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sonable rate per mile as the Secretary may fix at the beginning of each such 

 decade. 



ART. 6. On demand of the Secretary to install at such places and to maintain 

 in good operating condition in such manner as shall be approved by the Secre- 

 tary, free of all expense to the United States, accurate meters or other devices 

 approved by the Secretary, adequate for the determination of the amount of 

 power delivered over the transmission line or lines under grant, or any part 

 thereof ; to keep accurate and sufficient records of the foregoing determinations 

 to the satisfaction of the Secretary; and to make a return during January of 

 each year, under oath, of such records of measurements for the year ending on 

 December 31 preceding, made by or in the possession of the grantee, as may be 

 required by the Secretary. 



ABT. 7. That the books and records of the grantee, in so far as they contain 



information concerning the line or 



lines under permit, or the business conducted in connection therewith, shall be 

 open at all times to the inspection and examination of the Secretary or other 

 officer or agent of the United States duly authorized to make such inspection 

 and examination. 



ART. 8. On demand of the Secretary to maintain a system of accounting of 

 the entire power business conducted in connection with the power-transmission 

 line or lines under grant, in such form as the Secretary may prescribe or 

 approve, and to render annually such reports of the power business as the Sec- 

 retary may direct: Provided, however, That if the laws of the State in which 

 the power business or any part thereof is transacted require periodical reports 

 from public-utility corporations under a uniform system of accounting, copies 

 of such reports so made will be accepted as fulfilling the requirements of this 

 article. 



ART. 9. To protect all Government and other telephone, telegraph, and power- 

 transmission lines at the crossing of and at all places of proximity to the 

 grantee's line or lines in a work- 

 manlike manner, according to the usual standards of safety for construction, 



operation, and maintenance in such cases, and to maintain the 



line or lines in such a manner as not to menace 



life or property. 



ART. 10. To clear and keep clear National Forest lands along the 



_ line or lines for such width and in such a 



manner as the forest officers may direct. 



ART. 11. 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 the 



line or lines under grant. 



ART. 12. To do everything reasonably 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. 



ART. 13. To pay the full value as fixed by the district forester for all timber 

 cut, injured, or destroyed on National Forest lands in the construction, main- 

 tenance, and operation of the line or 



lines under grant. 



ART. 14. To indemnify the United States against any liability for damage to 

 life or property arising from the occupancy or use of National Forest lands by 

 the grantee. 



ART. 15. 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 to 

 install additional generating machinery. 



ART. 16. To abide by such reasonable regulation or the service rendered and 

 to be rendered by the grantee, whether in respect to the furnishing or trans- 

 mitting of power or to the transmitting of communications by telephone or 

 telegraph, and of rates of payment therefor, as may from time to time be pre- 

 scribed by the State or any duly constituted agency of the State in which the 

 service is rendered. 



ART. 17. That the Une O r lines to 



constructed, maintained, and operated under grant will not be owned, leased 

 trusteed, possessed, or controlled by any device or in any manner so that they 



