Chapter 336. Granting the Flagstaff and Canyon Railroad Company right of way for railroad purposes through the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve in northern Arizona
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CHAP. 336.— An Act Granting the Flagstaff and Canyon Railroad Company right of way for railroad purposes through the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve in northern Arizona. June 6, 1896. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the Flagstaff and CanyonFlagstaff and Canyon Railroad Company granted right of way Grand Canyon Forest Reserve, Ariz.Vol. 27, p, 1064. Railroad Company, a corporation created and existing under the laws of Arizona Territory, is authorized to construct and maintain a railroad over and through the Grand Canyon Forest Reserve (heretofore reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a public reservation by Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, by proclamation of date the twentieth day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-three), said railroad to enter the said Grand Canyon ForestLocation.
Reserve at or near Moqui Station, Coconino County, Arizona, and to run thence by the most practicable route to a point, at or near Cameron Ranch, near the Grand Canyon of the Colorado; said right of way to be granted subject to the rights, privileges, rules, and restrictions of anPrivileges, etc.Vol. 18. p. 482. Act entitled “An Act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, said Act being hereby made applicable to the right of way hereby granted: *Provided*, That no timber shall be*Proviso*.Timber. cut by said railway company for any purpose outside of the rights of way herein granted.
Approved, June 6, 1896.