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Show may obtain the benefits of the act of Congress approved - (giving date). (3) Separate plafs of ground desired for station purposes, in addition to right of way should be filed, and such grounds should not be repre-sented upon the maps of definite loeation, but should be marked by statior~n umbers or otherwise, so that their oxact location can be det,er-mined npou the maps. Plats of station gronnds should bear the same aftidavits and certificates a.s maps of definite location. All maps presented for approval should be drawn ou tracing linen, the scale not less than 2,000 feet to the inch, and should be filed in duplicate. These requirements follow, as fa,r as pract,icable, the published regula-tions governing tlm practice of the General Laud Office with regard to rnilmays over the public lands, and they are of course subject to modi-fication by any special ~~roviuioinns a right-of-way act. INDIAN DEPRE1)ATION CLAIMS. The act of Marc11 3,1891 (26 Stats., 851), provided that the exami-nation and investigation, by the Iiiterior Department, of Indian depre-dation claims sl~ould cease from that date, and conferred upon the Court of Claims jurisdictiorr and power to inquire into aud finally adjudicate, (1) such olai~ns as mere in favor of citizens of the United States, aud (2) all claims which had been examined and allowed, or were authorized to be examined, by the Interior Department,. It reserved the unexpended balance of the appropriation, "Investigating Indian depredatiou claims," for the payment of persons emp1oyed.M make the transfer of clailns and business to the court with a record of the same, :md for the proper care and costody of the papers and records remaining in this Bureau. It also provided that these cla,ims should be presented to the Court of Claims by patition witbiil three years after the act mas approved or be thereafter forever barred. Up to March 3: 1891, there had bee11 filed in this office 7,973 claims arising from Indian depredations. Pursuant t,o the act of March 3, 1885 (23 Stats., 3'iG), 1,464 of these claims had been presented to Con-gress, leaving 6,519 in the files, to vhich have since been added 25 new claims, making in all 6,202 claims transferable to the Court of Cla~ms, or a total of 7,998 claims ou record. Tl~nw ork clevolvi~~ugp or^' the Depredatio~l1 )ivision since March 3, 1891, has beeu. twofold; answering miscellameons correspo~~denopee r-tainiug to Indian depredations, and transmitting the papers in depre-dation claims, with reports thereon, to the Conrt of Claims. Under the first head, 004 lettershave been sent ont in an,sn.eri~~ign quiries of claimauts, attorueyn, a i ~ dot her interested parties. Under the second head, 393 commnuic:ttious from tbe Conrt of Cl;rims, inclosing 3,959 calls for papers and i~~formatiohlla, vc beeu received; in com~liance with which the papers in 2,684 clai~llsh ave been fun~ishedto the coiirt., |