FOREST SERVICE. 159 



the public, and shall allow to the Forest Service of the United States 

 Department of AfrricuKuro and to the ofHcers of the Intorinr Do- 

 partuient, for official business only, the free use of any telepliones. 

 teletrraphs, or electric railroads it may construct and maintain within 

 the forest reserves or on the public lands, together with the right to 

 connect with any such telephone lines private telephone wires for 

 the exclusive use of said Forest Service or of the Interior Depart- 

 ment: A7id provided fxirthei\ That the Forest Service may, within 

 forest reserves, protect, use, and administer said land and resources 

 within said rights of way under forest-reserve laws and regulations, 

 but in so doing must not interfere with the full enjoyments of the 

 right of way by the city of Los Angeles: And provided further^ That 

 in the event that the Secretary of the Interior shall abandon the 

 project known as the Owens Kiver project for the irrigation of lands 

 in Inyo County, California, under the Act of June seventeenth, nine- 

 teen hundred and two, the city of Los Angeles, in said State, is to 

 pay to the Secretary of the Interior, for the account of the reclama- 

 tion fund established by said Act, the amount expended for prelimi- 

 nary surveys, examinations, and river measurements, not exceeding 

 fourteen thousand dollars, and in consideration of said payment 

 the said city of Los Angeles is to have the benefit of the use of the 

 maps and field notes resulting from said surveys, examinations, and 

 river measurements, and the preference right to acquire at any time 

 within three years from the approval of this Act any lands now 

 reserved by the L^'^nited States under the terms of said reclamation 

 Act in connection with said project, necessary for storage or right 

 of way purposes, upon filing with the register and receiver of the 

 land office in the land district where any such lands sought to be 

 acquired are situated a map showing the lands desired to be acquired, 

 and upon the approval of said map or maps by the Secretary of the 

 Interior and upon the payment of one dollar and twenty-five cents 

 per acre to the receiver of said land office title to said land so reserved 

 and filed on shall vest in said city of Los Angeles, and such title 

 shall be and remain in said city only for the purposes aforesaid, and 

 shall revert to the L^nited States in the event of the abandonment 

 thereof for the purposes aforesaid : Provided^ however^ That the 

 terms of this Act shall not apply to any lands upon Bishop Creek 

 or its branches in said county of Inyo. 



Act June 30. 1906, c. 3926, s. 4, 34 Stat. 802. 



Lands traversed by rights of way granted to be subject to easements; forfeiture 

 of rights granted if construction has not begun within five years, or upon 

 cessation for three years. 



Sec. 5. That all lands over which the rights of way mentioned in 

 this Act shall pass shall be disposed of subject to such easements: 

 Provided, however. That if construction of said waterworks shall not 

 have been begun in good faith within five years from the date of 

 approval of this Act, or if after such period of five years there shall 

 be a cessation of such construction for a period of three consecutive 

 years, then all rights hereunder shall be forfeited to the United States. 



Act June 30, 1906, c. 3926, g. 5, 34 Stat. 803. 

 Sale or letting right to water restricted. 



Sec. 6. That the city of Los Angeles is prohibited froni ever selling 

 or letting to any corporation or individual, except a municipality, the 



