FIFTY·NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 3925, 3926. 1906. 80] all or any part of the south half of the northwest quarter of section thirty, township one hundred and sixty-two north, range seventy-two west, in the State of North Dakota, and that the person or persons to whom the same shall be conveyed shall take andhold the lands so conveyed free and clear of any limitation placed on the use thereof by Vo1.80, p. sm. the Act under which said lands were granted to said corporation. Approved, June 30, 1906. CHAP. 3928.-An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Interior to June 30. 1906. sell to the city of Los Angeles, Caliiomia, certain public lands lh California; and [8***8-] granting rights in, over, and through the Sierra Forest Reserve, the Santa Barbara [Public, No. 896.] orest Reserve, and the San Gabriel Timber Land Reserve, California, to the city of Los Angeles, California. Be iteuaeted ke; the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 0 f America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby granted cu to the city of Los An eles, California, a municipal corporation of the grunted rights or wa; State of California, ad necessary rights of way, not to exceed two hun- ,*3 ,,°f'§'Q,‘i°f,§'§°e,},Y“°°” dred and fifty feet in width, over and through the public lands of the aéwggggl United States in the counties of Inyo, Kern; and Los Angeles, State ms, ew. of California, and over and throu h the Sierra and Santa Barbara forest reserves and the San Gabriel dimber Land Reserve, in said State, for the purpose of constructing, operating, and maintaining canals, ditches, pipes and pipe lines, iiumes, tunnels, and conduits for convey- ing water to the citly of Los Angeles, and for the purpose of constructing, o rating, an maintaining power and electric plants, poles and lines fbi- theneration and distribution of electric energy, together with such lands as the Secretary of the Interior may deem to be actually necessary for power houses, diverting and storage dams and reservoirs, and necessary buildings and structures to be used in connection with the construction, operation, and maintenance of said water, power, and electric plants, whenever said city shall have tiled, as hereinafter provided, and the same shall have been approved by the Secretary of · the Interior, a map or maps showing the boundaries, locations, and extent of said proposed rights of way for the purposes hereinabove _ set forth. Sec. 2. That within one ear after the passa e of this Act the cit S¢¤¢¢wry<>fInterior of Los Angeles shall tile wdh the registers of the United States Land °°“°°r°v° °l°"”’°°°‘ offices in the districts where the lands traversed by said rights of way are located, a map or maps showing the boundaries, locations. and M¤r>¤· extent of said proposed rights of way, for the purposes stated in section one of this Act; but no construction work shall be commenced on said land until said map or maps have been tiled as herein provided _ and approved by the Secretary of tbe_ Interior: Provided, however, umm. That any changes of location of said l'1gl1tS of way may be made by °l""'g°“· said city of Los Angeles, within two years after the tiling of said map or maps, by filing such additional niaip OI` [naps as may be necessary to show such changes of location, SBI additional map or maps to be tiled in the same manner as the original map or maps; and the approval of the Secretary of the Interior of said map or maps showing changes of location of said rights of way shall operate as an abandonment by the city of Los Angeles to the extent of such change or changes, of the rights of W8·_y lndinnbéfl On the original maps; And · · _ py·m,·ulerl fimther, That any l'1gl1lT5 lnl1l'll1g‘ to the city of Los Angeles m§:g*;}¤mg<;$¤¤ WM under this Act shall. on the approval of the map or maps referred to herein by the Secretary of the Interior, relate back to the date of the filing of said map or maps with the register of the United States land omce as provided herein. _ Sm;. 3. That the rights of WHY l1BI'Bby grantedshall not beedective mlgrgmggvpigghgpke over any land upon wh1ch h0I11€SliB8d, mlnmg, or other existing valid ,,m,,;,_" vox. xxxiv, rr 1--51
