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 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cris. 92, 93. 1896. 87 one hundred and forty-five and six—tenths feet; thence north sixty-three degrees west twenty-three and one-tenth feet to a stone marked “WV. A. K. 2;" thence north fifty-seven degrees and fifteen minutes east one hundred and fifty-four and five-tenths feet to the place of beginning, containing three thousand and one square feet, or about sixty-nine onethousandths of an acre. Description of land to be sold to John R. Scott: Beginning at a point Jehu R·S¤·>¤- on the easterly boundary line of the United States land pertaining to the Dalecarlia Reservoir, thirty-nine feet from a stone at the intersection of the southerly and easterly boundary lines of said land, and running thence along said easterly boundary line north twelve degrees and forty-two minutes east two hundred and sixty-six and seventy-tive hundredths feet; thence leaving said boundary line and running south seventy-five degrees and seventeen minutes west eighty-two and seventy-five hundredths feet; thence south two degrees and thirtyfive minutes east two hundred and thirty-four and twenty-tour hundredths feet; thence south sixty-four degrees and forty-six minutes east eleven and fiftyeight hundredths feet to the point of beginning, containing one-fourth of an acre, more or less. Approved, April 6, 1896. CHAP. 93.-——An Act Authorizing the Arkansas Northwestern Railway Company to Avril 6. 1896. construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes. Ci; Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States afAmeriea in Congress assembled, That the Arkansas Northwest- A:k¤¤g¤el Nvpthern Railway Company, a corporation created under and by virtue of g;§yBr$,D:{Q]F?Qgf:} the laws of the State of Arkansas, be, and the same is hereby, author- "**>’·E1di“¤T¤'¤‘“°U· ized and invested and empowered with the right of locating, constructing, owning, equipping, and operating, using, and maintaining a railway and telegraph and telephone lines through the Indian Territory upon ` a line beginning at a point to be selected by said railway company at L°°*”i°¤- or near the town of Southwest City, in the county of McDonald, State of Missouri, and running thence in a northwest direction over the most practicable route through the Indian Territory, to a point between Chetopa and Baxter Springs, in the State of Kansas, with the right to construct, use, and maintain such tracks, turn—outs, sidin gs, and extensions through such Territory as said company may deem to their interests to construct along and upon the right of way and depot grounds herein provided for. _ Sec. 2. That the said corporation is authorized to take and use, for W"“l‘· all purposes of a railway and for no other purpose, a right of way one hundred feet in width through said Territory, and to take and use a strip of land one hundred feet in width, with a length of two thousand ieet, in addition to right of way, for stations for every ten miles of road, S¤¤¤¤¤¤,¤¤=- with right to use such additional grounds where there are heavy cuts or fills, not exceeding fifty feet in width, as may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of said right of way, or as much thereof as may be included in said cuts or fills: Provided, That no more than {tgt?;;} 5mm_ said addition of land shall be taken for any one station: Provided/hrther, That no part of said lands herein authorized to be taken shall be R<—>v<>r¤i¤¤ fer ¤¤¤— leased or sold by the company; and they shall not he used except in °°"‘ such manner and for such purposes only as shall be necessary for the construction and convenient operation of said road and telegraph and telephone lines; and when any portion thereof shall cease to be so used such portion shall revert to the nation or tribe of Indians or individual Indians from which the same shall have been taken. _ Sec. 3. That befbre said railway shall be constructed through any mEP¤°¤'*°°*¤d*"***· lands held by individual occupants, according to the laws, customs, and ` usages of any of the Indian nations or tribes through which it may be constructed, or by allotment under any laws of the United States or agreement with the Indians, full compensation shall be made to such