FOREST SERVICE. 157 



ACT JUNE 30. 1906, c. 3926. An act authoriziiijjj and directing the Secretary 

 of the Interior to sell to the city of Los Angeles. California, certain pnblic 

 land.s in California: and si'anlinj; ri;ilits in. over, and Ihron^h the Sierrii 

 Forest Reserve, the Santa I^ailo.ra Forest Keserve. and the San C.abriel 

 Tiuil)er Land Reserve, California, to the ollv of T,<is Anyeles, California 

 (34 Stat. SOI.) 



Rights of way through, and lands in. Sierra Forest Reserve. Santa Barbara 

 Forest Reserve, and San Gabriel Timber Land Reserve for crinals. pipes and 

 pipe lines, flumes, tunnels, and conduits for water-supply plant, and for 

 power and electric plants, poles and lines, and for power houses, dams, 

 reservoirs, etc. 



That there is hereby granted to the city of Los Angeles, California, 

 a municipal corporation of the State of California, all necessary rights 

 of way, not to exceed two hundred and fifty feet in width, over and 

 through the public lands of^ the United States in the counties of 

 Inyo, Kern, and Los Angeles, State of California, and over and 

 through the Sierra and Santa Barbara forest reserves and the San 

 Gabriel Timber Land Reserve, in said State, for the purpose of con- 

 structing, operating, and maintaining canals, ditches, pipes and pipe 

 lines, flumes, tunnels, and conduits for conveying water to the city 

 of Los Angeles, and for the purpose of constructing, operating, and 

 maintaining power and electric plants, poles and lines for the gen- 

 eration and distribution of electric energy, together with such lands 

 as the Secretary of the Interior may deem to be actually necessary 

 for power houses, diverting and storage dams and re.servoirs, and 

 necessary buildings and structures to be used in connection with the 

 construction, operation, and maintainance of said water, i)ower, and 

 electric plants, whenever said city shall have filed, as hereinafter 

 provided, and the same shall have been approved by the Secretary of 

 the Interior, a map or maps showing the boundaries, locations, and 

 extent of said proposed rights of way for the purposes hereinabove 

 set forth. 



Act June 30, 1006. c. 3926. s. 1, 34 Stat. SOL 

 Maps to be filed. 



Sec. 2. That within one year after the passage of this Act the city 

 of Los Angeles shall file with the registers of the United States Land 

 offices in the districts where the lands traversed by said rights of way 

 are located, a map or maps showing the boundaries, locations, and 

 extent of said proposed rights of way, for the piu'poses stated in 

 section one of this Act; but no construction work shall be com- 

 menced on said land until said map or maps have been filed as herein 

 provided and approved by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, 

 hoivever, That any changes of location of said rights of way may be 

 made by said city of Los Angeles, within two years after the filing 

 of said map or maps, by filing such additional map or maj^s as may 

 be necessary to show such changes of location, said additional map 

 or maps to be filed in the .same manner as the original map or maps: 

 and the approval of the Secretary of the Interior of said map or 

 maps showing changes of location of said rights of way shall operate 

 as an abandonment by the city of Los Angeles to the extent of such 

 change or changes, of the rights of way indicated on the oi'iginal 

 maps: And provided fiirt her, That any fights inuring to the city of 

 Los Angeles under this Act shall, on the approval of the map or 

 maps referred to herein by the Secretary of the Interior, relate back 



