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Show - 114 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. maps should bear the affidavit of the chief engineer, sett,ing forth that the survey of the route of the company's road from -t o -1 a distance of -miles (giving termini and distance), WMR made by hinl (or under his direction), as chief engineer, under authority of the com-pany, on or between certain dates (giving the sa,me), %nd that sn;h snr-vey is accurately represented on the map. The affidavit of the chief engineer must be signed by him officially, and verified by the certificates of the president of the company, attested .by its secretary under its corporate seal, setting forth that the person signing the affidavit was either the chief engineer or was employed for the purpose of making such survey, which mas done under the authority of the company. Further, that the lineof routeso surveyed and represented by the map was adopted by the company by resolution of its board of directors of a certain date (giving the date) as the definite location of the line of road from -to -, a distance of -- miles (giving termin and distance), and that the map has been prepared to be filed for the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, in order that the company may obtain tho benefits of the act of Congress approved - (giving date). 3. Separate plats of ground desired for station purposes, in addition to right of way, should befiled, and such grounds should not be rep-resented up011 the maps of definite location, but should be marked by station numbers or otherwise, so that their exact location can be deter-mined upon the maps. Plats of station grounds should bear the same affidavits and certificates as maps of definite locatiou. All maps presented for approval should be drawn on tracing linen, the scale not less than 2,000 feet to the inch, and should be filed in du-plicate. These requirements follow, as far as practicable, the published regula-tions governing the practice of the General Land Office with regard to railways bver the public lands and they are of coarse subject to modi-fication by any special provisions in a right-of-way act. DEPREDATION CLAIMS. Only ten depredation claims have been 6led in this office since my last annual reoort, which makes the total number now on 6le 7,995, aggregating in aiuonnt $25,672,559.82. The papers in 2,029 of these claims during the last fiscal year have been transmitted to the-Court of Glaims, pursuant to the act of March 3,1891 (26 Stats., 851). These added to the number so transmitted in the preceding year, 763, make a total of 2,792, which, adaed to the 1,454 claims which were submitted to Congress for its consideration, pursuant to the act of March 3,1885 (23 Btats., 376), leaves 3,749 claims in the files of this office and subject to its "care and custodyn and the further orders of the court, as provided by the act of March 3,1891. On the 30th day of June, 1892, as I am informed by the clerk of the |