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poses of a public nature ; and said rights of way may be used for pur- 

 poses of water transportation, for domestic purposes, or for the de- 

 velopment of power, as subsidiary to the main purpose of irrigation. 



EIGHTS OF WAY FOR POWER PURPOSES. 



Act of May 14, 1896 (29 Stat., 120), amending act of June 21, 1895 (28 



Stat, 635). 



Sec. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, author- 

 ized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him, to 

 permit the use of right of way to the extent of twenty-five feet, to- 

 gether with the use of necessary ground, not exceeding forty acres, 

 upon the public lands and the forest reservations of the United 

 States, by any citizen or association of citizens of the United States 

 for the purposes of generating, manufacturing, or distributing elec- 

 tric power. 



Power permits. 



Act of February 15, 1901 (31 Stat., 790). 



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

 powered, under general regulations to be fixed by him, to permit the 

 use of rights of way through the public 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 generation and distribution of electrical 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 or 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 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 corporation 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 shall be allowed within or through any of said 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 further, That 

 all permits given hereunder for telegraph and telephone purposes 

 shall be subject to the provision of title sixty-five of the Revised 

 Statutes of the United States, and amendments thereto, regulating 

 rights of way for telegraph companies over the public domain : And 

 provided further, That any permission given by the Secretary of the 

 Interior under the provisions of this act may be revoked 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, reser- 

 vation, or park. 



