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Show XX REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIR8 pared provided for the g r a ~o~f tt he right of way and the use of the plots of land so relinquished to the Northern Pacific Railroad Con~pany, its snccessors and assigns, for the uses and purposes mentioned in said &greement, but required the company, as a condition precedent to the use of tho lands, to pay to the Treasurer of tbe United States, within sixty day* from the passageof the act, the sum of $23,625 tberelw pro-vided to be appropriated, aud to file with the Secretary of the Interior its written acceptance of the conditions of said section. On the 16th January, 1883, t,he papers, approved by the Department, were forwarded to the President, and on the 19th of the same month were transmilted by him to Congress for consideration. On the same day the President's niessage with acwmpan~ingp apers mas referred to the respective committees on Indian affairs of both houses and or-dered to be printed. (See Sellate Ex. Doc. No. 44, Forty-seventl~ Gon-gress, second session.) Congress, howeve.r, adjourned without taking further action in the matter. A new bill will' be prepared and gubmit-ted to the Department for transmissiou to Congress at the ensuing session. Indian Baining 8chool, Carlisle, Pa.-Cumherhd Valley Railroad, Bouth Yennsyloania Railroad+Both the above-named railroad compa-nies are engaged in constructing lines of railroad whicli they propose shall pass through the Gariisle Military Reserration now occupied, by oonsent of the War Departn~entf, or Indian school purposes, claiming the right to enter the reservation under State grant. Under the eighth section of the first article of the Constitutio.~of the United States, Con-gress is empowered to exercise exclusive legislation L'orer all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-~ards, and other needful building&" The attention of the War Department and the honorable Attorney-Geueral having been called to the sul~ject, I am iuformed that proceedings have been taken to enjoin said railroad oompanies from proceeding with the constrttction of the roads through the property until such time as Congress shall take actiou iu the matter. Papago Reserve, Br~ma-Avizma Soutl&ernR ailroad.-In pursuauch of t,he act. of Gongress of August 5,1882, granting a nght of way to the Arizona Southern Railroad C o l n p a ~th~ro~u gh the Papago Reserve, sob-ject to the consent of the Indians occnp~ingth e same, and to the pag-ment by paid railroad company to the Secretary of the Interior of such compensation as should be fixed by him, to be expended by him for the benefit of the Indians, a council of the 1ndia.n~v as held under direction of the Delri~rtment on the 5th of March, 1883, at which the Indians signified their consent to a right of way for the railroad through their reservation on condition that the company pay into the hands of the Secretary of the Interior for their use and benefit the sum of $3,000, fence the road, and provide suitable safeguards at all road-orossi~lgs and cattle-passings within the limits of the reservation. |