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Show - - - 1 FIFTY-SEVENTH ABBUAL REPORT OF rection to the eastern boundary of the reservation ; also from a point on the northern boundary of the reservation, on Potlack Creek, in Sec. 16, T. 37 N., R. 3 W., by may of Potlack Creek to the Clear Water River. No rights are to accrue to the company before the consent of the In-dians for the construction of the road is obtained in such manner as tbe Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. Authority has been grantell the company to make preliminary purvers. Puyallup Reserve, Wmhington Territory. By an act which became a law without the approval of the President July 24,1888 (25 Stat., 350, and page 338 of this report), the Puyallup Valley Railway Company i~ granted a right of way through this reservation, beginning on the uorth-western boundary of the reservation, uear the city of Tacoma, running thence through the reservatioil to the southeast boundary thereof, and thence to the town of Sumner. Permission has been granted the com-pany'to make a prelimina1:v survey of the proposed line. Tlle application of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company to con-struct a spur 1,225 feet long, with right of way of convenient width through the western part of the Pugallup Reservation, was submitted to the Departu>ent Angust 24,1S8R, with the rli~estionw hether the right toconstruct saidspurwooldnothave to be obtained from Congress. This question arose in view of the fact tha,t it had been deemed necessary to obtain the authority of Congress for the right of way of the Northern Pacific 12ailroad, wherever it had been located and constructed through any other Indian reservation, and also in view of tlie decision of the De-partment, already referred to, which was made in the case of thc ap-plicatiot~ o f the blilanukee, Lake Shoreand Western Railway for right of way through the Lac du Flambeau Reserve. The Department de-cided that right of way across the Payullop reserve coul~lb e granted the Northern Pacific Itailroad only by authority of Congress. 8<letz Reserve, Oregon. An act which became a law without the all-proval of the President Jnly 24,1888 (25 Stat., 317, and page 336 of this report), grants the right of way to the Nemport and King's Valley Rail-road Company through this reservation, beginning at a point on tho easterly line thereof, where Rock Creek crosses the same, and running thence westerly down the valley of Rock Creek and the valley of Siletz Itiver to the wester11 boundary of said reservation at or near the south-west corner thereof. The act reqdires the assent of the Iodiaus before any right thereunder can accrue to the compa,ny. Uintah and Uncompahgve Reser~esU, tah. No report has been received regarding the preliminary surveys for the Utah Midland Railway which was granted a right of way by act of March 3, 1887, and no action has been taken in the matter since the date of the last annual report. Legislation in regard to railroads other thau those mentioned is now pending in Congrcss, as follows: Devil's Lake Reserve, Dakbta, A hill prel~areil iiti this office is vend-ing in the Senate (No. 1228) granting a right of way to the Jaroestowll |