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the United States, and amendments thereto, regulating rights of 

 way for telegraph companies over the public 

 and conSr nTeSe* domain: And proiided further, That any pefc 

 ment. mission -given by the Secretary of the Intei^Pi 



under the provisions of this act may be re- 

 voked 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. 



EDISON ELECTRIC COMPAM. 



ACT OF MAY 1, 1906. 



Upon the conditions herein named the Edison Electric Com- 

 pany, a corporation existing under the laws of 

 Rights of way the State of Wyoming, and engaged in generat- 

 Ele a ctri e c Company. 80 * in g an ^ distributing electric energy for use by 

 municipalities and the public generally for 

 lighting and power purposes, is hereby granted a permit, the 

 duration of which shall be fixed by the Secre- 

 Duration of permit, tary of the Interior immediately after the pas- 

 sage of this act, revocable during the term 

 fixed by said Secretary only in the manner and for the causes 

 hereinafter specified, to occupy and use lands, to be designated in 

 the manner hereinafter specified, within the San Bernardino, 

 Sierra, and San Gabriel forest reserves, in the State of California, 

 for canals, conduit lines, pole lines, power houses, diverting dams, 

 necessary grounds to be submerged above the diverting dams, and 

 necessary buildings and structures for the water-power plants 

 hereinafter described, for the generation, transmission, and dis- 

 tribution of electrical power, namely: 



* * * * * 



Permits for the construction of each of the foregoing power 

 plants having been heretofore granted by the Interior or Agricul- 

 tural Departments. 



SEC. 2. That the ground covered by the permit hereby granted 

 shall include fifty feet on each side of the cen- 



Width of right of ter of said canals or conduit lines and on each I 

 way. side of said pole lines, or so much thereof as 



may be actually necessary for their installatio||J 

 maintenance, and use, and the ground actually occupied by ami 

 necessary for power houses, diverting dams, and necessary build- 

 ings and structures to be used in connection with the operation and 

 maintenance of said water-power plants, together with fifty feet on 

 each side of the marginal limits of all of such buildings and strucrl 

 tures, or such portion of said fifty feet as may be actually necessdBI 

 for the efficient operation and maintenance of said power plants/! 



