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Show REPORT OF TIIE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 73 was thought, however, that the slight variations from the line of orig-inal location were not detrimental to the interests of the Indians. On the same date the Department approved one plat showing the definite location along the company's line of road within said reservation des-ignated ' I Wilkinson," in section 32, township 144 north, range 31 west. Leech Lake Reservation, Em.-Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railway Cornpan?/.-June 1,1899, the Acting Secretary of the Interior designated and appointed Capt. W. A. Mercer, acting agent of the Leach Lake Agency, to ascertain and determine tbe amount of dam-ages resulting to the Leach Lake Inrlims by reason of the location and construction of the road through the tribal lands of the reservation, and also to act with and for the individual allottees in negotiating with the company for right of way through allotted tracts, such appointment being in lieu of the appointment of John H. Sutherland, United States Indian agent of the White EarthAgency, made on February 2,1898. Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Mont.--Great Northern Railway Line (lessee of Western. Branch fit. Paul, Idinneapolis and Madoba Rail-way).- July 12, 1899, the Acting Seoretary of the Interior approved two plats of relocat,ion of two certain portions of the company's line of road within said reservation, as follows: 1. From a. point on said company's aonstruoted line, 29,513 feet westerly from the oenter of the croeaiog of Curlew Creek to s, point 49,110feet easterly fram the oenter of the orossillg of the north fork of the Two Medicine River, s. distance of 4.03 milea. 2. From a point 19,600 feet easterly from the center of the crosaing of the north fork of the Two Medicine River to a point 3,838.3 feat westerlg from said orossing, a, distrsnoe of 4.44 miles. Omahe. and Winnebago Reservations, Iiebr.-Omaha Northern Railway Company.-By act of Congress approved March 26, 1398 (30 Stats., 344, the above-named railway company was granted right of way through the Omaha and Winnebago reservations, Nebr., subject to the general conditions in such cases. December 8, 1898, the Secretary of the Interior approved the map of definite location of the line of road through said reservations; also two plats showing the definite location of station grounds along the company's line of road through said reser-vations. December 12,1898, the President directed that the consent of the Indians of said reservation to the provisions of the act granting the company right of way through the reservations should be obtained by convening councils of the chiefs and other leading men of the tribes, especially including all the allottees whose individual lands were crossed by the line of the road, the council to he called by the agent in charge of the Omaha and Winnebago Agency. On December 13, 1898, the Secretary of the Interior directed that the agent of the Omaha and Winnebago Agency should act with and for the individual allottees in determining the amount of damages that shall be paid them for right of way through the allotted tracts. On March 7, 1899, and March 10,1899, the President and the Secretary of the Interior, |