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Show These adtlitional deeds were made necessary by a slight change in the location of the road. August l(i the Secretary of the Interior approved the amended map of defiuite location showing the change referred to in the deeds. This chauge in location affected but two allotments in the northwest quarter of sectiou 25, township 51 north, range 4 west. Sioux Reservation, 8. Dak.-Clbicago, Milwaukee and St. Pad Railway 0onapany.-By act of Oongress of June 25,1898 (30 Stats., 748), the Seo ~e t a ryof the Interior is authorized and directed to return and refund to the above-named company the sum of $15,335.76, deposited by the company with this Department in payment for right of way and depot grounds through certain lands which were afterwards ceded to the United States, and which lands the company claimed that it had never secured or used. CONDITIONS TO BE COMPLIED WITH BY RAILROAD COMPANIES. Iu the construction of railways through Indian lands a systematic complianoe with the conditions expressed in the right-of-way acts will prevent much unnecessary delay. I therefore quote the requirements, which have been stated in previous reports. Each company should file in this office- (1) A copy of its articles of incorporation, duly certified to by the proper officers nnder its corporate seal. (2) Map8 representing the definite location of the line. In the absence of any special provisions with regard to the length of line to be reprasented upon the maps of definite location, they should be so prepared as to represent sections of 25 miles aaeh. If the liue pasea through surveyed land, they should showitslocstionaoou-rately acaording to the sectional ~ubdivisionso f the survey; and if through unsur-veyed land, it should be oarefillly indicated with regard to its general directionand the natural objeota, f m s , etc., along the route. Each of these maps ahonld bear the affidavit of the chief engineer, setting forth that the survey of the route of the company's road from to --, a distmee of -miles (siving ter-mini and distance), was made byhim (or nnderhisdireotion), as chief engineer, under suthority of the company, an or between certain dates (giving the same), and that woh survey ia mcnmtnly represented on the map. The affidavit of the chief engi-neer must be signed by him officidly snd verified by the oenificntes of the president of the company, attested by its saoretery under its ooworate ~sesl,s etting forth that t.ho pcrson signing the sffldarit wsa either the chief engineer or wns employed for the purposa of makiug auch survey, whicll Tas done under the authority of the company. Farther, that the line of route so surveyed and represented by the map was adopted by the calupany hy 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 - mile8 (giving tho termini and diatanoe), and that the map has been prepared to be filed for the approral of the Secretmy of the Interior, in order that the companymay obtain the benefits of the act of Congress approved - (giving date). (3) Separate plats of ground far atstion pnrposes,in addition to right of way, should be filed, and snoh groonda should not be represented npon the maps of defi-nite location, but should be marked by station numbers or otherwise, so that their exact location can be determined npon the maps. Plats of station grounds should bear thesame hEdavits and oertificrutae as maps of definite loostion. All maps presented for approval should be drawn on traciug linen, the scale not leas thau 2,000 feet to the inch, and should bc filed in doplioate. |