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 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Szss. III. OHS. S0, 81. 1895. 653 _ detract. The world will little 1101:0, 1101* long rcmcmbcr, what we say here; but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the uufmishcd work which they who ibught here have thus far so uobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the carth." — And the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be Av1>r¤p¤·i¤ti<>¤ f·>r necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury t“m°° ml '“°°““‘°“‘ ngt otherwise appropriated, to pay the cost of said tablet and medallion and pedestal. _ .SEc. 9. That, to enable the Secretary of War to carry out the pur- Approvriwvn for . poses of this Act, including the purchase or condemnation of the land °x’°"°°“‘ °°°` described in sections four and Eve of this Act, opening, improving, and repairing necessary roads and avenues, providing surveys and maps, suitably marking the boundaries of the park, and for the pay and. expenses of tho commissioners and their assistants, the sum of seventy- five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and all disbursements made under this Act shall require the • approval of the Secretary of War, who shall make annual report of the same to Congress. Approved, February 11, 1895; CHAP. 81.-An Act Granting right of way to the Forest City and Sioux City February 12, 1805. . Railroad Company through the ion: Indian Reservation. ——··—··t· Bc it enacted M; the Senate and House of Representatives of the United _ States of America in Congress assembled, That the right of way is _1u»,m my and hereby granted, as hereinafter set forth, to the Forest City and Sioux E‘§‘§p‘jQ§’Q R;§f,Q§{{ City Railroad Company, a corporation duly organized under the general fight ·»f§€¤y. Siqmx incorporation laws of the Territory0f Dakota, its successors or assigns, S{"B§ °S°"°°'°"‘ for the construction, operation, and maintenance of its railroad through the lands set apart for the use of the Sioux Indians and commonly known as the Sioux Indian Reservation, beginning ut a point on the Location. west bank of the Missouri River in Dewey County, South Dakota, opposite Forest City, Potter County, South Dakota, running thence by the most practicable route in a southwesterly course between the Cheyenne and Moreau rivers to the city of Deadwood or Rapid City, South Dakota: Provided, That 110 part of the lands herein granted Prvviw; shall be used except in such manner and for such purposes only as are R"°""°"‘ °t°' necessary for the construction and convenient operation of said milroad line, and when any portion thereof shall cease to be used by said railway company such portion shall revert to the tribe of Indians from which the same shall be taken. Sec. 2. That the right of way hereby grunted to said company shall Width °*°· bc fifty feet in width on each side of the central line of said railroad as atbresaid; and said company shall also have the right to take, fromsaid lands adjacent to the liuc of said road material, stone, earth, and timber necessary for the construction of said railroad; also ground adjacent to such right of way for station buildings, depots, machine smaomm. shops, side tracks, turn-outs, and water stations, not to exceed in amount two hundred feel: in width and three thousand feet in length for each station, to the extent of one station for each ten miles of its road. That whenever said right of way is 011 land opened for Settle- USB °fP“b**¤1¤¤d¤- ment and belonging tp the Government said company shall be grunted said right of way, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of