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thereof by the United States, file with the register of the land office for the district where such land is located a map of its line, and upon the approval thereof by the Secretary of the Interior the same shall be noted upon the plats in said office, and thereafter all such lands over which such right-of-way shall pass shall be disposed of subject to such right-of-way. (May 21, 1896, sec. 2, 29 Stat. 127; 43 U. S. C., sec. 963.)

1949. Limit of time for completion; forfeiture.-If any section of said pipe line shall not be completed within five years after the location of said section, the right herein granted shall be forfeited, as to any incomplete section of said pipe line, to the extent that the same is not completed at the date of the forfeiture. (May 21, 1896, sec. 3, 29 Stat. 127; 43 U. S. C., sec. 964.)

1950. Restriction on use.-Nothing in this Act [43 U. S. C., secs. 962 to 965] shall authorize the use of such right-of-way except for the pipe line, and then only so far as may be necessary for its construction, maintenance, and care. (May 21, 1896, sec. 4, 29 Stat. 127; 43 U. S. C., sec. 965.)

1951. Right-of-way in Arkansas to pipe-line companies.-A right-ofway through the public lands of the United States in the State of Arkansas is granted for pipe-line purposes to any citizen of the United States or any company or corporation authorized by its charter to transport oil, crude or refined, or natural gas which shall have filed or may hereafter file with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proof of organization under the same, to the extent of the ground occupied by the said pipe line and ten feet on each side of the center line of same. (Apr. 12, 1910, sec. 1, 36 Stat. 296; 43 U. S. C., sec. 966.)

1952. Applications for right-of-way.-Any citizen of the United States, company, or corporation desiring to secure the benefits of this Act [sections 966 to 970] shall within twelve months after the location of ten miles of the pipe line, if the same be upon surveyed land, and if the same be upon unsurveyed lands within twelve months after the survey thereof by the United States, file with the register of the land office for the district where such land is located a map of its lines, and upon the approval thereof by the Secretary of the Interior, the same shall be noted upon the plats in said office, and thereafter all such land over which such line shall pass shall be disposed of subject to such right-of-way. (Apr. 12, 1910, sec. 2, 36 Stat. 296; 43 U. S. C., sec. 967.)

1953. Restriction on use.-Nothing in this Act [sections 966 to 970] shall authorize the use of such right-of-way except for the pipe line, and then only so far as may be necessary for its construction, maintenance, and care. (Apr. 12, 1910, sec. 3, 36 Stat. 296; 43 U. S. C., sec. 968.)

1954. Forfeiture for nonuser, etc.-If any section of said pipe line shall not be completed within one year after the approval by the Secretary of the Interior of said section, or if any section of said pipe line shall be abandoned or shall not be used for a period of two years, the right-of-way granted in this Act [sections 966 to 970] as to any uncompleted, abandoned, or unused section of said pipe line shall be forfeited to the extent that the same is not completed or is abandoned or unused at the date of the forfeiture, without

further action or declaration on the part of the Government or any proceedings or judgment of any court. (Apr. 12, 1910, sec. 4, 36 Stat. 296; 43 U. S. C., sec. 969.)

1955. Forfeiture for violation of antitrust law. If any citizen, company, or corporation taking advantage of the benefits of this Act [sections 966 to 970] shall violate the Act of July 2, 1890, entitled "An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies" (commonly known as the "Sherman Anti-Trust Act" [15 U. S. C., secs. 1-71, or any amendment thereof, the rightof-way granted shall be forfeited without further action or declaration on the part of the Government or any proceedings or judgment of any court. (Apr. 12, 1910, sec. 5, 36 Stat. 296; 43 U. Š. C., sec. 970.)

1956. Bathhouses, hotels, etc., adjacent to mineral, medicinal, etc., springs on public lands.-The Secretary of the Interior, upon such terms and under such regulations as he may deem proper, may permit responsible persons or associations to use and occupy, for the erection of bathhouses, hotels, or other improvements for the accommodation of the public, suitable spaces or tracts of land near or adjacent to mineral, medicinal, or other springs which are located upon unreserved public lands or public lands which have been withdrawn for the protection of such springs: Provided, That permits or leases hereunder shall be for periods not exceeding twenty years. (Mar. 3, 1925, 43 Stat. 1133; 43 U. S. C., sec. 971.)

