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act, west of the one hundredth meridian it shall be expressed that there is 

 reserv'ed from the lands in said patent described a right of wav thereon for 

 ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States. * * * 

 Approved August 30, 1890. (26 Stat., 371.) 



AN ACT to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, * =h * * * * 



Sec. 16. That townsite entries may be made by incorporated towns and cities 

 on the mineral lands of the United States, but no title shall be acquired by such 

 towns or cities to any vein of gold, silver, cinnabar, copper, or lead, or to any 

 valid mining claim or possession held under existing law. When mineral veins 

 are possessed within the limits of an incorporated town or city, and such pos- 

 session is recognized by local authority or by the laws of the United States, the 

 title to town lots shall be subject to such recognized possession and the necessary 

 use thereof and when entry has been made or patent issued for such townsites 

 to such incorporated town or city, the possessor of such mineral vein may enter 

 and receive patent for such mineral vein, and the surface ground appertaining 

 thereto: Provided, That no entry shall be made by such mineral-vein claimant 

 for surface ground where the owner or occupier of the surface ground shall have 

 had possession of the same before the inception of the title of the mineral-vein 

 applicant. 



Sec. I 7. That reservoir sites located or selected and to be located and selected 

 under the provisions of "An act making appropriations for sundrv civil expenses 

 of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred 

 and eighty-nine, and for other purposes," and amendments thereto, shall be 

 restricted to and shall contain only so much land as is actually necessary for the 

 construction and maintenance of reservoirs, excluding so far as practicable lands 

 occupied by actual settlers at the date of the location of said reservoirs, and that 

 the provisions of "An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of 

 the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and 

 ninety-one, and for other purposes," which reads as follows, viz: "No person 

 who shall after the passage of this act enter upon any of the public lands with a 

 view to occupation, entry, or settlement under any of the land laws shall be per- 

 mitted to acquire title to more than three hundred and twenty acres in the 

 aggregate under all said laws," shall be construed to include in the maximum 

 amount of lands the title to which is permitted to be acquired by one person 

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