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 664 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 1277, 1278. 1890. said road within said reservation for the transportation of passengers or freight than is charged for a like service outside of said reservation. No assigpment be Sec. 4. That said company shall not assign or transfer or mortfm wm °*°”= gage this right of wz3yr or any rlplurpose w atever until said road Pm-itat. shall be completed: ofvided, at the company may mortgage ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤•>¤ ¤¤<>¤» Said franchise, together with the rolling stock, for money to construct ndgmpietacn. and complete said road: And promded further, That the right granted herein shall be lost and. forfeited by said company unhass the road is constructed and in running order across said reservation within two ears from the passage of this act. conumcncraccept- Sec. 5. That said railway company shall accept this right of way and assigns, that they will neither aid, advise, nor assist in any effort looking towards the changing or extinguishing the present tenure of the Indians in their lan, and will not attempt to secure from the Indian tribes any further grant of land or its occu cy than is aww. hereinbefore provided; Pro/vided, That any violation om condition rename. mentioned in this section shall operate as a forfeiture of all the rights and rivileges of said railway company under this act. A¤¤¤¤<1¤¤¤¤¢»¤·¤· Sm? '.[l`ha;t Congress may at any time amend, add to, alter, or repea tac. ` Approved, October 1, 1890. october-. CHAP. 12'l8.—An act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to -—j£·§’— Rio Grande Junction Railway Company certain lands in the State of°°(lovl:a>,ratdd)otlih? gg; certain other lands in said State conveyed by the said company to the United Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the mcanduumdon United States of America in Congress assembled, That the ecre- 1¤=¤w¤y¤·¤v•¤y· tary of the Interior be,·and he hereby is, authorized to convey in fee C,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,_ of to the Rio Grande Junction Railway Companyglfor right of way and ng y'State of Colorado, now held y the Unite States for school pur oses in connection with Grand Junction Indian school, said land heiug mmm_ described as follows: Beginning at a_ point on the Ute meridian one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine and seven-tenths feet north of the southwest corner of section eighteen, township one south of range one east of the Ute meridian; thence running northward along the said Ute meridian to the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of said section eighteen; thence easterly along the north line of the said southwest quarter of section eighteen to the northeast corner of the said southwest quarter of section eighteen; thence in a southerly direction along the east line of the said southwest quarter of section eighteen forty feet; thence in a straight line and in a southwesterly direction to the place of beginnin, not to exceed in Promise. the aggregate twenty-six and three-tenths acres: Trovided, That the _ convsymceoumas said railway company shall first convey or cause to be conveyed to $*;“· W "*° °°¤¤· the United States in fee, which conveyance shall be satisfactory to ` the Attorney-General of the United States, the following-described land, in lieu of the land to be conveyed to the said company as metrics. herein provided: Commencing at the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of section eighteen, township one south, of range one east, of the Ute meridian ; thence running east along the south line of said section eighteen sevent rods; thence north eighty rods. more or less; to the north line of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of said section eighteen; thence west seventy rods to the east line of the southwest quarter of said section eighteen; thence south
 * '*°°· upon the expressed condition, in ing upon itself, its successors
 * %¤gggg£gl¤¤;g<>· M other necessary railroad purposes, a strip of d in Mesa County,