Mr. NYE. With the consent of the chair man of the ComCommerce, who yields to me for that purpose, I move to take up Senate bill No. 140. The motion was agreed to; and the bill (S.No.140) to grant the right of way to the Humboldt Canal Company through the public lands of the U.S. was considered as in ComWhole. By its provisions the right of way for a canal through the public lands of the U.S. lying in Humboldt county, State of Nevada, and the use of the land for tow paths, cuttings, and embankments, to the extent of 50 feet on each side of the center of the canal, is to be granted to the Humboldt Canal company; and in cases where deep excavation or eavy embankment is required, such greater width, not exceeding 200 feet, may be taken by the company as may be necessary. In order to create a reservoir for the company sufficient to feed the canal in all seasons, the company may, by a dam across the Humboldt river, at such point at or near the gap in the Fremont range of mountains through which the river passes, flow so much of the public lands above the dam as may be require for the purposes of the reservoir. It is also proposed to grant to the company the necessary sites along the canal for waste gates, mill sites, depots, and other uses of the canal, so far as places convenient for the same fall upon the public lands, and also the privilege of discharging the waste waters of the canal over any public lands into the Humboldt river, at such aces as may be suitable for that purpose; but t 1oproperotheers of the company are to transmit to the ComrGLO a correct lot of the survey and location of the canal, ant? of the sites needed for mills, depots, waste gates, and other uses, before the appropriation thereof for those uses shall become operative. Unless 30 miles of the canal shalf be excavated within one year, and the whole within 3 years from the passage of the act, all these grants are to ceaseand determine; and if the canal shall at any time after its completion be discontinued or aban doned by the company, the nts shall cease and determine, and the lan 5 shall revert to the U.S. Nothing in the act is to be so construed as to interfere with any grant of the right of way and of public lands heretofore made to any railroad company.