Public Law 74–733

That there is hereby granted to the city of Los Angeles a municipal corporation of the State of California, all lands belonging to the United States situated in Mono County, California, which may be necessary, as found by the Secretary of the Interior, for any or all of the following purposes:

Rights-of-way; buildings and structures; construction and maintenance camps; dumping grounds; flowage, diverting, or storage dams; pumping plants; power plants; canals, ditches, pipes, and pipe lines; flumes, tunnels, and conduits for conveying water for domestic, irrigation, power, and other useful purposes; poles, towers, and lines for, the conveyance and distribution of electrical energy; poles and lines for telephone and telegraph purposes; roads, trails, bridges, tramways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, transmission, or communication; for obtaining stone, earth, gravel, and other materials of like character; or any other necessary purposes of said city, together with the right to take for its own use, free of cost, from any public lands, within such limits as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, stone, earth, gravel, sand, and other materials of like character necessary or useful in the construction, operation, and maintenance of aqueducts, reservoirs, dams, pumping plants, electric plants, and transmission, telephone, and telegraph lines, roads, trails, bridges, tramways, railroads, and other means of locomotion, transmission, and communication, or any other necessary purposes of the city of Los Angeles.

That there is hereby excepted and reserved unto the United States,

Minerals reserved; exception.

from said grant, minerals, other than sand, stone, earth, gravel, and other materials of like character: Provided, however, That such

Proviso.

Regulations.

minerals so excepted and reserved shall be prospected for, mined, and removed only in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior.

This grant shall be effective upon (1) the filing by said grantee

Conditions.

at any time after the passage of this Act, with the register of the United States local land office in the district where said lands are situated, of a map or maps showing the boundaries, locations, and extent of said lands and of said rights-of-way for the purposes hereinabove set forth; (2) the approval of such map or maps by the Secretary of the Interior, with such reservations or modifications as he may deem appropriate; (3) the payment of $1.25 per acre

Purchase price.

for all Government lands conveyed under this Act other than for the right-of-way for the Mono Basin aqueduct: Provided, That said

Provisos.

Rights-of-way; location, width, etc.

lands for rights-of-way shall be along such location and of such width, not to exceed two hundred and fifty feet, as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for the purposes of this Act: And provided further, That said lands for any of said

Mono Basin aqueduct, rights-of-way.

purposes other than rights-of-way for the Mono Basin aqueduct may be of such width or extent as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior as necessary for such purposes.

Sec. 2.

That where any of the lands to which the city of Los

National forest lands.

Angeles seeks to acquire title under section 1 of this Act, are in a national forest, the said map or maps shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture so far as national-forest lands are affected; and upon such approval and the subsequent approval by the Secretary of the Interior, title to said lands shall vest in the grantee upon the date of such subsequent approval.

Sec. 3.

Said grants are to be made subject to rights-of-way, easements,

Provisions of grants.

and permits heretofore granted or allowed to any person or corporation in accordance with any Act or Acts of Congress and subject to the rights of all claimants or persons who shall have

Prior rights.

filed or made valid claims, locations, or entries on or to said lands, or any part thereof prior to the effective date of any conflicting grant hereunder, unless prior to such effective date proper relinquishments or quitclaims have been procured and caused to be filed in the propei^- land office.

Sec. 4.

That, whenever the land granted herein shall cease to be used for the purposes for which it is granted, the estate of the grantee or of its assigns shall terminate and revest in the United

Restriction on assignment.

States. That any grants made hereunder shall not be assigned to any private individual, association of such individuals, or a private corporation.