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the Interior to utilize the hot water now running to 

 waste on the permanent reservation at Hot Springs, 

 Arkansas, and for other purposes. 



1888— Act of October 19, 1888 (25 Stat. L., 609)— An Act 

 Granting the right of way for the construction of a 

 railroad through the Hot Springs Reservation, State 

 of Arkansas. 



Leave granted the Mountain View Railway Co., of Hot Springs, to 

 build line of railway across reservation. Conditions prescribed. 

 Reservation by government of right to amend, add to, alter or re- 

 peal. 



1892 — Act of June 22, 1892 {2^ Stat. L., 58) — An Act To 

 include lot numbered 53 in block 89, at Hot Springs, 

 Arkansas, in the public reservation at that place. 



1892 — Act of July 14, 1892 (27 Stat. L., 174) — ^An Act To 

 grant lot numbered' one in block numbered 72 of the 

 Hot Springs Reservation to the school district of 

 the city of Hot Springs for school purposes. 



1892 — Act of August 5, 1892 (27 Stat. L., 373) — ^An Act 

 Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of 

 the Ciovernment for the fiscal year ending June 

 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and for 

 other purposes. 



Provision made for improvement of reservation and to make same 

 available as a reservoir to retain flood waters of Hot Springs Creek. 



1893 — Act of December 21, 1893 (28 Stat. L., 21) — An Act 

 Granting the right of way for the construction of a 

 railroad and other improvements over and on the 

 West Mountain of the Hot Springs Reservation, 

 Hot Springs, Arkansas. 



Grants right of way to George W. Baxter et al as well as hotel 

 privilege and use of five acres on reservation for a park. Rental 



