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tions, for the convenience of people visiting such springs, with 

 reference to spaces and locations, for the erection of tents or tem- 

 porary dwelling houses to be erected or constructed for the use of 

 fcose "visiting such springs for health or pleasure. And the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe 

 YidtTf!!r ISMtI< " tne terms an d duration and the compensation 

 to be paid for the privileges granted under the 

 provisions of this act. 



2. All funds arising from the privileges granted hereunder 

 l fund f c / shall be covered into the Treasury of the United 

 of forest re- States as a special fund, to be expended in the 

 serves. care O f public forest reservations. 



ELECTRICITY A>D WATER. 



ACT OF FEBRUARY 15, 1901 (31 STAT., 790). 



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

 powered, under general regulations to be fixed 

 Licenses to he by him, to permit the use of rights of way 

 irninted within forest through t h e pu bli c lands, forest and other reser- 

 vations of the United States, and the Yosemite, 

 Sequoia, and General Grant national parks, California, for electrical 

 plants, poles, and lines for the ^eueration and distribution of elec- 

 trical 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, and reservoirs used to promote 

 irrigation or mining or quarrying, or the manufacturing or cutting 

 of timber and 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, reservoirs, or 

 other water conduits or water plants, or electrical or other works 

 permitted hereunder, and not to exceed fifty 

 Width of right of 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 corpora- 

 tion 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: Provided, That such permits 

 SuJ shall be allowed within or through any of said 

 interest. parks or any forest, military, Indian, or other 

 reservation only upon the approval of the chief 

 officer of the Department under whose supervision such park or 

 reservation falls and upon a finding by him that the same is not 

 incompatible with the public interest: Provided 

 egraph and t - f urt ] ier ^ T h a t all permits given hereunder for 

 telegraph and telephone purposes shall be sub- 

 to the provisions of title sixty-five of the Revised Statutes of 



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