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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 99 right of way through their common lands, and also with certain indi-vidual members of said band holding lands in severalty under patent. Without approving these agreements the Department authorized the companyto proceed with the work of construction pending the prepara-tion of papers, etc. This was not done, however, and January 5, 189 1,. this office received a commnnication from its attorneys, claiming for the company a vested right in said right of way, and requesting author-ity to begin construction. March 20 following, the whole matttr was presented by this office to the Department, with the recommendation that the Assistant Attorney-General for the Interior Departmeut be re-qnqted to give his opinion opon the questions raised. The opinion was rendered that the company had no vested right in said right of way, and that the matter was before the Department and subject to its decision. Pursuant to this the office approved the agreement mith the band, and submitted it, with a blank form of relinqnishment, to he used by the individualpatentees in granting the right of way. Both of t,hrse mere approved by the Department, and the agent has been instroctc~d to see that no advantage is taken of the individual Indians b j the com-pany. The relinquishments of the iadividual patentees murt receive the approval of the Pr rsi~let~tot be nilill. Red Lrtke, Cass Lake, Winnebagoshish, and White O&k Point Reservations, IUinnesota.-October 23,1890, III~IIJSo f tile iletiuit~!l oci~tiooi~f tile Du:ath and Winnipeg Railway through these reservation8 were spprovad b) the Department,and councils of all the honils of Chippewa Indians in Mln. nesota were directed to be convened for the purpose of having them agree npou the amount of compensation to be paid for right of wily. The sum of $5 per acre for all lnnrl to be occupie 1 was agreed npou, . except in the case of the Winnebagoshish Reservation, whero the auln fixed was $10 per acre. May 25, 1890, the Department approved the said agreements and authorized construction.' Sale of Pocatello Town Lots, and Final Settlement of Utah and Northern Railroad Company for Lands in Pacatello.-The sale of the lots in thia tow11 site, which was segregated from the Port Hall Reservation by the act of Congress approved September 1,1888 (25 Stats., 453), has been made nnder the direction of the Commissioner of the General Office; but Special Agent Parker, of this Bureau, was instructed July 22 last to go there and remain during the sale, and to report to this office froin time to time as the sale proceeded. His reports state in sltbstance thtrt the results of the sale were satisfactory, aud that fair prices were re:11- ized. The act above referred to provides that the proceeds shall be deposited in the Treasur,y to tire credit of the Indians, after deductiqg *,he expenses of the survey, appraisement, and sale. The said act also granted right of way to the Utah and Northern ltailway Company aud provided that said Company should pay the sum of $8 per acre for all lands occupiea by it within said reservation, and, for a tract not to exceed 150 acres granted within the town of |
