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 448 FORTYNINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 3l9. 1887. right of appeal to the courts upon the same terms, conditions, and re- Award to be i¤ qnirements as therein provided : Provided further, That the amount Y‘l“?‘° °f °°mP°”` awarded or adjudged to be paid by said railway company for said dis- °°`Xg;;,alm,,ta] senting nation or tribe shall be in lieu of the compensation that said ` nation or tribe would be entitled ’to receive under the foregoing provision. Said company shall also pay, so long as said Territory is owned and occupied by the Indians, to the Secretary of the Interior, the sum of fifteen dollars per annum for each mile of railway it shall construct in said Territory. The money paid to the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of this act shall be apportioned by him, in accordance with the laws and treaties now in force between the United States and said nations or tribes, according to the number of miles of railway that may be constructed by said railway company through their lands: Provided, Right to tax re- That Congress shall have the right, so long as said lands are occupied served. and possessed by said nation or tribe, to impose such additional taxes upon said railroad as it may deem just and proper for their benent; and any Territory or State hereafter formed through which said railway shall have been established may exercise the like power as to such part of said railway as may lie within its limits. Said railway company shall have the right to survey and locate its railway immediately after the passage of this act. · Maps to be filed Sec. 6. That said company shall-cause maps showing the route of its
 * 1 S°°'?*°“`Y °f located line through said Territory to be filed in the office of the Secre-
 * ‘,;Q’€f:“*°“°r_ ““d tary of the Interior, and also to be tiled in the office of the principal

‘chief of each of the nations or tribes through whose lands said railway may be located; and after the tiling of said maps no claim for a subsequent settlement and improvement upon the right of way shown by said [`rodeo. maps shall be valid as against said company: Provided, That when a map showing any portion of said railway company’s located line is filed _G¤di¤;£ ¤¤¤5’ b°· as herein provided for, said company shall commence grading said Km °“ ming “'“P“‘ located line within six months thereafter, or such location shall be void, and said location shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior in sections of twenty-tive miles before construction of any such section shall be begun. _ _Employc5~>st¤r¤· Sec. 7. That the officers, servants, and employees of said company °‘d° "¤ "gb* °f necessary to the construction and management of said road shall be w°y' allowed to reside, while so engaged, upon such right of way, but subject to the provisions of the Indian intercourse laws, and such rules and regulations as may be established by the Secretary of the Interior · in accordance with said intercourse laws. Litigation Sec. 8. That the United States circuit and district courts for the western district of Arkansas and the district of Kansas, and such other courts as may be authorized by Congress, shall have, without reference to the amount in controversy, concurrent jurisdiction over all controversies arising between said Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway Company and the nation and tribe through whose territory said railway shall be constructed. Said courts shall have like jurisdiction, without reference to the amount in controversy, over all controversies arising between the inhabitants of said nation or tribe and said railway company; and the civil jurisdiction of said courts is hereby extended within the limits of said Indian Territory, without distinction as to citizenship of the parties, so far as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. Fvrjfeited ¤9¤1¤p¤ Sec. 9. That said railway company shall build at least fifty miles of 5: m'1°:m_';'”“ '“ its railway in said Territory within three years after the passage of this Yact, or the rights herein granted shall be forfeited as to that portion not » built; that said railroad company shall construct and maintain continually all road and highway crossings and necessary bridges over said railway wherever said roads and highways do now or may hereafter cross said railway’s right of way,or may be by the proper authorities laid out across the same.