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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 101 to act with and for the allottees in negotiating amicable settlements with the company for right of way through their respective allotments. November 28,1899, the Department approved the schedule of damages for right of way through the lands of the Indians as assessed by Agent Harding. The total amount of the assessment was $1,720.86. Decem-ber 1 the company tendered a draft in said amount as payment in full of the damages assessed. December 6 the draft was indorsed, payable to the order of Agent Harding, and he was directed to collect thesame and to pay the proceeds to the allottees rightly entitled thereto. February 5,1900, Agent Harding submitted a schedule of receipts showing the payment of damages to the allottees. Leech Lake Reservation, Minu.-Bvainerd amd Northern. Minnaota Railwag Company.--October 10,1899, the Department approved the schedule of appraisement of damages for rignt of way of the above-named company through the Leech Lake Reservation, Minn. The price per acre for both tribal and allotted lands was placed at $7. The tribal damages amount to $39.76. The total damages were $241.90. October 14 the company was called upon to make payment of this amount to this office. The amount assessed in behalf of the individual Indians was paid direct to Acting Agent Mercer, of the Leech Lake Agency, and by him was distributed among the Indians entitled thereto. October 17, 1899, the company submitted a draft for 839.76 in payment of the tribal damages. November 27 Acting Agent Mercer submitted a schedule of receipts showing the payment of damages to the individual Indians. Colville Reservation, Wash.1 Washkgton Impovmt and Devel-opment Conupany.-Mention is made in the last annual report of the approval by the Department of three maps of definite location of the company's line of road through said reservation, commencing at the southerly end of Curlew Lake and extending in a general south-erly direction to the Columbia River, near the mouth of Sans Poi1 River. November 27,1899, the Department approved two maps of definite location showing the remainder of the line of the road through the Colville Reservation. The line of road as shown upon said maps commences at the southerly end of Curlew Lake and extends in a gen-eral northerly and northwesterly direction to the international bound-ary line between the United States and British Columbia, a distance of 30.98 miles. No action has been taken in the matter of settlement of damages for right of way of the company through the reservation. SEMINOLES IN FLORIDA. Under the several annual appropriations for that purpose, the fol-lowing lands have been purchased for the use of the Seminole Indians in Florida: From the Plant Investment Company: Sec. 25, T. 47 S., R. 32 E.; secs. 23, 25, and 35, T. 48 S., R. 32 E., 2,560 acreil, for $1,600. |