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Show r COJIMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Maps of the definite loontion of the first section of the Denison and Washita Valley Railway Company were approved by the Department December 13,1887, and amended maps of the definite location of the second section were approved Janilary 7,1888. Seventeen plats of statiou grounds of the Smtheru Kansas Railway were approved by the Department October 25,1887. Naps oE definite location of 25 miles of the line of the ,Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway, which company was authorized to con-struct and maintain a railway, telegraph, and telephone line through the Indian Territory by the act of March 2, 1887 (24 Stat., 440), were approved by the Department Xay 18,1888. Lacduli'lambeauReserve, Wisconsin. TheMilwaukee, Lake Shore and WesternRailway Company was authorized by the Department,Novem-ber 29,1887, to proceed with preliminary surveys upon the Lac du Blam-beau Reserve in order to fix the line of a proposecl branch from Rhine-lander to Hurley, Wis., with the understanding that no work in the construction of the road should be begun or attempted upon the said reservation without further orders from the Department. Maps of def-inite location were filed in this officeand transmitted to theDepartment for approval Bebruary 3 and March 15,1858. The stipulation of the treaty of September 30,1854 (10 Stat., 1109), under which it was pro-posed to construct this road across the reserve reads as follows : All necessary roads, highways, an6 railroads, the lines of which may run through any of the reaerved traots, shall have the right of wag through tho aome, compeoss-tion being made therefor as in other oesea. On April 26,1888, the Department decided that this treaty stipula-tion was not sufficient tomarrant the Department in granting authority for the construction of the road, and that the right to cross the Lac du Flambeaa Reservation must be obtained from Congress. The requisite authority was asked of Congress, and on June 4,1888, the *resident approved an act (35 Stat., 169, and page 328 of this report) granting to said company the right of way desired. July 30,1888, the Department approved the map of delinite location, and on August 2,1858, transmitted the order of the President, of date August 1,1888, as to the manner of secoring the consent of the Indians to the provisions of said act. The agent has been instructed to sub-mit the matter to the Indians, as required by said order, but their con-sent in regular form has not yet been secured. Nez .Percd Reserve, ldal~o Territory. An act grantirrg to the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company the right of way through this res. ervation became a law without t,he approval of the President Julj 24, 1885 p6 Stat., 349, and page 33'7 of this report). The right of way granted is for the extension of the railroad of the above company from a point on the western boundt~ryo f the reservation on the Clear Water River, in an easterly direction, following the valley of said river alld the south fork tliereof, and thence iu a generally southerly and easterly di- 12798-1ND 88--iv |