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Show REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXXIII I Secretary of the Interior to negotiate with the Shoshone and Bannaok tribes of Indians, in such manner as he may deem most advisable, and upon just terms of compensation, for a cession to the United Statee of their title to so mnch of the lands of the Fort Hall Reservation, limited as in the bill mentioned, as are required for the pnrposes of the Utah and Northern Railway Company in the operation of its railroad running north and sonth through tiaid reservation; also for a like ceasion to the United States of such additional land at Pocatello Station as shall be demonstrated to the satisfaotion of the Secretary of the Interior to be actually necessary to the said Utah and Northern Ra~lwayO ompauy and the Oregon Short-Line Railway Company for railway purposes and in the transaction of their authorized and legitimate business at that point; the result of such negotiations to be embodied in a written agreement to be signed by the requisite nnmber of Indians, in conform-ity with the provisions of the treaty of July 3,1868 (15 Stats., 676), and to be retnrned to the Secretary of the Interior, who is directed to report his action under the bill to Congress. A similar bill (5.2789) was in-troduced in the Senate, but beyond reference to committee no further action was had by Congress on either messnre. Gila River (Pima 4 Marimpa) Reserve, Arizona.-Late in the session the Honse passed a bill (H. R. 9736) granting the Maricopa and Phcenix Railway Company aright of way through this reservation. The Senate, however, failed to take action on the memure. I~dian T&fmy.-In the annual report of this office for 1884 men-tion was made of certain acts of Congress passed at the 6rst session of the Forty-eighthcongress granting to the Sonthern Eausas Railway Oompany, and the Qnlf, Colorado and Santa FB Railway Oompauy, respectively, right of way through the Indian Territory. During the past year both companies have commenced operations. Maps of the first five sections, of twenty-five miles each, of the main line, and first four sections of the branch line of the Sonthern Kansas Bailway, and of the first section of the Golf, Colorado and Santa FB Railway, have severally received your approval. The Cherokee Nation having, by its national council, formally dis-seuted from the allowmces made in the fifth section of the act author-izing the construction of the Southern Kansas Railway, and certified the same to the Secretary-of the Interior, Messrs. J. M. Galloway, of Fort Scott, Kans., W. H. Dyer, of Van Buren, Ark., and James Brodie, of Little Rock, Ark., have been appointed by the President a board of appraisers for the purposes named in the act, and have entered upon the duties of their appointment. The general council of the Otoes and Missourias, through whose reservation the main line passes, has also filed in the Department a formal protest against the allowances provided in the act. During the last seasion of Oongreas acts were also passed granting a right of way through the Terntory tothe Denison and Washita Rail- 7572 I A-III . |