12 MISC. PUBLICATION 135, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
of the State wherein such national forests are situated, or under the 
laws of the United States and the rules and regulations established 
thereunder. 
Segregation of agricultural lands. 
Act August 10, 1912 (37 Stat. 287) ; Sec. 512, Title 16, U. S. C. 
That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed and required 
to select, classify, and segregate, as soon as practicable, all lands 
within the boundaries of national forests that may be opened to settle- 
ment and entry under the homestead laws applicable to the national 
forests, and the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby appro- 
priated for the purposes aforesaid. 
Game refuges. 
Act August 11, 1916 (39 Stat. 476): Sec. 683, Title 16, U. S. C. 
The President of the United States is authorized to designate such 
areas on any lands purchased by the United States under the pro- 
visions of sections 513 to 519 and 521 of this title [the Weeks Act], as 
should, in his opinion, be set aside for the protection of game ani- 
mals, birds, or fish. Whoever shall hunt, catch, trap, willfully dis- 
turb or kill any kind of game animals, game or nongame birds, or 
fish, or take the eggs of any such birds on lands set aside, or in or on 
the waters thereof, except under such general rules and regulations as 
the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time describe, shall be 
pace a more than $500 or imprisoned not more than six months, 
or both. 
Rights of way. 
Transmission, telephone, and telegraph lines. Act of March 4, 1911 (36 Stat. 
153): Sec. pZs, itletG “el. : (G. 
That the head of the department having jurisdiction over the lands 
be, and he hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regu- 
lations to be fixed by him, to grant an easement for rights of way, 
for a period not exceeding fifty years from the date of the issuance of 
such grant, over, across, and upon the public lands, national forests, 
and reservations of the United States for electrical poles and lines for 
the transmission and distribution of electrical power, and for poles 
and lines for telephone and telegraph purposes, to the extent of 
twenty feet on each side of the center line of such electrical, telephone 
and telegraph lines and poles, to any citizen, association, or corpora- 
tion of the United States, where it is intended by such to exercise the 
right of way herein granted for any one or more of the purposes 
herein named: Provided, That such right of way shall be allowed 
within or through any national park, national forest, military, 
Indian, or any other reservation only upon the approval of the chief 
officer of the department under whose supervision or control such 
reservation falls, and upon a finding by him that the same is not in- 
compatible with the public interest: Provided, That all or any part 
of such right of way may be forfeited and annulled by declaration of 
the head of the department having jurisdiction over the lands for 
nonuse for a period of two years or for abandonment. 
