United States v. City & County of San Francisco

By the Raker Act of December 19, 1913, Congress granted the City and County of San Francisco, 2 subject to express conditions, certain lands and rights-of-way in the public domain in Yosemite National Park and Stanis-laus National Forest. The Act in terms declared that this, known as the “Hetch-Hetchy” grant, was intended for use by the City both in constructing and maintaining *a means of supplying water for the ■'domestic purposes of the City and other public bodies, and in establishing a system “for generation and sale and distribution of electric energy.”

Upon application of the Secretary…