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Show XL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONEE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. The Indians further agree that upon pagment to the Secretary of tlie Interior, for their use and benefit, of the sum of $8 per acre for each every acre of land of the reservation taken and used for the purposes of its road, the Utah and Northern Railway Oompany shall have a right of way not exceeding 200 feet in width from north to south through the reservation, with necessary grounds for stationand water purposes, ac. cording to maps and plats of definite location, to be filed hereafter by the company with and to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior. The papers will be laid before the Department in due season, for trans-mission to Congress. Gila river, Arizona.-By the act of Congress approved January li, 1887 (24 Stat., 361), the Mariwpaand Phmnix Railway Company, a cor-poration of Arizona, was granted a right of way through this reserva-tion, beginning at a point on the soiitherly line thereof, where the track of the Mariwpa and Phoenix Railway intersects said line; run-ning thence in a northeasterly direction by the most practicable route to the northerly line of the reservation in. the direction of Phoeuiu, Ariz. The provisions of the act, in so far as they relateto the pay-ment of damages to the Indians, the filing of maps of definite location, and bond, haye been fully complied with by the company, and the road is now in process of wnstruction, if not already built. Indkn'Territory.-At the second session of the Forty-ninth Oongress, the following additional railroail aots werepassea: An act granting the right of way through the Indian Territory to the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway, approved March 2,1887 (24 Stat., 446), and a,n act to authorize the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, approved January 24,1887 (24 Stat., 419). Maps of d&nite location of the Erst 50 miles of the main line of the Kansas and Arka;nsas Valley Railway (act approved June 1,1886,24 Stat., 'i3), to be constructed from Fort Smith in a northwesterly direc-tion through the India11 Territory to a point on the northern boundary line thereof, between the Arkansas river, in Cowley county, and tho Caney river, in Chantanqna county, Eans., have been approved by you, and appraisers to assess individual damages, as provided for in the at, have been severally appointed by the President, the railway wmpany, and the principal chief of the Choctaw Nation. The priuci-pal chief of the Cherokee Nation has been notified by this &ce to ap-point an appraiser, but hitherto has not replied, and the attitude of tkat nation appears so far to be one of determined hostility to the road. The road, however, is in process of construction. . On the 21st October, 1886, the r,eferees appointed by the President, under theprovi~ious of the Soathern Kansas Railway act approved July 4,1884 (22 Stat., 73), to appraise the value of the right of way, and |