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act, west of the one hundredth meridian it shall be expressed that there is 
reserved from the lands in said patent described a right of way thereon for 
ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States. * * * 
Approved August 30, 1890. (26 Stat., 371.) 
AN ACT to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House oj Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, * * * * * * 
Sec. 16. That townsite entries may be made by incorporated towns and cities 
on the mineral lands of the United States, but no title shall be acquired by such 
towns or cities to any vein of gold, silver, cinnabar, copper, or lead, or to any 
valid mining claim or possession held under existing law. W hen mineral veins 
are possessed within the limits of an incorporated town or city, and such pos¬ 
session is recognized by local authority or by the laws ot the L nited States, the 
title to town lots shall be subject to such recognized possession and the necessary 
use thereof and when entry has been made or patent issued lor such townsites 
to such incorporated town or city, the possessor oi such mineral vein may enter 
and receive patent for such mineral vein, and the surface ground appertaining 
thereto : Provided , That no entry shall be made by such mineral-vein claimant 
for surface ground where the owner or occupier of the surface ground shall have 
had possession of the same before the inception of the title of the mineral-vein 
applicant. 
Sec. 1 7. That reservoir sites located or selected and to be located and selected 
under the provisions of “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses 
of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred 
and eighty-nine, and for other purposes,” a*d amendments thereto, shall be 
restricted to and shall contain only so much land as is actually necessary for the 
construction and maintenance of reservoirs, excluding so far as practicable lands 
occupied by actual settlers at the date of the location of said reservoirs, and that 
the provisions of “An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of 
the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and 
ninety-one, and for other purposes,” which reads as follows, viz: “No person 
who shall after the passage of this act enter upon any of the public lands with a 
view to occupation, entry, or settlement under any of the land laws shall be per¬ 
mitted to acquire title to more than three hundred and twenty acres in the 
aggregate under all said laws,” shall be construed to include in the maximum 
amount of lands the title to which is permitted to be acquired by one person 
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