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Show XXVIII REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. the use of the plots of land so relinquished, to the Northern Pacific: Railrod Company, its successors and assigns, for the uses andpurposes mentioned insaidagreement, butrequires thccompauy, rnaoonditionpre-cedent to the nser of the lands, to pay to the Treasurer of the United States,witbin 60 days from thepassage of the said act, the sum of $25,000, therebyappropriated, and to file with the Secretary of the Interior its writ-ten acceptance of the conditions of saih section. The acceptance above required has been filed in thisoflice, but I have no information as to the payment of the $25,000. Nmthern Puoijie Railroad, Jooko (Flatlbead) Reserve, Montana.-The Northern Pacific Railroad Company llaving applied for a right of way through the Jocko Reserve, in Montana, occupied by tbe coufederat,ed tribes of che Flathead, Upper Pend d'Oreilles, and Kooteuay Indians, un-derthe treaty of July 16,1855 (12 Stat., 975), Assistant Attorney-General McCammon was detailed by you on the 22d July last, to proceed to the Flathead Agency and negotiate with the Indians, under the treaty and acts of Congress in that behalf, for the extinguishment of their title to so much of the lands of their reservation as are required for the pur-poses of the Northern Pacific Railroad Colupany for the constructior~o f its road westwardly, through that reserve, according to certain plans filed by the. company in this department. Mr. McCammon has not yet, filed his official report, but I am informally advised by him that he succeeded in negotiating an agreement with the Indians, by whieh the lands necessary for a riglit of way 200 feet wide, and extending a dis-tance of about 53 miles across the reservation, with suitable grounds for station purposes, are relinquished to the United States upon pay-ment of $16,000, this slim to be deposited in the Treasury of the U&ed States to the credit of said confederated tribes upon ratification of tlle agreement by Congress, and to be expended for the benefit of the 111dians in such manner. as the Secretary of the Interior may direct. Provisionis also madefor the payment of $7,500 for ilnprownlents of individual Indians of said tribes falling within the boundaries of the lands so relinqniehed. The neceesary papers will be hereafter snboiit-ted to you for transmission to Congress. Atchison and Nebraska Railroad-I@ma Reaerue, Nebraska.-The agree-ment of June 18, 1881, with the Iowa Indians of Nebraska for a new right of way across their reserve to the Atchisou and lriebraska Railroad Company has been finally completed, and was approved by you on the 4th of August last. The quantity of laud taken by the compady amounts to six and one-half acres, for which they have paid at the rate of $25 per acre. Carson and Colorado Railroad- Walker River Reserue, Neuada.-On April 13,1880, the Carson and Colorado Railroad Company entered into aninformal agreement with the Pah-nte Indians for a right of way across the Walker River Reserve, which was set apart by Bxecotive order, March 19,1874. Under a misconcept.ion of the reqnirementsof the law |