82 LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE NATIONAL FOKESTS. 



the privilege herein granted shall not be construed to interfere with 

 the control of water for irrigation and other purposes under au- 

 thority of the respective States or Territories. 



Maps to be filed and approved. 



Sec. 19. That any canal or ditch company desiring to secure the 

 benefits of this act shall, within twelve months after the location of 

 ten miles of its canal, if the same be upon surveyed lands, and if upon 

 unsurveyed lands, within twelve months after the survey thereof by 

 the United States, file with the register of the land office for the dis- 

 trict where such land is located a map of its canal or ditch and reser- 

 voir ; and upon the approval thereof by the Secretary of the Interior 

 the same shall be noted upon the plats in said office, and thereafter 

 all such lands over which such rights of way shall pass shall be dis- 

 posed of subject to such right of way. Whenever any person or cor- 

 poration, in the construction of any canal, ditch, or reservoir, injures 

 or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the 

 party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party 

 injured for such injury or damage. 



Rights granted subject to forfeiture. 



Sec. 20. That the provisions of this act shall apply to all canals, 

 ditches, or reservoirs, heretofore or hereafter constructed, whether 

 constructed by corporations, individuals, or association of indi- 

 viduals, on the filing of the certificates and maps herein provided for. 

 If such ditch, canal, or reservoir, has been or shall be constructed by 

 an individual or association of individuals, it shall be sufficient for 

 such individual or association of individuals to file with the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior, and with the register of the land office where 

 said land is located, a map of the line of such canal, ditch, or reser- 

 voir, as in case of a corporation, with the name of the individual 

 owner or owners thereof, together with the articles of association, if 

 any there be. Plats heretofore filed shall have the benefits of this 

 act from the date of their filing, as though filed under it : Provided, 

 That if any section of said canal or ditch shall not be completed 

 within five years after the location of said section, the rights herein 

 granted shall be forfeited as to any uncompleted section of said 

 canal, ditch, or reservoir, to the extent that the same is not completed 

 at the date of the forfeiture. 



Limitation of use. 



Sec. 21. That nothing in this act shall authorize such canal or ditch 

 company to occupy such right of way except for the purpose of said 

 canal or ditch, and then only so far as may be necessary for the con- 

 struction, maintenance, and care of said canal or ditch. [See pro- 

 vision next below] 



Additional and subsidiary uses. 



Act of May 11, 1898 (30 Stat., 404). 



Sec. 2. That the rights of way for ditches, canals, or reservoirs 

 heretofore or hereafter approved under the provisions of sections 

 eighteen, nineteen, twenty, and twenty-one of the Act entitled "An 

 Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes," approved 

 March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, may be used for pur- 



