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Show White Earth and other Chippewa Bmervations, Fbinnesota.-Duluth, Nuperior and Western Railway Company.-March 25, 1898, the Act. ing Secretary of the Interior approved two amended maps showing the definite location of the line of road of the above-named company through the Chippewa Reservation; and on the same date he approved an amended map of definite location of the line'of road through the White Earth Reservation. On April 23,1898, Hon. Darwin 9. Hall, Chippewa commissioner, and John H. Sutherland, esq., agent of the White Earth Agency, were instructed to determine the tribal dam-ages and to act with and for the allottees in determining the irldividual damages resulting from the location and construction of the road through the above.named reservations. Their report concerning the matter has not yet been received. St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway Company.-March 10, 1898, the Secretary of the Interior approved the map of definite locs, tion of the above-named oompany through the Chippewa Reserva-tion. On April 23,1898, Hon. Darwin 8. Hall, Chippewa commissioner, and John H. Sntherland, esq., agent of the White Earth Agency, were instructed to determine the tribal damages and to act with and for the allottees in determining the individual damages resulting from the location and construction of the road through the Chippewa Reserva-tion. Their report under said instructions has not yet been received. Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railway Company.-On February 2,1898, John H. Yutherland, esq., United States Indian agent of the White Earth Agency, was instructed to assist tho individual allottees of the Leech Lake Reservation, Minn., in negotiating with the above. named company for right of way through their allotted tracts. His report has not yet been received. San Carlos Reservation, Ariz.--Gila Valley, Globe and Northern RaiG way Company.-By act of Congress on January 13,1898 (30 Stats., 227, and p. 407 of this report), the above.named company was granted an extension until February 18, 1900, within which to constrnct its line of road through the San Carlos Reservation. On March 1,1898, the council proceedings of the San Carlos Indians, giving their consent to the constrnction of the road through the reservation, were approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and by the President on March 3. On March 7 the maps of definite location of the line of road through the reservation were approved by the Acting Secretary of the Interior. March 25 Acting Agent Rice, of the San Carlos Agency, by direction of the Secretary of the Interior, was instructed to pay the compensa-tion agreed upon between the company and the Indians to the male adults of the tribe of 14 years old and over, share and share alike. Red Cliff Reservation, Wis.-BayJield Barbor and (treat Weatern Rail-way Company.-August 13, 1898, the President approved two right-of- way deeds in thenature of an easement in favor of the aboveaamed oompany covering certain allotted lands on the Ited Olif Reservation. |