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Show G ~ E A T SIOUX RESRR\7AT103. Ch~cagoM, ilmaukee and St. Paul Railroad.-Senatc biH So. 8464. "A bill to amend section sixteen of chapter four hnndred and five of an act of Congress approved March second, eighteen l~ullilreda nd eighty-nine, relating to the reservation of the Sionx Nation ill Dakota, by ex-tending the time within whioh $110 said company mny co~~st rnictst road across the reservation?' The bill wa;r reported on in office letter of May 17,1892, to the Secretary of the Interior. SIBSETON AND WAUPETOA RESEIIVATIOX. w Watertown, Sioux City and Duluth Railway.-Senate bill No. 2657. '(A bill granting right of way to the Watertown, Sioux City and Dnlnth Railway Company through the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indian Reser-vation?' The bill was reported on in office letter of May 21,1892, to the Secretary of the Interior. GRANTS REFERRED TO IN PRZVIOUS ANNUAL BEPORTS. INDIAN AND OKLAHOLIA TILKIlI'CO1IIES. hickg go, Rook Island and Pac@o Railway.-By act of Jnne 27,1890 (26 Stats., 181), the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Xailway Company was authorized to sell its entire line of roaa and all its railway prop-erty, rights, and franchises in the Indian and Oklahoma Territories, to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company. On January 7,1892, this office received official notice through M. A. Low, late presi-dent of the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway Company, of the sale and transfer on March 10, 1891, of all the rights, franchises, &il-way, and property of -said- company in the Indian Territory and the Territory of Oklahoua, to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Rail-way Company. On February 16,1892, the latter company filed in this office, for the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, maps of definite location of the sixth, seventh, and eighth 25-mile sectiions and the ninth section of 23.6 miles, which extends to the southern boundary of the Indian Territory. These maps were approved by the Secretary of the Interior February 19,1892. The company'has also paid to the Secre-tary of the Interior, for the benefit of the particnlar nations or tribes through whose lands %aid road is locate,d, the sum of $50 per mile for the distance shown by said. maps of definite location, amounting to $4;930. This completes the payment to the Indians of $50 per mile for right of way through the entire Indian Territory, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway Company having paid for right of way through Indian lands up to the end of the fifth 25-mile section prior to the sale and transfer of the road to the Chicago, Rook Island and Pacific Railway Company. Two maps of station grounds have also been approved, one on April 19,1892, in the west half of section 27, township 7 north, range 7 west, and the other on July 12,1892, in section'34, township 6 north, |