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be considered trespassers and removed therefrom: Provided, 

 That nothing herein contained shall affect any valid existing 

 claim, location, or entry under the land laws of the United States 

 or the rights of any such claimant, locator, or entryman to the 

 full use and enjoyment of his land: Provided further. That rights 

 of way through the valleys of the North and Middle forks of the 

 Flathead River for steam or electric railways may be acquired 

 within said Glacier National Park under filings or proceedings 

 heretofore or hereafter made or instituted under the laws apph- 

 cable to the acquisition of such rights over or upon the unap- 

 propriated pubHc domain of the United States, and that the 

 United States Reclamation Service may enter upon and utilize 

 for flowage or other purposes any area within said park which 

 may be necessary for the development and maintenance of a 

 government reclamation project: And provided further, That 

 no lands within the limits of said park hereby created belonging 

 to or claimed by any railroad or other corporation now having 

 or claiming the right of indemnity selection by virtue of any 

 law or contract whatsoever shall be used as a basis for indemnity 

 selection in any State or Territory whatsoever for any loss sus- 

 tained by reason of the creation of said park. 



Section 2. That said park shall be under the exclusive control 

 of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon 

 as practicable, to make and publish such rules and regulations 

 not inconsistent with the laws of the United States as he may 

 deem necessary or proper for the care, protection, management, 

 and improvement of the same, which regulations shall provide 

 for the preservation of the park in a state of nature so far as is 

 consistent with the purposes of this Act, and for the care and 

 protection of the fish and game within the boundaries thereof. 

 Said Secretary may, in his discretion, execute leases to parcels 

 of ground not exceeding ten acres in extent at any one place to 

 any one person or company, for not to exceed twenty years, when 

 such ground is necessary for the erection of buildings for the 

 accommodation of visitors, and to parcels of ground not exceed- 

 ing one acre in extent and for not to exceed twenty years to 

 persons who have heretofore erected or whom he may hereafter 

 authorize to erect summer homes or cottages ; he may also sell 

 and permit the removal of such matured, or dead or down timber 

 as he may deem necessary or advisable for the protection or 

 improvement of the park. 



Approved, May 11, 1910. 



