Codification
Section, acts [Feb. 15, 1901, ch. 372], [31 Stat. 790]; [Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, § 1], [33 Stat. 628], insofar as it relates to rights-of-way through public lands, forests, and reservations, and the Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks is set out as [section 79 of this title] and [section 959 of Title 43], Public Lands, and insofar as it related to rights-of-way through national forests was set out as this section. [Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 706(a)], Oct. 21, 1976, [90 Stat. 2793], effective on and after Oct. 21, 1976, repealed this section insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest System.
