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Show 40 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONEE OF' INDIAN AFFAIRS.. ding of the plat. The approval.of said plat is withheld, awiiting certain information desired by the Depa r t~enmt hich the Indian agent at the Ponca, Pawnee, etc., agency has been called upon to furnish. Lao du $lambeau Reservation, W&.-The Indians of the Lao du Flambeau Reservation, in Wisconsin, having assented to the provisions of the act of June 4 1888 (25 Stat., 169), granting to the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railway Company the right of way through their reservation, and having agreed to the amount of compensation they would accept for such right of may, the Department on May 3,1889, axed the aniount of such compensation in the sum agreed upon by the Indians, viz, $1,638.54. The amonnt has beet collected from the rail-way company and placed in the Treasury to the credit of the Commis-sioner of Indian Affairs. Nez PwcQ Reservation, Idaho.-Tbere is nothing additional to report in regard to the Oregon Railway and Navigation Oompany's right of way through theNez Per6 Rgservation, in Idaho, act of July 2S1 1888 , , . (25Stat,, 349). As stated i n the last annual report, authority waa granted the company (August 10,1888) to make preliminary surreys. , No maps have been filed for approval nor steps taken to obtain the con-sent of the Indians to the right of way, which oonsent, by the terms of the'act, is made a condition of the grant. . Pzlyallup Reservation, Wash.-The Indians of the Puyallup ~eserve- . tion, in Washington Territory, refused to give their consent to the right , of way for the Puyallup Valley R,ailway Company through said res-ervation', provided for in the act of July 24,1858 (25 Stat., 350). The second section of the act requires- That ths aconwot of the Indians to said xight of way upon the add Pnyallup Indian Reservation shall he obtained in such manner as the President of the United 8tstes may prescribe, before any right under tbia aot shall accrue to said company. The President by his order, dated February 2, 1889, prescribed the manner in which the required consent should he obtained, and the sub-ject was presented to the Indians in open council by their agent, as directed by the President, on March 12 following. After.de1ihcrating 'upon the question for several days they decided to refuse their consent by a rote of seventy-three against to forty-one in favor of the proposi-tion. The subject was fully reported to the Departmer~itn ofiice letter of June 11,1889. This action on the part of the Indians renders the right-of-way grant inoperative. SiletzReservation, Oregon.-No steps appear to have been taken by the Newport and King'# Valley Railroad Company to avail itself ofthe grant of right of way through the Siletz Reservation, in Oregon, as provided in the act of July 24, 1888 (25 Stat., 347). No uraps have been filed, no surreys made, nor has any action been taken to obtain the consent of the Indians as required by the act. Uintah and Unoompahgre Reservation, Utah.-The Utah Midland |
