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Show RhPOZT ' OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 45. procured an injunction against Agent Eells and the United States officers in command of the troops. Said injunction case is still pending in the higher courts. Menomonee Reservation, Wis.-Nention is made in the last annua3 report of the fact that by act of Oongress approved July 6, 1892 (27 Stats., 83), the Marinette and Western. Railway Company was granted a right of way throngh the above reservation. No maps of definite. location of the line of the road have yet been filed. Old Delaware Reservation, &us.-The Indian appropriation aot approved July 13, 1892 (27 Stats., 126), authorizes and directs the Attorney-General to institute necessary legal proceedings against the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Bailroad Company, its successors or assigns, for recovery of the amounts found by the Interior Department to be due from said railroad company, its successors or assigns, under the last paragraph of the second article of the treaty with the Dela-ware tribe of Indians of May 30,1860, and under the concluding clause of the third article of said treaty, and for damage done the said Indians in the taking and destruction of their property by said railroad com-pany. November 22 and December 14,1892, and June 14,1893, this office gave the Attorney-General, through the Secretary of the Interior,. such information from its files and records as was thought would be of use to him in instituting and maintaining said suit. This office is not advised as to whether the snit has been instituted. La Pointe, or Bad River Reaervatiou, Wis.-The eight right of way deeds fromindividiial patentees of lands on this reservation for right of way of the Duluth, Houth Shore and Atlantic Railway Company (formerly the Duluth, Superior and Michigan Railway Company), granting an easement only, mentioned in the last annual report, were returned to. this office by Acting Agent Lieut. Mercer October 14, 1893. October 20,1893, they were transmitted to the Secretary of the Interior with the request that they be submitted to the President for his approval. March 12,1894, they were returned to this office by the Secretary, bearing the approval of the President, dated March 9,1894. March 19,1894, they were sent to Acting Agent Mercer for delivery to the proper officer of the company and for collection of the compensation agreed upon in each particular case. Crow Reservation, Mont--January 22,1894, the ahtentioh of the office was called to a much-desired change in the location of the line of the road of the Big Horn Southern Railroad Compaey, l, section 3, near the agency buildings, and on that date the oompany submitted for approval a map of a portion of said section, showing the desired change. January 27,1894, the map was submitted to the Department and it was approved January 30,1894. February 3,1894, a hluelprint copy of the original was transmitted to Agent Wyman, of the Crow Agency, for the use of the agency. The Great Sioux Reservation, in the Dakotas.-January 19, 1894, the Department referred to this office for report a communication of Clark |