148 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



rights herein granted shall be forfeited as to any such uncompleted 

 section of said road. 



Act Mnrch 3, 1875, c. 152, s. 4, 18 Stat. 483. 



This section is ji mended by act June 2G, 190G, c. 35.50, and act Feb- 

 ruary 25, 1909, c. 191, set forth below. 



Reserved lands excepted from act. 



Sec. 5. That this act shall not apply to any lands within the 

 limits of any military, park, or Indian reservation, or other lands 

 specially reserved from sale, unless such right of way shall be pro- 

 vided for by treaty-stipulation or by act of Congress heretofore 

 passed. 



Act March 3, 1875, c. 152, s. 5, IS Stat. 483. 

 Right to alter, amend, or repeal act, reserved. 



Sec. 6. That Congress hereby reserves the right at any time to 

 alter, amend, or repeal this act, or any part thereof. 



Act March 3, 1875, c. 152, s. 6, 18 Stat. 483. 



ACT JUNE 26, 1906, c. 3550. An act to declare and enforce the forfeiture pro- 

 vided by section four of the act of Congress approved March thii'd, eighteen 

 hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act granting to i-ailroads the right 

 of way through the public lands of the United States." (34 Stat. 482.) 



Forfeiture of rights granted to railroads where road or section thereof has not 

 been constructed in five years after location. 



That each and everj- grant of right of way and station grounds 

 heretofore made to any railroad corporation under the Act of Con- 

 gress approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, 

 entitled '"An Act granting to railroads the right of way through the 

 public lands of the United States," where such railroad has not been 

 constructed and the period of five years next following the location of 

 said road, or any section thereof, has now expiree!, shall be, and 

 hereby is, declared forfeited to the United States, to the extent of any 

 portion of such located line now remaining unconstructcd, and the 

 United States hereby resumes the full title to the lands covered 

 thereby freed and discharged from such easement, and the forfeiture 

 hereby declared shall, without need of further assurance or con- 

 veyance, inure to the benefit of any owner or owners of land hereto- 

 fore conveyed by the United States subject to any such grant of 

 right of way or station grounds: Provided. That in any case under 

 this Act wliere constiuetion of llie railroad is progressing in good 

 faith at the date of the approval of this Act the forfeiture declared 

 in this Act shall not take effect as to such line of railroad. 



Act .Tune 2fi. 1900. c. S.-i.TO. 34 Stat. 4S2. 



Act March 3. 1875. c. 152. s. 4, mentioned in this act. is sot forth above. 

 Subsoquont provisions similar to those of this act are contained in act 

 Febni.iry 25. 1909, c. 191. set forth below. 



ACT FEBRUARY 25, 1909, c. 191. An act to declare and enforce the forfeiture 

 l)rovi(i('d by section four of the act of Congress approved March third, 

 eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An Jict granting to railroads 

 the riubt of way through the public lands of the Uniteil States." (35 

 Stat. 047.) 



Forfeiture of rights granted to railroads where road or section thereof has not 

 been constructed in five years after location. 



That each and every grant of right of way and station grounds 

 heretofore made to any railroad corporation under the Act of Con- 



