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 660 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 1272, 1273. 1890. ,land laws of the United States to an of the lands in the Crow Creek and Winnebago Reservations, which by the proclamation of the President of February twenty seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty ive, were declared to be opened for settlement. Said agent Ixsmimtions. shall have power to cause witnesses to come before him at some point convenient to said reservation, and to administer oaths. He zmpon. shall report what improvements were made by such persons, and ‘ the section or part of section with the township and range upon which said sett er made his improvements, the value of the same, · the losses sustained by reason of the revocation of the Executive order opening said lands to settlement, giving the particulars of any ‘ such osses, and all other facts connected therewith. Said agent ·mpe¤¤¤¢i¤¤,cw. shall be entitled to a compensation of ten dollarsper day and ex- Appmpmuou. penses, and may emplgy a clerk. There is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the reasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may ·F¤r¤>¤*¤¤<>¤Z¤*¤- be necessary. The Secretary of the Interior shall transmit said report to Congress, with his recommendations thereon. Approved, October 1, 1890. October 1.1890 CHAP. 1273.-An act granting right of way to the Red Lake and Western Rail- "_‘“"""" way and Navigation Compan across Red Lake Reservation, in Minnesota, and granting said company the right to take lands for terminal railroad and warehouse Pu1'P°S€S· Be it enacted by the Senate and House 0{ Re resentatirves of the mwydxg. United States of America in Congress assembled, Tl')hat there is hereby sgguqn mmmgy granted to the Red Lake and Western Railway and Navigation Com- §;•;•§$¤*f§nI;1_“k° "· ppny, a corporation organized under the general laws of the State of innesota, of which Frank Ives has been duly elected president, a ikight or way. right of way for a track of said railway one hundred feet wide, from Widm the westerly line of said reservation, in township one hundred and ‘¥·<>¤¤¤·>¤fifty-two, or one hundred and fifty-three, of ranges forty-two or forty-three in said State, in a northeasterly direction, to the Red `P¤ym¤¤¤· Lake River, in said State, u on paying to the United States, for the use of the Red Lake band otp Chippewa Indians, as soon as the said right of way is located, and the plats thereof approved by the Secretary of the Interior, such sum as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents er acre for each and every acre which shall be used and occupied ty said company in the location of their said railway. »I·¤¤¤¤¤¤R¤¤L¤k¤- Sec. 2. That for the purpose of aiding the said company to construct a railway to the navigable waters of said lake, or navigable waters connected therewith, there is hereby granted to the said Red Lake and Western Railway and Navigation Company the right to take and use one hundred and sixty acres of the lands in said reservation, to be by said company selected at some lace or point on Red` Lake River on the line of said railway in said State far enough up said river to admit of good and unimpeded navigation by water from ’P¤y¤¤¤¤¤- said location to Red Lake Indian Agency, upon paying to the United States for the use of said Indians such sum as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, not less than the sum of one dollar and twenty- five cents per acre for each and every acre thereof, and also whatever amount may be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior for such right Damages. and for the damages arising to any individual Indian or Indians for Aman. actual improvements which he or they may have thereon: Provided, ro be used only mi- That no part of said lands shall be used, directly or indirectly, for §QQ‘_"d* ""°*· P`"' town-site purposes, it being the intention hereof t at said lands shall be held for general railway uses and purposes only, including stockyards, warehouses, elevators, docks, and terminal and other facilities