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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 45 turn-outs, sidings, and extensions through such Territory as said com-pany may deem it to its interests toconstruct alongand upon the right of way and depot grounds herein provided for. No maps of definite loca-tion of the line of road have yet been filed for approval. Leech Lake md Chippewa reservations, Minn.-Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railway.-By act of Congress of February 24,1896, which became a law on that date without the approval of the President (29 Stat. L. ,p. 12, and p. 414 of this report), the above-named company was granted a right of way for an extension of its line of road through the Leech Lake Indian Reservation, commencing at apoint in the south line of said Indian reservation and extending northwesterly through section 11, of township 141, range 31, to a point in the wast line of said reservation in section 2; also through the Chippewa Indian Reserva-tion, in said State, commencing at a point in the south line of said Indian reservation, in township 142 north, of range 31 west, andextend-ing in a northwesterly direction from the terminus of the line as now constructed along the most feasible and practicable route, through township 143 north, of ranges 31 and 32 west, to a point in the west line of said reservation, with the right to load logs on said railroad at the points in said reservation where the same may run adjacent or con-tiguous to the waters of Leech Lake. No maps of definite lociteion of. the line of the road have yet been filed for approval. Colville Reservation, Wash-Columbia and Red Mowntain Railway.- By act of Congress approved March 6, 1896 (29 Stat. L., p. 44, and page424 of this report), the above-named company was granted right ot way through the Colville Reservation, Wash., commencing at a point at or near the Little Dalles, on the Columbia River, in Stevens County, in said State, and running thence in a northerly direction by the most feasible route to the international boundary line between the United States and British Columbia. No maps of definite location of the line of the road have yet been fled for approval. Winnibigoshish, Chippewa, White Oak Point, and Bed Lake reservations, Ifinn.-Duluth and North Dakota Railroad.-By act of Congress of April 14,1896, which became a law on that date without the approval of the President (29 Stat. L., p. 92, and page 435 of this report), the above-named company was granted right of way through the Winni-higoshish, Chippewa, White Oak Point, and Red Lake Indian reser-vationg in the State of Minnesota, such right of way to he 50 feet in width on each side of the center line of said railroad; and said com-pany may also take land adjacent to such right of way for station bmldings, depots, machine shops, side tracks, turnouts, and water stations, not to exceed in amount 200 feet in width and 3,000 feet in length for each station, to the extent of one station for every 10 miles of road constructed within the limits of said reservations. No maps of definite location of theline of road have yet been filed for approval. Sac and Fox and Iowa reservations, Kans, and 1Pebr.-Atchison and Tebraska Railroad a ~ tdhe Chioago, Burlington and Quitbog, Railroad, |