FOREST SERVICE. 145 



REV. ST. SEC. 5268. 



Acceptance of obligation to be filed. 



Sec. 52(58. Before any telegraph company shall exercise any of the 

 powers or privileires conferred by law such coin]iany shall file their 

 Avritten acceptance with (he Postmaster-General of the restrictions 

 and obligations required by law. 



ACT MARCH 4, 1911, c. 238. (36 Stat. 1235.) 



Rights of way through national forests, etc., for electrical poles and lines for 

 transmission and distribution of electrical power, and for telephone and 

 telegraph purposes. 



That the head of the department having jurisdiction over the 

 lands be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general 

 regulations to be fixed by him, to grant an easement for rights of 

 "Way, for a period not exceeding fifty j^ears from the date of the is- 

 suance of such grant, over, across, and upon the public lands, national 

 forests, and reservations of the United States for electrical poles and 

 lines for the transmission and distribution of electrical power, and 

 for poles and lines for telephone and telegraph purpo.ses, to the ex- 

 tent of twenty feet on each side of the center line of such electrical, 

 telephone and telegraph lines and poles, to any citizen, association, 

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

 exercise the right of way herein granted for any one or more of the 

 purposes herein named : Provided, That siich right of way shall be 

 allowed within or through any national park, national forest, mili- 

 tary, Indian, or any other reservation only upon the approval of the 

 chief officer of the department under whose supervision or control 

 such reservation falls, and upon a finding by him that the same is 

 not incompatible with the public interest: ProHded. That all or any 

 part of such right of way may be forfeited and annulled by declara- 

 tion of the head of the department having jurisdiction over the lands 

 for nonuse for a period of two years or for abandonment. 



That any citizen, association, or corporation of the United States 

 to whom there has heretofore been issued a permit for any of the 

 purposes specified herein under any existing law, may obtain the 

 ijenefit of this Act ui^on the same terms and conditions as shall be 

 required of citizens, associations, or corporations hereafter making 

 application under the provisions of this statute. 



Act March 4, 1911, c. 238, 36 Stat. 1253. 



These are provisions of the iigriculturnl appropriation act for the 

 fiscnl year 1912, cited above. 



The' Secretary of Agriculture shnll execute .m11 lnws afifectiug public 

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

 veying, prosi>ecting, locating entering, etc., and patenting of such lands, 

 by the provisions of act Fel)ruary 1. 1905, c. 288, s. 1, set forth on p. 86, 

 ante. 



ACT FEBRUARY 28. 1899, c. 221. An act to authorize the Secretary of the 

 Interior to rent or lease certain portions of forest reserve. (30 Stat. 90S.) 



Leases of grounds within forest reserves for hotels, sanitariums, etc. 



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

 under such rules and' regulations as he from time to time may make, to 

 lent or lease to responsible persons or corporations applying therefor 



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