UNLAWFUL INCLOSURES OR OCCUPANCY; OBSTRUCTING SETTLEMENT OR

TRANSIT

1957. Inclosure of or assertion of right to public lands without title.That all inclosures of any public lands in any State or Territory of the United States, heretofore or to be hereafter made, erected, or constructed by any person, party, association, or corporation, to any of which land included within the inclosure the person, party, association, or corporation making or controlling the inclosure had no claim or color of title made or acquired in good faith, or an asserted right thereto by or under claim, made in good faith with a view to entry thereof at the proper land office under the general laws of the United States at the time any such inclosure was or shall be made, are hereby declared to be unlawful, and the maintenance, erection, construction, or control of any such inclosure is hereby forbidden and prohibited; and the assertion of a right to the exclusive use and occupancy of any part of the public lands of the United States in any State or any of the Territories of the United States, without claim, color of title, or asserted right as above specified as to inclosure, is likewise declared unlawful, and hereby prohibited. (Feb. 25, 1885, sec. 1, 23 Stat. 321; 43 U. S. C., sec. 1061.)

1958. Suits for violations of law. That it shall be the duty of the district attorney of the United States for the proper district, on affidavit filed with him by any citizen of the United States that section one of this act [43 U. S. C., sec. 1061] is being violated showing a description of the land inclosed with reasonable certainty, not necessarily by metes and bounds nor by Governmental subdivisions of surveyed lands, but only so that the inclosure may be identified, and the persons guilty of the violation as nearly as may be, and by de

scription, if the name cannot on reasonable inquiry be ascertained, to institute a civil suit in the proper United States district court, or territorial district court, in the name of the United States, and against the parties named or described who shall be in charge of or controlling the inclosure complained of as defendants; and jurisdiction is also hereby conferred on any United States district court or territorial district court having jurisdiction over the locality where the land inclosed, or any part thereof, shall be situated, to hear and determine proceedings in equity, by writ of injunction, to restrain violations of the provisions of this act; and it shall be sufficient to give the court jurisdiction if service of original process be had in any civil proceeding on any agent or employee having charge or control of the inclosure; and any suit brought under the provisions of this section shall have precedence for hearing and trial over other cases on the civil docket of the court, and shall be tried and determined at the earliest practicable day. In any case if the inclosure shall be found to be unlawful, the court shall make the proper order, judgment, or decree for the destruction of the inclosure, in a summary way, unless the inclosure shall be removed by the defendant within five days after the order of the court. (Feb. 25, 1885, sec. 2, 23 Stat 321; Mar. 3, 1911, sec. 291, 36 Stat. 1167; 43 U. S. C., sec. 1062.)

1959. Obstruction of settlement on or transit over public lands.-That no person, by force, threats, intimidation, or by any fencing or inclosing, or any other unlawful means, shall prevent or obstruct, or shall combine and confederate with others to prevent or obstruct, any person from peaceably entering upon or establishing a settlement or residence on any tract of public land subject to settlement or entry under the public land laws of the United States, or shall prevent or obstruct free passage or transit over or through the public lands: Provided, This section shall not be held to affect the right or title of persons, who have gone upon, improved or occupied said lands under the land laws of the United States, claiming title thereto, in good faith. (Feb. 25, 1885, sec. 3, 23 Stat. 322; 43 U. S. C., sec. 1063.)

1960. Violations of act; punishment.-That any person violating any of the provisions hereof, whether as owner, part owner, or agent, or who shall aid, abet, counsel, advise, or assist in any violation hereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, for each offense. (Feb. 25, 1885, sec. 4, 23 Stat. 322; Mar. 10, 1908, 35 Stat. 40; 43 U. S. C., sec. 1064.)

1961. Removal of enclosures.-That the President is hereby authorized to take such measures as shall be necessary to remove and destroy any unlawful inclosure of any of said lands, and to employ civil or military force as may be necessary for that purpose. (Feb. 25, 1885, sec. 5, 23 Stat. 322; 43 U. S. C., sec. 1065.)

1962. Permission of Secretary to sue.-That where the alleged unlawful inclosure includes less than one hundred and sixty acres of land, no suit shall be brought under the provisions of this act without authority from the Secretary of the Interior. (Feb. 25, 1885, sec. 6, 23 Stat. 322; 43 U. S. C., sec. 1066.)

PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1963. Detail of employees of Government Printing Office to executive departments. Hereafter no employee of the Government Printing Office shall be detailed to duties not pertaining to the work of public printing and binding in any executive department or other Government establishment unless expressly authorized by law. (June 25, 1910, sec. 1, 36 Stat. 770; 44 U. S. C., sec. 47.)

