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Show REPORT OF TEE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXTII Cho~taw and Chickasaw Kations of Iudians in the Indian Territory, commencing at a point to be sele,cted by the company on the line of the Choctaw Nation, immediately contiguous to Sebastia.o~r Scott Counties, in the State of Arkansas, and running thence in a southwesterly diree-t, iou on the most direct and practicable route through the lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations in the direction of Paris, in the State of Texas, and to continue to or corrnect with a proposed road from the city of Paris aforesaid. This grant is made subject to t,he condition that, the said railway company shall pay quarter-annually to thenational treasurers of said nations, every year during the existe~lceo f the rights and privileges granted, to be used for the benefit of schools therein, the sum of $750, in the proportion of one-fourth to the Chickasaas and three-fourths to the Choctaws, with a proviso that if the general coun-cils of said nations, or either of t,hem, shall, within sixty days after the passage of the act, by resolution dilly adopted, dissent from the allow-ance provided for, md shall report the same to the Secretary of the Interior, then the compensation to be paid for theuses and grants in the act made for s ~ ~ dcihss enting tribe8 shall be determined by appraisers to be appointed ns in said act mentioned. The act, which is quite lengthy, 1.rorides for the'completion of the road a,nd telegraph within two years from the date of acceptance by the coulpany. It also contains various clauses aud stipulations for the pro-tection of the Iodians, and declares that failing certain conditions therein prescribed, the said compauy shall forfeit all rights thereunder, which, upon declaration and cor~senotf the Secretary of the Interior, shallinure to the Chicago, Texas and Mexican Central Railway Company upon like couditions as in said act mentioned; and upon its failure Do comply theremith, then the privileges granted to the Saint Louis and San Fran-cisco Railway Company shall apply to any other incorporated company that shall hare first obtained the approval of the President of the United States. Yorthe,.n Pacific Railroad-Crow Reserve, JFo?ztuna.--By an agreement dated August 22, 1881 (also referred to in my last annual report), the Crow Indians surrendered to the United States all their right, title, and interest in and to a strip of land 400 feet wide, extending from east to west across their reserration, containing about 5,384 acres, to be used by the Xorthern Pacific Railroad Company as a right of way and roadbed; also certain plots of land, aggregating 266 acres or thereabouts, for depot and station purposes. For the lauds so relinquished the United States agreed to pay to the Crow Indians $25,000, to be deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of said Indians upon ratification of the agreement by Co~~greasnsd necessary appropriation therefor, to be rx-peuded for the benefit of the Indians in such manner its the Secretary of the Iuterior may direct. This agreement was ratified by act of Congress approved July 10, IS*?, sectior13 of which provides for the grant of the right of trray, and |