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(H) To clear and keep clear National Forest lands along the right 

 of way for such width and in such manner as Forest officers may 

 direct. 



(I) To dispose to the satisfaction of the Forest officers of all 

 brush, refuse, or unused timber on National Forest lands resulting 

 from the construction, maintenance, and operation of its lines under 

 the grant. 



( J) To do everything reasonable within the power of the grantee, 

 both independently and on request of the Forest officers, to prevent 

 and suppress fires on or near the lands occupied. 



(K) To pay the full value as fixed by the district forester for all 

 timber cut. injured, or destroyed on National Forest lands in the con- 

 struction, maintenance, and operation of the lines under grant. 



(L) To indemnify the United States against any liability for dam- 

 ages to life or property arising from the occupancy or use of Na- 

 tional Forest lands by the grantee. 



(M) To sell power to the United States when requested at as low 

 a rate as is given to any other purchaser for a like use at the same 

 time and under similar conditions, if the grantee can furnish the 

 same to the United States without diminishing the quantity of power 

 sold before such request to any other customer by a binding contract 

 of sale: Provided, That nothing in this clause shall be construed to 

 require the grantee to increase permanent works or install additional 

 generating machinery. 



(N) To abide by such reasonable regulation of the service ren- 

 dered and to be rendered by the grantee, whether in respect to the 

 furnishing or transmitting of power or to the transmitting of com- 

 munications by telephone or telegraph, and of rates of payment 

 therefor, as may from time to time be prescribed by the State or any 

 duly constituted agency of the State in which the service is rendered. 



(O) That the lines to be constructed, maintained, and operated 

 under the grant shall not be owned, leased, trusteed, possessed, or con- 

 trolled by any device or in any manner, so that they form part of or 

 in any way effect any combination in the form of an unlawful trust ; 

 or form the subject of any unlawful contract or conspiracy to limit 

 the output of electric energy; or are in unlawful restraint of trade 

 with foreign nations, or between two or more States, or within any 

 one State, in the generation, sale, or distribution of electric energy 

 or in the transmission of communications by telephone or telegraph. 



(P) That in respect to the regulation by any competent public 

 authority of the service to be rendered by the grantee or of the price 

 to be charged therefor, and in respect to any purchase or taking over 

 of the works or business of the grantee, or any part thereof, by the 

 United States or by any State within which the works are situated or 

 business carried on, or by any municipal corporation of such State, 

 no value whatsoever shall at any time be assigned to or claimed for 

 the right of way granted, nor shall such right of way or grant ever 

 be estimated or considered as property upon which the grantee shall 

 be entitled to earn or receive any return, income, price, or compensa- 

 tion whatsoever. 



Reg. L-26. The grantee shall not assign or transfer to any other 

 person or corporation whatsoever the right of way granted, except 

 with the approval in writing first obtained from the Secretary of 



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