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Show < REPORT OF THE COMMIBSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIItB. 33 of way for the' extension of its road through the Fond du Lac Reserva-tion, in Minnesota.* I n apparent disregard of certain co~~di tbnimsp osed by the act the company began the building of its road on the reservation and took therefrom timber neededin construction. By direction of the De?art-ment (January 23,1889), the Indian agentin charge of the reservation was instructed to prevent such trespass, and on the following day he re-ported by telegraph that the railroad company had ceased work. -Sub-sequently Agent Leahy, who in the mean time had succeeded Agent Gregory, reported that about 20 miles of the road had been constructed in aha-ncepf the fuifillment of any of the several conditions imposed by the enabling act, and that the Indians desired to know what arrange-ments had been made by the railroad company to pa1 them for the right of way. On receipt of that report this office (on August 26, 1889) in-structed the agent to prevent' the railroad company from resuming the work of construction on the reservation until the pre-requisite condi-tions of the act were fully co~nplied with. The attention of the pres-ident of the railway company was also called to the requirements ot the enabling act, and he was given full instructions as to the proper wurse for him to pursue in order to secure the benefits of the grant. On- September 6,1889, W. A. Barr, esq., attorney and secretary of said dompany, filed in the Department a mapin duplicate, showing the definite location of the line of the road through said reservation, to-gether withdepot and station grounds made from actual survey, with request that upon approval of the same a couucil of the Indians be called to agree upon and fix the compensation to be paid for the right of way, Btc. Said map haiing been referred to this office for repoit, it was re-turned to the Department September 13,1889, wit.h recommendation for its approval subject to the conditionsimposed by the enabling-act. Further recommendation was madein regard to obtaining the consent of the Indians to the amount of compensation they would accept from the railway company for the right of way, etc. On September 23 fol-lowing the Department returned the ,map to this office approved, and transmitted an order from the President prescrihiqg the manner for obtaining the required consent of the Indians, and on October 1 the agent at the La Pointe Agency was directed to convene a council of the Indians for that purpose agreeably with the President's order. (IREAT SIOUX REBERVATION, IN DIROTA. Chicago, Milwaukeeancl St. Paul Railway.-Dakota Crntral Railway.- The 164h section of theact of March 2,1889, entitled L'An act to divide a portion of the reservation of the Sioux Nation of Indians in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure the relinquishment ofthe Indian title to the remainder, and for other purposes" (25 Stat., 888), * Thia act was passed prior to the date of the last annnal report, but information thereof had not, at that time, reaohed this offioe. 9592 I N D I |
