Chapter 234. Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant leases for situs on the Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas, for cold-water reservoirs
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CHAP. 234.— An Act Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to grant leases for situs on the Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas, for cold-water reservoirs.August 7, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Hot Springs Water Company.Lease of site for void-water reservoirs. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and be is hereby, authorized to lease unto the Hot Springs Water Company, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, its successors and assigns, or to any other person or corporation authorized to supply the city of Hot Springs with cold water for drinking and domestic purposes, a site upon the West Mountain of the Hot Springs Reservation, to be selected by him, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining thereon a reservoir for cold water and the pipes necessary to connect the same with the system of water supply of the city of Hot Springs, the term of such lease to be not to exceed twenty years, and the consideration therefor an annual rental of one hundred dollars, to be collected andRental. accounted for as now provided by law in relation to the collection and accounting for of revenue derived from leases of bathhouse sites upon the Hot Springs Reservation: *Provided*, That on the termination of*Proviso*.Renewal. any lease granted under authority of this Act the Secretary of the Interior shall have like power and authority, in his discretion, to extend or renew the same for additional periods of not exceeding twenty years.
Approved, August 7, 1894.