166 LAWS APPLICABLE TO DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



house on the northAvest quarter of the southeast quarter of said sec- 

 tion twelve, in the Sierra Forest Reserve- 

 Permits for the construction of each of the foregoing power plants 

 having been heretofore granted by the Interior or Agricultural De- 

 partments. 



Act May 1, 1906, c. 2076, s. 1, 34 Stat. 163. 

 Areas covered by permit granted. 



Sec. 2. That the ground covered b}- the permit hereby granted shall 

 include fifty feet on each side of the center of said canals or conduit 

 lines and on each side of said pole lines, or so much thereof as may 

 be actually necessary for their installation, maintenance, and use, 

 and the ground actual!}^ occupied by and necessary for power houses, 

 diverting dams, and necessary buildings and structures to be used in 

 collection with the operation and maintenance of said water-power 

 plants, together with fifty feet on each side of the marginal limits 

 of all of such buildings and structures, or such portion of said fifty 

 feet as may be actually necessary for the efficient operation and 

 maintenance of said power plants, dams, and other structures; also 

 the right to submerge and flood at the intake of each of said power 

 plants within said forest reserves, not to exceed thirty acres in each 

 case, such area only as may be actually necessary to divert the water 

 into the several canal or conduit lines for said several power plants. 



Act May 1, 1906, c. 2076, s. 2, 34 Stat. 166. 

 Maps to be filed; lands included subject to rights conveyed. 



Sec. 3. That within six months after the passage of this Act the 

 Edison Electric Company shall file with the register of the United 

 States land office for the district where said power plants are located, 

 and with the Forester of the Department of Agriculture, a map and 

 such copies thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, 

 showing separately as to each power ]5lant the ground occupied or 

 proposed to be occupied by such canals or conduit lines, pole lines, 

 power houses, and other buildings and structures used in connection 

 with said electrical power plants. These maps shall show the dimen- 

 sions of each building and structure and each diverting dam, and the 

 areas which it will be necessary to submerge at the point of intake 

 of each power plant and, after the filing of said maps, all lands 

 covered bv this permit as shown on the maps, or to be occupied by 

 stich builciiugs and structures as shown, together with such portion 

 of fifty feet on each side of the marginal limits thereof as may be 

 actually necessary for the operation of the power plants, and such 

 land as may be submerged by the construction and o]ieration of said 

 power ])lants, shall, when disposed of by the Government, he dis- 

 posed of subject to the rights hereby granted unless said rights shall 

 luive terminated or shall have been revoked as herein provided prior 

 lo such dispo.sal. 



Act May 1. 1006. o. 2076, s. 3, 34 Stat. 1G6. 



Forest reserve regulations; limitation of use of timber; payment for timber used. 



Sec. 4. That said company <h:\\\ ron.form to all regulations adopted 

 or prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the 

 Interior governing said forest reserves, or the use or the users 

 thereof, and shall not take, cut, or destrov anv timber within the 



