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its regularly authorized representative, has, in order to protect 

 the interests most directly involved, agreed to file with the 

 Secretary of the Interior a stipulation approved by specific reso- 

 lution of the Board of Supervisors and duly executed under the 

 seal of the city of San Francisco, as follows : 



1. The city of San Francisco practically owns all the 

 patented land in the floor of the Hetch Hetchy reservoir 

 site and sufficient adjacent areas in the Yosemite National 

 Park and the Sierra National Forest to equal the remainder 

 of that reservoir area. The city will surrender to the 

 United States equivalent areas outside of the reservoir 

 sites and within the national park and adjacent reserves in 

 exchange for the remaining land in the reservoir sites, for 

 which authority from Congress will be obtained, if necessary. 



2. The city and county of San Francisco distinctly under- 

 stands and agrees that all the rules and regulations for the 

 government of the park, now or hereafter in force, shall be 

 applicable to its holdings within the park, and that, except to 

 the extent that the necessary use of its holding for the 

 exclusive purpose of storing and protecting water for the 

 uses herein specified will be interfered with, the public may 

 have the full enjoyment thereof, under regulations fixed by 

 the Secretary of the Interior. 



3. The city and county of San Francisco will develop the 

 Lake Eleanor site to its full capacity before beginning the 

 development of the Hetch Hetchy site, and the development 

 of the later will be begun only when the needs of the city 

 and county of San Francisco, and adjacent cities which may 

 join with it in obtaining a common water supply, may require 

 such further development. As the drainage area tributary 

 to Lake Eleanor will not yield, under the conditions herein 

 imposed, sufficient run-off in dry years to replenish the 

 reservoir, a diverting dam and canal from Cherry Creek 

 to Lake Eleanor reservoir for the conduct of waste flood 

 or extra-seasonal waters to said reservoir is essential for 

 the development of the site to its full capacity, and will be 

 constructed if permission is given by the Secretary of the 

 Interior. 



4. The city and county of San Francisco, and any other 

 city or cities which may, with the approval of the municipal 

 authorities, join with said city and county of San Francisco 

 in obtaining a common water supply, will not interfere in 

 the sHghtest particular with the right of the Modesto Irriga- 

 tion District and the Turlock Irrigation District to use the 

 natural flow of the Tuolumne River and its branches to the 

 full extent of their claims, as follows : Turlock Irrigation 

 District, 1,500 second-feet; Modesto Irrigation District, 850 

 second-feet ; these districts having respectively appropriated 

 the foregoing amounts of water under the laws of the State 

 of California. 



To the end that these rights may be fully protected, San 

 Francisco will stipulate not to store, nor cause to be stored, 

 divert, nor cause to be diverted from the Tuolumne River 

 or any of its branches, any of the natural flow of said river 

 when desired for use by said districts for any beneficial pur- 



