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approval of the Department of the Government having jurisdiction of 

 such reservation, and the privilege herein granted shall not be con- 

 strued to interfere with the control of water for irrigation and other 

 purposes under authority of the respective States or Territories. 



SEC. 19. That any canal or ditch company desiring to secure the Maps to be filed 

 benefits of this act shall, within twelve months after the location of ten ^ a PP roved - 

 miles of its canal, if the same be upon surveyed lands, and if upon 

 unsurveyed lands, within twelve months after the survey thereof by 

 the United States, tile with the register of the land office for the district 

 where such land is located a map of its canal or ditch and reservoir; 

 and upon the approval thereof by the Secretary of the Interior the same 

 shall be noted upon the plats in said office, and thereafter all such lands 

 over which such rights of way shall pass shall be disposed of subject to 

 such right of way. Whenever any person or corporation, in the con- Compensation 

 struction of any canal, ditch, or reservoir, injures or damages the pos- ^ate^righte Pn 

 session of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such 

 injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or 

 damage. 



SEC. 20. That the provisions of this act shall apply to all canals. Individuals and 

 ditches, or reservoirs, heretofore or hereafter constructed, whether con- ^ 

 structed by corporations, individuals, or association of individuals, on 

 the filing of the certificatesand maps herein provided for. If such ditch, 

 canal, or reservoir, has been or shall be constructed by an individual 

 or association of individuals, it shall be sufficient for such individual 

 or association of individuals to file with the Secretary of the Interior, 

 and with the register of the land office where said land is located, a map 

 of the line of such canal, ditch, or reservoir, as in case of a corporation, 

 with the name of the individual owner or owners thereof, together with 

 the articles of association, if any there be. Plats heretofore filed shall 

 have the benefits of this act from the date of their filing, as though filed 

 under it: Provided, That if any section of said canal or ditch shall not b Rights forfeited 

 be completed within five years after the location of said section, the tion o?works! P 

 rights herein granted shall be forfeited as to any uncompleted section 

 of said canal, ditch, or reservoir, to the extent that the same is not 

 completed at the date of the forfeiture. 



SEC. 21. That nothing in this act shall authorize such canal or ditch ^j^^^^ 011 of 

 company to occupy such right of way except for the purpose of said 

 canal or ditch, and then only so far as may be necessary for the con- 

 struction, maintenance, and care of said canal or ditch. [See pro- 

 vision next below.] 



Act May 11, 1898 (30 Stat., 404). 



SEC. 2. That the rights of way for ditehes, canals, or reservoirs here- Additional and 

 tofore or hereafter approved under the provisions of sections eighteen, 8utei<li r y u 868 - 

 nineteen, twenty, and twenty-one of the Act entitled ''An Act to 

 repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," approved March 

 third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, may be used for purposes of 

 a public nature; and said rights of way may be used for purposes of 

 water transportation, for domestic purposes, or for the development of 

 power, as subsidiary to the main purpose of irrigation. 



Act of May 14, 1896 (29 Stat., 120). 



SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, author- Permissive 

 ized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him, to rignts f wa y- 

 permit the use of right of way to the extent of twenty-five feet, together Electric power, 

 with the use of necessary ground, not exceeding forty acres, upon the 

 public lands and the forest reservations of the United States, by any 

 citizen or association of citizens of the United States for the purposes 

 of generating, manufacturing, or distributing electric power. 



Act of February 15, 1901 (31 Stat., 790), relating to rights of way through certain parks, 

 reservations, and other public lands. 



The Secretary of the Interior * * * is authorized and em- Permissive 

 powered, under general regulations to be fixed by him, to permit the ng 

 use of rights of way through the public lands, forest and other reserva- 

 tions of the United States and the Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant 



