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Show REPORT OB THE OOXMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 35 provisions of the act of March 2, 1899 (30 Stat., 325). The act of March 2,1899, was further amended by section 15 of the act of June 25,1910 (36 Stat., 855), by adding to section 1 a clause requiring each , and every applicant for a right of way under the act to stipulate as a condition precedent to the grant that it will construct and perma-nently maintain suitable passenger and fieight stations for the con-venience of each and every town site established by the Government along the right of way. The act of March 3, 1909 (35 Stat., 781), authorized the depart-ment to grant to railroad companies owning or operating limes in any Indian reservation, lands for reservoirs, material or ballast pits, or for the planting and growing of trees to protect the lines of rail-way. No grants have been made under the provisions of this law. Two applications are now pending before the office. By the act of May 6,1910 (36 Stat., 349), the provision of law last referred to was extended and made applicable to any lands which h a v ~be en allotted in severalty to any individual Indian or which have not been conveyed to the allottee with fall power of alienation. RbILROADS IN OKLAHOMA. All grants of rights of way and grounds for railway purposes in-volving Indian lands in Oklahoma are made in accordance with act of February 28,1902 (32 Stat., 43). The maps submitted under this act are not subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, but are filed in this office as a part of the permanent records of the Government. RAILROADS OUTSIDE OF OKLABO~4. Following is a summary of railroad rights of way and station grounds granted, affecting Indian lands outside of Oklahoma, for the fiscal year ended June 30,1910: Ariaona Eastern Railroad Company.-On April 7, 1910, the de-partment approved five maps showing location of 75.81 miles right of way of the Arizona Eastern Railroad Company across the Navajo Indian Reservation. T h i ~m as an amendment of a right of way along practically the same route which bad previously been approved to the Arizona and Colorado Railroad Company, the former com-pany having succeeded to the rights and interests of the latter. Dam-ages for the right of way are in course of adjustment. Chicago, Milwaukee a& Puget Sound Railway.-A schedule show-ing $3,668.05 damages to tribal lands and $1,210.65 to allotted lands of the Quinaielt Reservation was approved on December 1,1909, and payment of the amounts named was accepted. The rights of way had previously been granted on November 30,1908,4.155 miles, and on June 7,1909,9.433 miles. |