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Show 74 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. I respectively, approved the proceedings of the Omaha aud Wiunebago Indians, both tribal and individnal, consenting to the construction of the road through tbe reservations and through the allotted tracts. The total damages for right of way throngh tribal lands of the Winne-bag0 Reservation amounted to $320.25; damages for right of way through tribal lands on the Omaha Reservation amounted to $276.85. Damages for right of way through individual alloCments were to be paid directly to the several allottees. Colville Reservation, Wash.- Washingtom Improvement and Development Conqa*y.-By act of Congress approved June 4,1898 (30 Stats., 430), the above-named company was granted right of way through theOolville Reservation, beginning at a point on the Columbia River near themouth of Sans Poil River; running thence in a northerly direction to a point iu township 37 north, of range 32 east, Willamette meridian; thence north-erly to a point near the mouth of Curlew Greek; thence northerly to the international boundary line between British Colombia and the State of Washington, subject to the usual conditions. Three maps of definite location of the company's line of road through said reservation, com-menoix~ ga t the southerly end of Curlew Lake and extending in a gen-eral southerly direction to the Columbia River near the mouth of Sans Poil River, have been approved by the Department. CONDITIONS TO BE OOXPLIED WITH BY RAILROAD COMPANIES OPERATING UNDER SEPARATE ACTS OF CONGRESS. In the construction of railways througl~ India11 lands a systematic compliance with the conditions expressed in the right-of.way acts will prevent much unnecessary delay. I therefore quote the requirements, which have been statedin previous reports. Each company should file in this ofice: (1) A oopy of its articles of incorporation, duly certified to by the proper offioera under its corporate seal. (2) Maps representing the definite looation of the line. In the absence of any speoitllproqisions with regard to the length of line to be represented upon the maps of definite location, they should be ao prepared as to represent sections of 26 miles enoh. If the line passes through surveyed hnd, they should show its location aoou-rstely according to the sectional subdivisions of the survey; and if through unsur-veyed land, it should be carefully indicated with regard to its general direatition and the natural objects, farms, eto., along the route. Each of these mapa should bear the affidavit of the chief engineer, setting forth that the survey of the route of the oompanp's road from -t o -, s distanoe of -miles (giving tsrmini and distance), was made by him (or nuder his d~reotion), as chief engineer, under authority of the company, on or between certain dates (giving the same), and that mchsurvey isaoourately repreaentedon themap. The affidavit of the chief engineer must he signed by him officially and verified by the certificate^ of the president of the oomprsny, attested by its secretary under its corporate seal, setting forth that the person signing the affidavit ww, either the chief engiueer or was employed for the purpose of making suohsurvey, which waa done under the authority of the company. Further, that the line of route so surveyed and represented by the map was adopted by the company by resolution of its hoard of directors of a certain d ~ t (eg iving the |