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 164 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 337. 1888. paid to the individual occupant of lands, with the right of appeal to the courts u n the same terms, conditions, and requirements as therein impmm to be id b said railway company for said dissenting nation or tribe shall Il; in hen of the compensation that said nation or tribe would be entitled to receive under the foregoing provision. Said_ company Indians, to the Secretary of the Interior, the sum of Bfteen dollars pe1· annum for each mile of railway it shall construct in the said Territory. The money aid to the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of this act shall be a portioned by him, in accordance wit the laws and treaties now in grce among the different nations and tribes, accordin to the number of miles of railway that may be constructed by  railway compau through their ands: Provided, That Congress shall have the right, so long as said lands are occupied and ¤¤·**<>¤· possessed by said nations and tribes, to imipose such additional taxes upon said railroad as it ma deem just an proper for their benefit; ,_ and any Territory or State hereafter formed through which said railwa shall have been established may exercise the like power as to such part of said railway as may lie within its limits. Said railway gomjaanyfshalllhave the rightly;) survey and locate its railway immeiate ter the passa o tac . ¤l¤°°‘*°“‘· Smc?6. That said cognepany shall cause maps showing the route of its located line through said Territory to be led in the office of the Secreta of the Interior, and also to be Bled in the office of the principarltchief of each of the nations or tribes through whose lands said railway may be located, and after the Bling of said maps no claim for a subsequent settlement and improvement upon the right of wa shown by said maps shall be vali as against said company: !'¤••*‘•°· Providved, That when a map showing any portion of said railway y*’s located line is filed as herein provided for, said compgny °¤¤¤¤*¢'°*- s commence gradin said located line within six months t reafter, or such location shall be void; and said location shall be approved by the Secretary of the Interior in sections of twenty-Bve miles before construction of any such section shall be begun. itnpwrgggz re Sec. 7. That the officers, servants, and employees of said company °° y` necessary to the construction and management of said road sha 1 be allowed to reside, while so engaged, upon such right of wa, but subject to the provisions of the Indian intercourse laws, and, such rules and regu ations as may be established by the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with said intercourse laws. J¤vi¤¤i<=¤¤¤ 0* Sec. 8. That the United States circuit and district courts for the °°'·° northern district of Texas, 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 Fort Smith and El Paso Railway Company and the nations and tribes through whose territory said ra' way 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 nations or tribes 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 ep tllgaspaanrties, so far as may be necessary to carry out the provisions o t. ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤·¤¢¤¤* Sec. 9. That said railway company shall build at least four sec- °°"'m°°' tions, of twenty-five miles each, of its railway in said Territory within three years after the g.ssage of this act, and the remainder thereof within five years, or e rights herei:ngranted shall be forfeited as to that portion not built· that saidroad com y shall mgm construct and maintain continually all fences, road, and highway crossings and necessary bridges over said railway wherever said
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