1964. Sale of duplicate plates; copyright.-The Public Printer shall sell, under such regulations as the Joint Committee on Printing may prescribe, to any person or persons who may apply additional or duplicate stereotype or electrotype plates from which any Government publication is printed, at a price not to exceed the cost of composition, the metal and making to the Government and ten per centum added: Provided, That the full amount of the price shall be paid when the order is filed: And provided further, That no publication reprinted from such stereotype or electrotype plates and no other Government publication shall be copyrighted. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 52, 28 Stat. 608; 44 U. S. C., sec. 58.)

1965. Machinery, material, equipment, or supplies from other departments. That any officer of the Government having machinery, material, equipment, or supplies for printing, binding, and blank-book work, including lithography, photo-lithography, and other processes of reproduction, which are no longer required or authorized for his service, shall submit a detailed report of the same to the Public Printer, and the Public Printer is hereby authorized, with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing, to requisition such articles of the character herein described as are serviceable in the Government Printing Office, and the same shall be promptly delivered to that office. (July 19, 1919, sec. 3, 41 Stat. 233; 44 U. S. C., sec. 59.)

1966. Consolidation of department printing offices.-All printing offices in the Departments now in operation, or hereafter put in operation, by law, shall be considered a part of the Government Printing Office, and shall be under the control of the Public Printer, who shall furnish all presses, types, imposing stones, and necessary machinery and material for said offices from the general supplies of the Government Printing Office; and all paper and material of every kind used in the said offices for departmental work, except letter and note paper and envelopes, shall be supplied by the Public Printer; and all persons employed in said printing offices and binderies shall be appointed by the Public Printer, and be carried on his pay roll the same as employees in the main office, and shall be responsible to him: Provided, That the terms of this Act shall not apply to the office in the Weather Bureau; but the Public Printer, with the approval of the Joint Committee on Printing, may abolish such excepted office whenever in their judgment the economy of the public service would be thereby advanced.

All work done in the said offices shall be ordered on blanks prepared for that purpose by the Public Printer, which shall be numbered consecutively, and must be signed by someone designated by the head of the Department for which the work is to be done, who shall be

held responsible for all work thus ordered, and who shall quarterly report to the head of the Department a classified statement of the work done and the cost thereof, which report shall be transmitted to the Public Printer in time for his annual report to Congress. The Public Printer shall show in detail, in his annual report, the cost of operating each departmental office. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 31, 28 Stat. 605; Mar. 6, 1902, sec. 11, 32 Stat. 53; Apr. 23, 1904, 33 Stat. 262; Mar. 2, 1907, 34 Stat. 1158; Mar. 3, 1917, sec. 1, 39 Stat. 1083; 44 U. S. C., sec. 60.)

1967. Branches of Printing Office in executive departments.-No money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for maintaining more than one branch of the Government Printing Office in any one building occupied by any executive department or departments of the Government, nor shall any branch of the Government Printing Office be established hereafter unless specifically authorized by law. (Aug. 1, 1914, sec. 1, 38 Stat. 673; 44 U. S. C., sec. 61.)

SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS

1968. Superintendent of Documents; sale of documents.-The Public Printer shall appoint a competent person to act as superintendent of documents, and shall fix his salary. The superintendent of documents so designated and appointed is hereby authorized to sell at cost any public document in his charge, the distribution of which is not herein specifically directed, said cost to be estimated by the Public Printer and based upon printing from stereotyped plates; but only one copy of any document shall be sold to the same person, excepting libraries or schools by which additional copies are desired for separate departments thereof, and members of Congress; and whenever any officer of the Government having in his charge documents published for sale shall desire to be relieved of the same, he is hereby authorized to turn them over to the superintendent of documents, who shall receive and sell them under the provisions of this section. All moneys received from the sale of documents shall be returned to the Public Printer on the first day of each month and be by him covered into the Treasury monthly, and the superintendent of documents shall report annually the number of copies of each and every document sold by him, and the price of the same. He shall also report monthly to the Public Printer the number of documents received by him and the disposition made of the same. He shall have general supervision of the distribution of all public documents, and to his custody shall be committed all documents subject to distribution, excepting those printed for the special official use of the Executive Departments, which shall be delivered to said Departments, and those printed for the use of the two Houses of Congress, which shall be delivered to the folding rooms of said Houses and distributed or delivered ready for distribution to Members and Delegates upon their order by the superintendents of the folding rooms of the Senate and House of Representatives. (Jan. 12, 1895, sec. 61, 28 Stat. 610; 44 U. S. C., sec. 71.)

1969. Index of documents; number and distribution. The superintendent of documents shall, at the close of each regular session of Congress, prepare and publish a comprehensive index of public docu

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