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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 49 requested to dimt the United States attorney for the district of Min-nesota to institute action jn the proper United States court, on behalf of the Indians, to enforce payment from the company. October 4,1894, the Attorney-General stated that the papers had been sent to the United States attorney for Minnesota, with instructions to institute action. Through the chairman of the Chippewa Commission, on January 25, 1895, the company submitted a proposition to compromise with the Indians on the basis of $2.50 per acre for the land taken for right of way and station purposes. February 6,1896, the papers were sub-mitted to the Department with aview to their being sent to the United States attorney for Minnesota for such remarks as he saw fit to make. About the 1st of March the papers were returned to this office, through the Department of Justice. The United States attorney was inclined to favor the oompromise. March 26,1896, the papers were sent to the acting agent of the La Pointe Agency, in charge of the Fond du Lac Reservation, for submission to the Indians. May 23,1896, the acting agent reported that the Indians were unwilling to oompromise for less than $25 per acre. May 28,1896, the papers were returned to the Department with a view to their being sent to the Attorney-General for further action by the Department of Justice. Devils Lake Reservation, N. Dak., Jamestown and Northern Railway.- The last annual report referred to the fact that this company had never paid for its right of way through the above reservation. A full history of this case is printed in House Ex. Doc. No. 3, Forty-eighth Congress, second session, and Senate Ex. Doc. No. 16, Forty-ninth Congress, first session, to which attention is invited. On a number of occasions this office has recommended that Congress ratify the agree-ment entered into July 28,1883, between the company and the Indians; but no final action has yet been taken. The following railway companies mentioned in last year's report have since then filed no maps of definite location of their respective roads: Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Southwestern, through Indim and Okla-homa Territories. Act of December 21, 1893 (28 Stat. L., 22). Gainesville, Oklahoma and Gulf, through Indian Territory. Act of February 20,1893 (27 Stat. L., 465). Hutchimon and Southern, through Oklahoma and Indian Tenitory. Acts of August 27,1894 (28 Stat. L., 505), and February 3,1892 (27 Stat. L., 2), and September 26,1890 (26 Stat. L., 485). Arkansas, Texas and Mexican Central, through Indian Territory. Act of Augnst 4,1894 (28 Stat. L., 229). Porest aity and Sioux Ci@, through Sioux Reservation, S. Dak. Act of February 12,1895 (28 Stat. L., 653). Gila Talley, Globe and Northern, tlirough San Carlos Reservation, biz. Act of Februq 18,1895 (28 Stat. L., 665). lm 9 6 4 |