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Show REPORT OE! THE C091MISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 99 houses and elevators to facilitate the convenient receipt and delivery of freight, so long as the full exercise of the franchise granted is not interfered with and a free and safe passage is left for the carriage of freight and passengers. March 31,1900, the Department approved the plat showing the lands selected by the company for station purposes in the N. +of sec. 1, T. 33 N., R. 3 E., Boise meridian, said station grounds being located on the 10-mile section between the forty-second and fifty-second mileposts of the main line of the road. April 3,1900, thk Department approved the map of definite location of a portion of the Lapwai blanch from mile 12 to mile 17.923. April 23,1900, the Department approved the map of definite location of a portion of the Lapwai branch of the company's road from mile 17.923 to mile 28.651. June 6, 1900, the Department approved the plat showing the definite location of station grounds selected by the company upon the 10-mile section between the tweuty-seventh and thirty-seventh mileposts located in secs. 6 and 7, T. 36 N., R. 2 E., Boise meridian; also the plat showing the definite location of station grounds selected by the company upon the 10-mile section between the seventeenth and twenty-seventh mileposts located in secs. 33 and 34, T. 37N., R. 1 E., Boise meridian. June 19,1900, the Depart-ment accepted the relinquishment of the company of all its right, title, and interest acquired by reason of the approval on July 31, 1899, of a certain map of definite location of its line of road from mile 62.819 to the southeastern boundary of the reservation at mile 76.14, and approved an amended and corrected map of definite location showing the company's line of road through that portion of the former Nez Perc6 Reservation from mile 62.819 to the southeastern boundary of I the reservation, at mile 75.884, the line of definite location shown upon I the latter map lying along the south fork of the Clearwater River and up Three Mile Creek to the south boundary line of the reservation. The Department canceled and annulled the first-mentioned map and approved the latter map in lieu thereof. June 22, 1900, the Department approved the schedule of damages for right of way of the company through the allotments of 79 allottees and the lands of two institutions-the Presbyterian Church at Spalding and the Presbyterian Church at Kamiah-as assessed by Inspector Beede, the total amount of the assessment being $14,068.95. The negotiations, however, represented by said schedule did not include the entire line of the road through the former Nez Perce Reservation, but covered only the main line from the mouth of Big Potlatch Creek to the end of construction up to May 29,1900 (date of the report), and also only the first 12 miles of the Lapwai branch. This left the remainder of the main line and the remainder of the Lapwai branch to be covered by subsequent negotiations. July 9, 1900, the company, through its local attorneys, submitted to the office 8 draft for $14,068.95. July 13 this draft was indorsed |