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Show a REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 47 land, it should be carefully indicated with regard to its general direc-tion and the natural objects, farms, etc., along the route. Each of these maps should bear the affidavit of the chief engineer, setting forth that the survey of the route of the company's road from- to -, a distance of - miles (giving t,ermini and distance), was made by him (or under his direction), 9s chief engineer, under authority of the company, on or between certain dates (giviug the same), and that such survey is accurately represented on the map. The affidavit of the chief engineer must be signed by him offiuially and verified by the certificates of the president of the company, attested by its secretary nuder its corporate seal, setting forth that the person signing the affi-davit was either the chief engineer or was employed for the purpose of making such survey, which was done under the authority of the company. Further, that the lint: of route so surveyed aurl represented by the map mas adopted by the company by resolution of its board of directors of a certain date (giving the date) as the definite location of the line of road from- to -, a distance of - miles (giving termini and distance), and that the map has been prepared to be filed for the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, in order that the oom-pany may obtain the benefits of the act of Congress approved - (giving date). (3) Separate plats 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 location, but should be marked by station numbers or othervise, so that their exact location can be determined upon the maps. Plats of station grounds should bear the same affidavits and certificates as maps of definite location. A11 maps presented for approval should be drawn on tracing linen, the scale not less than 2,000 feet to the inch, and should be filed in duplicate. These requirements follow, as far as practicable, the published regu-lations go~erningth e practice of the General Land Office with regard to railways over the public lands, and they are of course subject to modification by any special provisions in a right-of.way act. LOGGING BY INDIANS. Menomonee Reservation, Win.-On the 21st of September, 1893, this office received the following letter from Thomas H. Savage, agent ot Green Bay Agency, Wis., in regard to wasteful cutting of pine on the Menomonee Reservation: I have the honor to state that 6th superintendent of logging and myself have reoently viaited and examined s, considerable portion of the pine lands cut over in the past three winters and find that there is now not leas than 20 per oent of the original amount of pine left atanding on the lands supposed to be out. I am oredit-ably informed that during the logging season each year the late superintendent gave order8 to the Indians that no tree that had the slightest defeat should be out, and to out no Norwaypine. Theresult of theseordersisssstatedabove, thusleaving |