158 LAWS ArPLIC-OLE TO DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTURE. 



to the date of the filing of said map or maps -vrith the register of the 

 United States Land office as provided herein. 



Act June 30, 1906. c. 3926, s. 2, 34 Stat. 801. 



Effect of rights of way granted on existing homestead, mining, etc., claims, and 

 prior rights of way. 



Sec. 3. That the rights of way hereby granted shall not be effective 

 over any land upon which homestead, mining, or other existing 

 valid claims shall have been filed or made until the city of Los 

 Angeles shall have procured proper relinquishments of all .such 

 entries and claims, or acquired title by due process of law and just 

 compensation paid to said entry men or claimants and caused proper 

 evidence of such fact to be filed with the Secretary of the Interior: 

 Provided^ however^ That this Act shall not apply to any lands em- 

 braced in rights of way heretofore approved under anj' Act of Con- 

 gress, nor affect the adjudication of any pending applications for 

 rights of wa}' by the owner or owners of existing water rights, and 

 that no private right, title, interest, or claim of any person, persons, 

 or corporation, in or to any of the lands traversed by or embraced 

 in said right of way shall be interfered with or abridged, except 

 with the consent of the owner or owners or claimant or claimants 

 thereof, or by due process of law, and just compensation paid to such 

 owner or claimant. 



Act June 30. 1906. o. 3920, s. 3, 34 Stat. 801. 



Rights granted subject to forest reserve regulations; limitation of use of 

 timber; construction, etc., of bridges and fences; removal of debris, etc.; 

 free use of wagon roads; free use to Forest Service of telephones, tele- 

 graphs, and electric railways; administration of rights of way by Forest 

 Service. 



Sec. 4. That the city of Los Angeles shall conform to all regula- 

 tions adopted and prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture gov- 

 erning the forest reserves, and shall not take, cut, or destroy any 

 timber within the forest reserves, except such as may be actually 

 necessary to remove to construct its power plants and structures, 

 poles and flumes, storage dams and reservoirs, and it shall pay to the 

 Forest Service of the Department of Agi'iculture the full value of 

 all timber and wood cut, used, or destroyed on any of the rights of 

 way and lands within forest reserves hereby granted: Proinded fnr- 

 fhei\ That the city shall construct and maintain in good repair 

 bridges or other practicable crossings over its rights of way within 

 the forest reserves when and where directed in writing by the For- 

 e.'^ter of the United States Department of Agriculture, and elsewhere 

 r-n ])ublir land-^ along Ihe line of said Avorks as required l)y the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior: and said grantee shall, as said waterworks are 

 completed, if directed by the Secretary of the Interior, construct 

 and maintain along each side of said right of way a lawful fence as 

 defined by the laws of the State of California, with such lanes or 

 crossings for domestic animals as the aforesaid officers shall require: 

 Provided iurthcr^ That the city of Los Angeles shall clear its rights 

 of way within forest re.^ierves of any debris or inflammable material 

 as directed by the Forester of the United States Department of Agri- 

 cidture: Provided fiirfher, That the said city shall allow any wagon 

 road which it may construct within forest reserves to be freely used 

 by forest officers and the officer of the Interior Department and by 



