166 THE USE BOOK APPENDIX. 



UINTA FOREST RESERVE. 



ACT OF MARCH 3, 1905 (33 STAT., 1070). 



That before the opening of the Uintah Indian Reservation the 

 President is hereby authorized to set apart and 



President to pro- reserve as an addition to the Uintah Forest 

 claim add-on to Hie R egervej subject to the laws, rules, and regula- 

 serve. tions governing forest reserves, and subject to 



the mineral rights granted by the act of Con- 

 gress of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, such 

 portion of the lands within the Uintah Indian Reservation as he 

 considers necessary, and he may also set apart and reserve any 

 reservoir site or other lands necessary to conserve and protect the 

 water supply for the Indians or for general agricultural develop- 

 ment, and may confirm such rights to water thereon as have 

 already accrued: Provided, That the proceeds from any timber on 

 such addition as may with safety be sold prior to June thirtieth, 

 nineteen hundred and twenty, shall be paid to said Indians in 

 accordance with the provisions of the act opening the reservation. 



Rights and Privileges Within Forest Reserves. 



CONTRACTS NONASSItiJiABLE. 



REVISED STATUTES, SECTION S73" 7 . 



No contract or order, or any interest therein, shall be trans- 

 ferred by the party to whom such contract or order is given to any 

 other party, and any such transfer shall cause the annulment of the 

 contract or order transferred, so far as the United States are con- 

 cerned. All rights of action, however, for any breach of such 

 contract by the contracting parties, are reserved to the United 

 States. 



RAILROADS. 



ACT OF MARCH 3, 1875 (18 STAT., 482). 



The right of way through the public lands of the United States 



is hereby granted to any railroad company 



Right of way for duly organized under the' laws of any State or 



thVoughpubiifiand^. Territory, except the District of Columbia, or 



by the Congress of the United States, which 



shall have filed with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its 



articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization under 



the same, to the extent of one hundred feet on 



( f each side of the central line of said road; also 



the right to take, from the public lands ad- 



