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Show dviii FIFTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF granted to the Billings, Clark's Fork and Cooke City Railroad Com-pany for the construction of a road and branch through the western part of the Crew Reservation, beginning at a point on the northern line of said reserve at or near where Clark's Fork empties into theYellowstone River, and theor* following in a southerly direction to a point at or near whew said Clark's Fork crosses the southern line of said Crow Reserve; also a branch line oE railway to be constructed for a distance oE 10 miles up Bear Creek, and commencing from the point where said Bear Creek empt ie~in to said Clark's Fork. The order of the President prescribing regulations in regard to ob-taining therequisite conseut of the Indians was issued June 30, 1888. On the 6th of October, 1887, the bonds and maps of definite location of the Rocky Fork and Cooke City Railway Company's right of way through thb reserve, acquired under the act of March 3,1887 (24 Stats., 545), wereapproved by the Department, and the company was author-ized to proceed with the construction of its road on the reserve. Port Hall Reserve, Idaho. An act to itocept and ratify an agreement made with the Shoshone and Bannack Indians for the surrender and relinquishment to the United States of a portion of the Fort Hall Reser-vation, in the Territory of Idaho, for the purposes of a towu site, and also for the grant of a right of way through said reservation to the Utah and NorthernRailway Company. This was approved by the President September 1,1888 (25 stat;, 452, and page 340 of this report). In&nm Territory. During the last session of Congress the following railroad acts were passed : An act to grant to the Fort Smith and El Paso Railway Company a riglit of way through the Indian Territory (25 Stat., 162), which bemme a law without the approval of the President; an act to authorize the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company to con-struct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, approved February 18,1888 (25 Stat.,35) ; an act granting a right of way to the Kansas City and Pacific Railroad Company through theIndianTerritory, approved May 14,1888 (25 Stat., 140); and an act atithorizing the Paris, Choctaw and Little Rock Railway Company to construct and operate a railway, telegraph and telephone line through the Indian Territory (25 Stat., 205), which became a law without the approval of the President. The test of these laws will be found on pages 290,320,324 and 330 of this report. A bill granting the right of way to the Fort Smith, Paris and Darda. nelle Railway Company toco~lstrucat nd operate a railroad, telegraph and telephone line from Fort Smith, Ark., through the Indian Territory, to or near Baxter Springs, Kans., was vetoed by the President, July 26, 1888. Maps of definite location of the second and third sections, of 25 miles each, of the Kansas and Arkimsas Valley Railway, were ap. ' proved by the Department June 30 and October 1,1887, re~l~ectirely, and those of the fourth section were tra~rsmittecl to the Depsrtmunt for approval June 11,1888. |
