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Show 96 REPORT OF THE CO.MMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. \ . in a westerly direction through the reservation, and it is provided that nodght shall accrue to the comparly until the coqsent of the Indians - is ~btained. This office i~ not advised whether the company has yet undertaken to comply with the preliminary conditious.. GRANTS REFERRED TO IN PREVIOUS ANNUAL REPORTS. Blackfeet Reservation, Montana.-October 6, 1890; the President gave hie consent to the extension of the line of the St. Paul, ~Winneapolisa nd Nanitoba Railway (Qreat Nortker~cL ine) through this reservatiou nuder the power vested in him by act of May 1,1883 (25 Stats., 113), which ratified an agreement with theseIndiana, article VIII of which provides t h a t It is further agreed fLst whenever, in the opinion of the Presideut, the public iotor-ests require the construction of railroads or other highways, or telegraph lines, through any portion of either of the separate reservations established and set apart under the provisions of this agreement, right of way shall be, and is hereby, granted for soah purposes, under such roles. regulntions, limitstious, and reatrictiotrv as the Secretary af the Interior may prescribe; the compensation to be tixed by said Sao-retnry sod by him expended for the benefit of the Indians concerned. Accordingly, October 24,1890, the company was allowed to occupy a right.of-way strip not to exceed 150 feet in width, with an additioaal strip not exceeding 100 feet in width where heavy cnta or fills should occur. The additional land for station purl~osksw as limited to strips not to exceed in dimensions 200 feet in width by 3,000 feet in leogth. An approved bond in the penal sum of $25,000 was also required. Under date ot July 1 last the attention of the company was invited to the fact that the maps of definite location on file represented an area of land greater than the limit fixed, and an explanation of the matter was called for. Crow Reservation, Montana.-Five maps of the definite location of the Big Horn Southern Railway through this reserve have been ap-proved, except as to that portion which is within the Port Ouster mili-tary reservation. Inaccordance with the prooisionli of section 3 of the act of February la, 1890 (25 Stats., 660), which authorizes the Preside~~t to require the consent of the Indians theretoin such manner as he shall see fit to prescribe before any rights accrue to the railway compa~lyt, he President, June 30,1889, directed that such consent be obtaiued by convening a council of the cl~iefasn d other leading men. The apuroved maps of defiuite location above referred to were mailed to Agent Wp-man November 4, 1890, with full instructions to ascertain the wial~eso f the lndians as directed by the President, and also to see that satisfaa-tory settlement was made by the company with individual occupauts damaged by the propoued road. January 14 last the agent forwartled the report of the proceedings of the council held by him, stating that the maps of definite locatio~lw ere held in his office pending the co~n-pletion of the settlements to be made with individual occupants. |