 1905, c. 288, s. 1, .set forth on 

 J). SG. ante. 



ACT FEBRUARY 15, 1901, c. 372. An act relating to rights of way through 

 certain parks, reservations, and other public lauds. (31 Stat. 790.) 



Rights of way through forest reservations, etc.. for electrical plants, poles, and 

 lines for the generation and distribution of electrical power and for tele- 

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

 flues, tunnels, etc.; and for water plants, dams, and reservoirs. 



That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and 

 empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him. to permit 

 the use of rights of way through the public lands, forest and other 

 reservations of the United States, and the Yosemite, Sequoia, and 

 General Grant national parks, California, for electrical plants, poles, 

 and lines for the generation and distribution of electrical power, and 

 for telephone and telegi'aph 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 quarr^^ing. or the manufacturing or cutting of timber or lumber, 

 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 w^ater 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, 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 such permits shall 

 be allowed within or through any of said parks or any forest, mili- 

 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 interest: Prorided furtJitv. That all 

 permits given hereunder for telegraph and telephone purposes .shall 

 be subject to the provision 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 prorided 

 further^ That any permission given by the Secretary of the Interior 

 under the provisions of this act may be revoked by him or his suc- 

 cessor in his discretion, and shall not be held to confer any right, 

 or easement, or interc-t in, to, or over any public land, reservation, 

 or park. 



Act February 15, 1901, c. 372, 31 Stat. 790. 



The Secretary of Agriculture shall execute all laws affecting public 

 lands reserved as forest reservations except such laws as affect the 

 surveving, prospecting, locating, entering, etc., and patenting of such 

 lands' by the provisions of act February 1, 1905, c. 288, s. 1, set forth 

 on p. 86, ante. 



