Chapter 221. To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to rent or lease certain portions of forest reserve
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CHAP. 221.— An Act To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to rent or lease certain portions of forest reserve. February 28, 1899. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Forest reserves.Authority conferred to lease grounds in, for hotels, etc. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized, under such rules and regulations as he from time to time may make, to rent or lease to responsible persons or corporations applying therefor suitable spaces and portions of ground near, or adjacent to, mineral, medicinal, or other springs, within any forest reserves established within the United States, or hereafter to be established, and where the public is accustomed or desires to frequent, for health or pleasure, for the purpose of erecting upon such leased ground sanitariums or hotels, to be opened for the reception of the Regulations.public.
And he is further authorized to make such regulations, for the convenience of people visiting such springs, with reference to spaces and locations, for the erection of tents or temporary dwelling houses to be erected or constructed for the use of those visiting such springs for health or pleasure. And the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to prescribe the terms and duration and the compensation to be paid for the privileges granted under the provisions of this Act. Sec. 2.
Funds to be used for care of forest reserves. That all funds arising from the privileges granted hereunder shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as a special fund, to be expended in the care of public forest reservations. Approved, February 28, 1899.