Chapter 65. To authorize the Great Northern Railway Company to revise the location of its right of way, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 65.— An Act To authorize the Great Northern Railway Company to revise the location of its right of way, and for other purposes. February 27, 1915.[[S. 3897](/us/bill/63/s/3897).][[Public, No. 257](/us/pl/63/257).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Montana.Great Northern Railway Company may change location of right of way in. That, with the consent and approval of the Secretary of the Interior and upon the filing with the Interior Department and the approval thereof by said Secretary of maps of definite location within three years from the passage of this Act, the Great Northern Railway Company, a corporation of the State of Minnesota, be, and it is hereby, authorized to revise the location of that part of its line of railway along the southern boundary of the Glacier National Park, in the State of Montana, on the termsRestrictions, etc.Vol. 18, p. 482. and conditions and subject to the limitations and restrictions granted by and contained in an Act of Congress 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-five815 (Eighteenth Statutes, page four hundred and eighty-two), as amendedVol. 30, p. 1233. by an Act of Congress entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, and for prior years, and for other purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine (Thirtieth Statutes, page twelve hundred and thirty-three): *Provided*, That all lands north of the north line of the revised*Provisos*.Lands added to Glacier National Park. right of way, when said revised line of right of way shall have been approved as aforesaid, shall be excluded from the Lewis and Clark National Forest and become and remain part of the Glacier National Park, and be subject to all the provisions of an Act of Congress entitledVol. 36, p. 354.
“An Act to establish ‘the Glacier National Park’ in the Rocky Mountains south of the international boundary line in the State of Montana, and for other purposes,” approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page three hundred and fifty-four), and to all the provisions of any Act of Congress that may hereafter be passed relative to said park, and the regulations of the Secretary of the Interior heretofore or hereafter prescribed in accordance with law for the government of the Park, and that any and allLands added to Lewis and Clark National Forest.Vol. 37, p. 1753. lands south of the north line of such revised line of right of way which may now be within the Glacier National Park shall become and remain a part of the Lewis and Clark National Forest and be subject to and be governed by the laws heretofore or hereafter enacted by Congress and the regulations heretofore or hereafter prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture for the control of national forests: *Provided further*, That before the Secretary of the Interior shall consentRelinquishment of former right of way. to and approve the revision of location herein authorized, the Great Northern Railway Company shall file with the said Secretary a relinquishment of all claims of whatever nature to that portion of its right of way affected by said revised location.
Approved, February 27, 1915.