Chapter 292. To amend an Act to permit the use of the right of way through public lands for tramroads, canals, and reservoirs, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 292.— An Act To amend an Act to permit the use of the right of way through public lands for tramroads, canals, and reservoirs, and for other purposes. May 11, 1898. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * Public lands.Right of way for tramroads, canals, etc.Vol. 28, p. 635. That the Act entitled “An Act to permit the use of the right of way through the public lands for trainroads, canals, and reservoirs, and for other purposes,” approved January twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety five, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following:
“That the Secretary of the Interior be, and hereby is, authorized and empowered, under general regulations to be fixed by him, to permit the use of right of way upon the public lands of the United States, not within limits of any park, forest, military, or Indian reservations, for tramways, canals, or reservoirs, to the extent of the ground occupied —width.by the water of the canals and reservoirs, and fifty feet on each side of the marginal limits thereof, or fifty feet on each side of the center line of the tramroad, by any citizen or association of citizens of the United —use of water for domestic and public purposes.—for ditches, etc.States, for the purposes of furnishing water for domestic, public, and other beneficial uses.
" “Sec. 2. That the rights of way for ditches, canals, or reservoirs heretofore or hereafter approved under the provisions of sections eighteen, Vol. 26, p. 1101.nineteen, twenty, and twenty-one of the Act entitled ‘An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,’ approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, may be used for purposes of a public nature; and said rights of way may be used for purposes of water transportation, for domestic purposes, or for the development of power, as subsidiary to the main purpose of irrigation.
” " Approved, May 11, 1898.