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Show RIGHT OF WAY FOR RAILWAY LINES. 663 REGULATIONS CONCERNING RIGHT OF WAY FOR. RAILWAY LINES (WITH TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE) THROUGH INDIAN LANDS. D~A~TMEONP TT HE IXTERIOB, OPFICE OF INDIAANF P A ~ , Wmhington, D. C., April 18, 1899. The following regulations sse reacribed under the act of March 2, 1899 (30 Stat. L, 990), gmnting right of wa g r a railway, telegraph, and telephone line through any Indian reaervation, lands%eld by any tribe or nation in Indlan Territory, lands reaerved for agency or other purposes connected with Indian Service, or allotted lands: 1. By said aet E right of way is y t e d "thmngh any Indian reaervation in any State or Territory, or through any and8 held by an Ind~sntr ibe or nation m Indian Territory, or thmugh any lands reserved for an Indian agency or for other pulpsea in connection with the Indian Service,,or through any lands which have e n al lot td in severalty to any individual Indlan under any law or treaty, but whch have' not been conveyed to the allottee with full power of alienation," to any railroad company organized under the lam of the United Statea or of any Spte or Territory. Permission to anmep or locate road.-2. No ra~lroad corn an is authonzed to survey or locate a line of road throughor acroas any of aid Panis until permission from the Secretary of the Interior has first %en obtained. 3. Any rai1ro.d company desir~ngtq obta~nsu ch permission must file its appliea-tion therefor in this office, for transmasLon to the Secretary of the Intenor. Such a plication should, in as particular a. manner as possible, describe the proposed line road within the lands named in this act, and must be.accompanied hy- Brat. A copy of ita articles of incorporation, duly certlfid to by the proper officer of the company under ita corporate seal, or by the secretary of the State or Territory where organized. Semnd. Acopy of the State or Temtorial law under which the company was organized, with the certificate of the governor or secretary of the State or Territory that the ssme is the existing law. Third. When said law dire& that the articles of wociation or other papers e n - nected t i t h the organization be filed with any State or Territorial officer, the certfi-a t e o f such officer that the same have been filed acoord~ngto law, wlth the date of the filing thereof. Fourth. When a company is operating in a State or Territory other than that in which it is incorpomted, the certificate of the pro er officer of the State or Territory is required that it has complied with the laws ofthat State or Territory governing foreign corporations to the extent required to entitle the company to operate in auch State or Territory. No forms are preacrihed for the above ortion of the proofs required, as each case must he overned to some extent by the Paws of the State or Territor Pi h 4he official statement, under seal of the proper officer, that t t e organimtion has ken completed; that the company is fully authorized to roceed with the con-struction of the road according to the existing law. (Form 1.f Sizlh. An affidavit by the president, under the seal of the company, showing the names and designations of its officers at the date of the filing of the proofs. (Form 2.) SeumUL. If certified copies of the existin? laws ding such corporations, and of new laws as passed trom time to time, he orwarde to t h ~osf fice b the governor or secretary of any State or Territory, a company organized in such state or Territory may file, in lieu of the requirements of the second subdivision of this parsgraph, a certificate of the governor or secretary of the State or Territory that no change has been made since a iven date, not later than that of the laws last forwarded. 4. If the above stowing has been made in connection with an application for right of way over the public lands under the general right-of-way act of March 3, 1875, a reference to the previous application will he sufficient. Preparation of mapa of location.-5. It is provided by the third section of this aet that "before the p n t of such right of way shall become effective a map of the sup vey of the line of mute of said road must be filed with and approved by the Secre tary of the Interior." 6. A11 maps of location presented for ap roval under this act should be filed with this oEce and should be drawn on tracingenen and in duplicate. 7. Where the line of road is greatly in excess of 20 miles, separatemapa should he filed in 20-milesections. 8. Where right of way is desired for spurs or short branch lines which will not greatly enlarge the size of the map, they may be shown on the same map with the |