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Show 66 REPOItT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Denison and TVas71ila Valley Railroad 0omnpany.-On March 6, 1893, the compmy teudered a draft for $325 in paylnent of the annual tax of $15 per mile for 10 mile.., of its road, all that mas constructed up to t 6 a t date (from tlre fift,iet11 to the sixtieth mile according to the maps of d e ~ ~ i ltoeci ~tiono n Lile in this oftice), from date of co~~rpletioonf conslsnctiou, Jnly 1, 1889, to January 1, 1893. On Septeuiber 2, 1893, the company teudererl a draft in payment of said al~nualt ax for $75, for period fro111 January 1, 1803, to close of fiscal year ending June 30, 1893. OTIIXR INDIAN I113SEI:VATIOSS. De.d's Lake Reservation, N. Dak.-The last annual report referred to the fact that the Jalnestown a;nd Nortl~ern Rdlway Company had never paid for its right. of way tl~ronght he above reservat,io~~A. full history of this case ie prir~tediu House Ex. Doc. No. 3, Forty-eigl~tl~ Co~rgress,s ecoud sessio~~au, d Sellate Ex. 1)oc. NO. 16, Forty-ninth Congress, first session, to ml~ich attention is invited. On a number of ocaa>;ionst his office has recommended that Corlgress ratify the agree-ineut entered into July 28, 1883, betweenthe com~anyan d the Iudians; but 110 final action bas yet been taken. Red Cliff Reservation. is.-1n the last aui~ual report will be found tlre l'krcts ill relation to t11e attempt of the Ra?@e.eM, Lake Slhore and $$'esrern Rf~ilroadC on~panyt, o secnre a right of way across the above reservatio~a~lo ng and over the sa.z;le liue or route previously adopted by tile BayJteld lTilrfior and Great 14'estermz Railroad, Contpany; adso the fact that under date uf June 28,1892, the Depart~~iegnatv e prefer-ence to the Bayfield Uarbor a116 Great West'ern Railway Co~npanyb y reason oE priority of location of survey bf route a ~ r dap plication for approval of map of detinite location. septe&ber 28, 1892, the Presi-deut approved nine deeds for right of way of the latter road through the patented tracts of land on the reservation. The deeds were trans-mitted to the %gent of the La. Pointe Ageucy, for delivery to the com-pany, on October 17, 1892. The map of definite location of the road tbrongh the reservation mas approved by the Secretary of tlie Interior on October 3,1892. Me~omonee Reservation, Wis.-Mention is made in the last a~mual report of the fact that by act of Corlgress approved July 6,1892 (27 Stat., 83), the ~Ifarinettea nd. Western Railway Company was grauted a right; of may thro~ighth e above reserva.tion. No map8 of defiuite loca-tion of the litre of the road have yet been filed. Olil Delaware Reservation, Kans.-The Ii~dian appropriation, ,act ap. proved July 13, 1892 (27 Stat., 1 2G), authorizes aud directs the Attorney-General to institut,e necessary legal proceedings against the LeavenwortA, Pau5mzee and Wes2ern Railroad C&npatly,.its suc-cessors or assigns, for recovery of the amouots fonnd by the Interior Departurer~t to be due from said railroad compalty, its snccessors or assigns, under the last paragraph of the seoolrd article of the |