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Show < ~ . ,~ . , . . , , , , . . . . . ~ , ~. . .. - - . .. , . . . ~ . . 38 REPORT OF THE COMMIS8IONER OF INDIAN. AFFAIR8. act of June 4,1888 (25 Stat., 167). The third section of the act pro-vides: That the President of the United States may, at his discretion, reqnire that the con-sent of the Indians to said right of wsy shall he obtained by said railroad company, in such manner as he mag prescribe, before any right under this sat shall scarue to mid company. The President prescribed rules for obtaining such consent June 30, 1888. The subject was presentedto the Indians agreeably with the PresidenVs order, and after having had ample t,imefor deliberation they refused almost unanimously to give their consent to the right of way. ~ This action on the part of the Indians renders the grant of no e8ect. Port Hall Reserve.-Amended maps and plats of the definite location of the right of way of the Ut'ah and Northern Itailway, act September 1, 1888 (25 Stat., 452). covering all the lands desired by said railway for right of way and for other railway purposes, were approveil by the Department April 8, 1889, and the sum of $'i,G21.04 has bee11 paid by $he railway company for the right of way. Saicl sum is iu full pay-ment, at $8 per acre, for all the land taken by the railway cotupally under the act aforesaid, except 149.94 acres taken in addition to the right of way within the town site of Pocatello, for which latter tl~e railway company is required by the terms of the act to pay $8 per acre, and alsoto pay an additiouBl sum equal to the average appraisal of each acre of town lots outslde of the portion so taken. Appraisers hare been appointed to make therequired appraisement,atld when their reportshall have been received and approved the railway company will be required . to make the additional payment. . Isdian Territory.-Neither the Fort Smith and El Paso Rai1wa.y . Company, the Kansas City and Pacific Railroad omp pan^, rlor the Paris, Choctaw and Little Rock Railway Company, appear to have taken any steps to avail themselvesof the right of way granted to them, respectively, through the Iodiau Territory (25 Stat., 162, 140, 205). , Additional waps of the definite location of the Kansas aud Arkansas Valley Railway, covering the fourth aucl fifth sections of 25 miles each of themain line, were approved by the Department on January 18 and Januiry 21, 1889, respectively; maps of the first .and fractional second sections of the branch line were a.lsoa,pprovecl on the latter datb. Nine plats of station grounds desired along the line, which were filed by the company, were returned for cert,a.in corrections, which wrre in-dicated in the letter of transmittal. On September 1, 1888, a draft for $4,148 was tendered by this company, and accepted as payment for right of way. A map of definite location of the third section of 25 miles of the Deu-nison and Washita Rai1wa.y was approved by the Department on Jm-nary 21, 1889, and under date of August 17, last,the company was called upon to make full payment of arrears due for right of way upon the line already constructed, a check for $500 being the only payment |
