54 NATIONAL FOKEST MANUAL LAWS. 



Electric power, National Parks, California, for electrical plants, poles, and lines for the 

 telephones & g enera tion an d distribution of electrical power, and for telephone and 

 . telegraph purposes, and for canals, ditches, pipes and pipe lines, 

 flumes, tunnels, or other water conduits, and for water plants, dams, 

 Conveyance of and reservoirs used to promote irrigation or mining or quarrying, or 

 the manufacturing or cutting of timber or lumber, or the supplying of 

 water for domestic, public, or any other beneficial uses to the extent of 

 the ground occupied by such canals, ditches, flumes, tunnels, reser- 

 voirs, or other water conduits or water plants, or electrical or other 

 Width of right WO rks permitted hereunder, and not to exceed fifty feet on each side 

 of the marginal limits thereof, or not to exceed fifty feet on each side of 

 the center line of such pipes and pipe lines, electrical, telegraph, and 

 telephone lines and poles, by any citizen, association, or corporation 

 of the United States, where it is intended by such to exercise the use 

 permitted hereunder or any one or more of the purposes herein named : 

 Permits not Provided, That such permits shall be allowed within or through any of 

 conipatiblewith sa ^ parks or any forest, military, Indian, or other reservation only upon 

 public interest, the approval of the chief officer of the department under whose supervi- 

 sion such park or reservation falls and upon a finding by him that the 

 Telegraph and same is not incompatible with the public interest : Provided further, That 

 ject tosTs Titte a ^ permits given hereunder for telegraph and telephone purposes shall 

 65. be subject to the provision of title sixty-five of the Revised Statutes of 



the United States, and amendments thereto, regulating rights of way 

 ^ Licenses revo- for telegraph companies over the public domain: And provided further, 

 That any permission given by the Secretary of the Interior under the 

 provisions of this act may be revoked by him or his successor in his 

 discretion, and shall not be held to confer any right, or easement, or 

 interest in, to, or over any public land, reservation, or park. 



Forest transfer act of February 1, 1905 (33 Stat., 628). 



Rights of way SEC. 4. That rights of way for the construction and maintenance of 



iSStt^piSrose? dams, reservoirs, water plants, ditches, flumes, pipes, tunnels, and 



etc. ' canals, within and across the forest reserves of the United States are 



hereby granted to citizens and corporations of the United States for 



municipal or mining purposes, and for the purposes of the milling and 



reduction of ores, during the period <of their beneficial use, under such 



rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the 



Interior, and subject to the laws of the State or Territory in which said 



reserves are respectively situated. 



Agricultural appropriation act of March 4, 1911 (36 Stat., 1235). 



Electric trans- That the head of the department having jurisdiction over the lands 

 aes ' be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regu- 



Limited ease- lations to be fixed by him, to grant an easement for rights of way, for 

 ments. a period not exceeding fifty years from the date of the issuance of 



such grant, over, across, and upon the public lands, National Forests, 

 and reservations of the United States for electrical poles and lines 

 for the transmission and distribution of electrical power, and for poles 

 and lines for telephone and telegraph purposes, to the extent of twenty 

 feet on each side of the center line of such electrical, telephone and 

 telegraph lines and poles, to any citizen, association, or corporation 

 of the United States, where it is intended by such to exercise the 

 right of way herein granted for any one or more of the purposes herein 

 named: Provided, That such right of way shall be allowed within or 

 through any national park, National Forest, military, Indian, or any 

 )ns> other reservation only upon the approval of the chief officer of the 

 department under whose supervision or control such reservation falls, 

 and upon a finding by him that the same is not incompatible with the 



Forfeiture and public interest: Provided, That all or any part of such right of way 

 may be forfeited and annulled by declaration of the head of the depart- 

 ment having jurisdiction over the lands for nonuse for a period of two 

 years or for abandonment. 



Permittees may That any citizen, association, or corporation of the United States to 

 hereunder. 1 g S whom there has heretofore been issued a permit for any of the purposes 

 specified herein under any existing law, may obtain the benefit of this 

 act upon the same terms and conditions as shall be required of citizens, 

 associations, or corporations hereafter making application under the 

 provisions of this statute. 



