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 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 561. 1891. 1101 be reserved in all patents issued under the provisions of the last two preceding sections the right of the United States to regulate the sumou mum-res. takrnglot sa1mon_and to o all things necessary to protect and prevent the destruction of salmon in al the waters of the lands granted frequented by salmon. · Sec. 15. That until otherwise provided by law the body of lands A¤¤¤¤¤ i¤¤¤¤· known as Annette Islands, situated in Alexander Archipelago in $.i?:°i¤ui:¤l¤. Mum` Southeastern Alaska, on the north side of Dixon’s entrance, be, and the same is hereby, set apart as a reservation for the use of the Metlakahtla Indians, and t ose people known as Metlakahtlans who have recently emigrated from British Columbia to Alaska, and such other Alaskan natives as may join them, to be held and used by them in common, under such rules and regulations, and subject to such restrictions, as may prescribed from time to time by the Secretaréy of the Interior. Ec. 16. That town—site entries may be made by incorporated jrowusrm emma on towns and cities on the mineral lands of the United States, but no §},'{§f§m,'“,,‘{j'; gg}"? title shall be acquired by such towns or cities to any vein of gold, ' silver, cinnabar, copper, or lead, or to any valid mining claim or Mininzclnims. possession held un er existing law. When mineral veins are pos- _ sessed within the limits of an incorporated town or cit, and such ppssession is recognized by local authorityaor by the laws of the nited States, the title to town lots shall subject to such recognized possession and the necessary use thereof and when entry has been made or platent issued for such town sites to such incorporated town or city, the possessor of such mineral vein may enter and receive patent·for such mineral vein, and the surface ground appertaining thereto: Provided, That no entry shall be made by such Pnvm. mineral-vein claimant for surface groun where the owner or oc- ;,;lK€,,.,"{°° °‘ "` cu ier of the surface ground shall have had apossession of the same before the inception o the title of the miner -vein applicant. Sec. 17. That reservoir sites located or selected an to be located umn, 0, ,,,,,0,, ` and selected under the provisions of "An act making appropriations ifs:] 25 M for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year- end- ‘ "‘ ‘ ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and or other purposes," and amen ments thereto, shall be restricted to and shall contain only so much land as is actually necessary for the construction and maintenance of reservoirs; excluding so far as practicable lands occupied by actual settlers at the date of the location of said 1,,,.,;,,,; www reservoirs and that the provision of "Au Act making appropriations umfor sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal {ear ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and or other purposes," which reads as follows, viz: “No person who shall after the passage of this act enter upon any of the public lands with a m,,,,.,,,,, md ,,_ view to occupation, entry, or settlement under anly of the land laws mnggkm i¤¤¤¤<1· shall be permitted to acquire title to more than t ree hundred and .4»¢¤,p.ao1.` ·twent acres in the aggregate under all said laws," shall be construedv to include in the maximum amount of lands the title to which is permitted to be acquired by one person only agricultural lands and not to include lands entered or sought to be entered under mineral land laws. _ Sec. 18. That the right of way through the public lands and res- mgm 0, W N ervations of the United States is here y granted to any canal or- dim ¤¤¤¤r>¤¤i¤¤· -ditch company formed for the purpose of irrigation and uly oriiganized under the laws of any State or Territory, which shall have led, · or may hereafter file, with the Secretary of the Interior a copy of its articles of incorporation, and due proofs of its organization under the same, to the extent of the ground occupied by the water of the reservoir and of the canal and its laterals, and fifty feet on each side of the marginal limits thereof; also the right to take, from the public lands adjacent to the line of the canal or ditch, material, earth, and stone necessary for the construction of such canal or ditch: Provided, That mm.