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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXV This agreeme& was ratified by act of Congress approved July 3,1882, section 3 of which provides for the grant of right of way and the use of the plots of land so relinquished to the Utah and Northern Railroad Company, its successors and assigns, for the purposes set forth in the agreement, but requires the company, as a condition precedent to the use of the lands, to pay to the Treasurer of the United States, wit,l~iru ninety da.p from the passage of the act, the said sum of $6,000 thereby appropriated, and to file with the Secretary of the Interior its written acceptance of the conditions of said section. These requirements have been complied with by the company, and I am infor~ned by the Secre-taryof theTreasury that the $6,000 have been deposited with him. The Utah and Northern Railroad Company has since'assigned its rights ac-. quired under said act of Congress to the Oregon Short Line Railway Compa~~y. Atlantic and Pacific Railroad-Indian Territory.-Under authority of an act of Congress approved July 27, 1866 (14 Stat., 292); the severat treaties uegotiated during the same year with the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws and Chickasaws, and Seminoles, providing for an east and west and anorth and south railroad through their respective countsies ; and the decision of Hon. Secretary Cox, dated May 21,1870, approved by the President May 23, 1870, and the decision of your immediate pre-decessor in office, dated March 31, 1882; the construot~iou of the At-lantic and Pacific Railroad westward from Viuita, Clierokee Nation, through the Indian Territory, which had been ~uspendedf or some Fears past, has been resumed. Under date of March 27, 1882, the company entered into an agree-ment with the CherokeeNation for the purchase of materials required in the construction and repairs of the road in the Cherokee conutrx, under the provisions of the Cherokee laws in relation to such pnrcba,ses ; also for thc settlement and adjustment by the conrts and laws of said nation of all questious for da.ma,ges to poperty. The company has also filed a new bond of same date iu the SUUI of $500,000, payable to the order of the Secretary of the Interior, ill trust for the several nations and tribes of 111diaus owning or occupying the lands of the Indian Ter-ritory, conditioned for the faithful performance of the obliga.tions im-posed on said con~panyb y the act of.Congress of July 27, 1866, and in other particulars for the protection of the Indians. Bond and agree-ment mere approved in the department Apri: 3,1882. The act of Congress, July 27,1866, authorizes the Atlautic and Pacific Railroad Company to construct "a branch hom the point at which the road strikes the Canadian River eastwardly along the most suitable route as selected, to a poiilt on the western boundary line of Arkausas at or near the town of Van Buren." The map of location of the branch road from t,he point on the main line at which it strikes the Canadian River, eastwardly to Van Buren in Arkansas, shows the line of route to be as follows: From its junction wit.h the main line as above, down the |