Chapter 757. Granting the Central Arizona Railway Company a right of way for railroad purposes through the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve, in the Territory of Arizona
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CHAP. 757.— An Act Granting the Central Arizona Railway Company a right of way for railroad purposes through the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve, in the Territory of Arizona. February 25, 1903.[[Public, No. 117](/us/pl/34/117).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That upon the conditionsSan Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve, Arizona.Central Arizona Railway Company granted right of way through.Vol. 18, p. 482. herein named the Central Arizona Railway Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the Territory of Arizona, is hereby granted a right of way, conformably to the Act entitled “An Act granting to railroads a right of way through the public lands of the United States,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and the existing regulations adopted thereunder, over and through the San Francisco Mountains Forest Reserve, in the Territory of Arizona, for a line of railroad from a point at or near Flagstaff, in the county ofLocation.
Coconino, Territory of Arizona, in a southwesterly direction by the most practicable route to the town of Jerome, in the county of Yavapai, Territory of Arizona, and thence in a southeasterly direction to the town of Globe, in the county of Gila, Territory of Arizona, with the right to construct and maintain all necessary side tracks, extensions, switches, spurs, and water stations: *Provided*, That as a condition to*Proviso*,Protection to forest reserve. obtaining such right of way the said company shall be required to agree, in writing, to conform to such further regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for the purpose of protecting the said forest reserve and conserving the purposes for which the reserve was established and is maintained; but said company shall not be authorized to take or cut any timber within the limits of said forest reserve outside of its said right of way.
Approved, February 25, 1903.