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 134 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 192,193. 1900. prescribed by the.Act entitled "An Act to regulate and improve the civil service," approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred` and _ eighty-three, provided they are otherwise competent. , &,{;§§{)‘{g’¥§§§‘;,’g§,p’;‘gE Sec. 4; That the appropriations hereinmade for the officers, clerks, men employees. and persons employed) in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons permanently incapacitated for per- . forming, such service. · m§g*“g0g*}¥;°g§;,$,*§; Sec. 5. That··· permission is hereby granted to J. D. Richardson, to saves. compilation. compile, edit, and .. ublish, without expense to the Government, the °°°"°f‘ state papers and diplomatic correspondence of the late Confederate States, and access to said papers and correspondence shall be given him for that purpose, by the heads of the Executive Departments having such papersiin charge under such regulations as may be respectively prescribed by them. R€P*>¤l- Sec. 6. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act are repealed. ‘ Approved, April 17, 1900. April 17,1900. CHAP. 193.-—A.n Act Granting the right of way to the Minnesota and Manitoba ";"`*""*" Railroad Company across the ceed portion of the Chippewa (Red Lake) Indian Reservation in Minnesota. ` _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRq2resentata}ves of the United ,§f,§‘{,‘§§§§,“,i,°§,§‘,§§§ States 0_fAma~iea en. Oengress assembled, That there is hereby granted Slept or way tgygizl; to the Minnesota and Manitoba Railroad Company, a_ corporation Minn. . its successors and assigns, the right of wafy of said railroad, with nec- ' essary side tracks and switch tracks, and or telegraph and telephone lines, through the ceded lands of what was formerly the Red Lake Indian Reservation, which railroad commenced at a point at or near the terminus of the Manitoba and Southeastern Railway, on the boundary line between the State of Minnesota and the province of Manitoba; thence in a southeasterl direction through townships one hundred and sixty-four, one hundredy and sixty-three, one hundred and sixty-two, one hundred and sixty-one, one hundred and sixty to a point on Rainy River, forming the northeastern boundary of the State of Minnesota, at or near the mouth of the Baudette River, in the State of Minnesota, _ ·—wi¤¤¤- which right of way shall be fifty feet in width on each side of the cen- Mmrisis- tral line of said railroad. And said company shall also have the right to take from lands, to which there is no pr1or valid claim and which have not been appraised for sale as pine lands, lying adjacent to the line of said railroa, material, stone, earth, and timber necessary for the Additional ground construction of said railroad; also ground adjacent to such rig t of way '°" “““°“S‘ °t°‘ for station buildings, depots, machine shops, side tracks, turn-outs, turntables, water stations, and such other structures at such points as the said railroad com any may deem to their interest to erect, not to exceed three hundredp feet in width and three thousand feet in length foreach station, to the extent of one station for each ten miles of road except at the crossing of said Rainy River, at which point said railroad company may take not exceeding forty acres in addition to the grounds allowed for station purposes for the corresponding section of ten miles: Merced t d Provided, That no part of such lands herein granted shall be used except ""s° res ° °in such manner and for such urposes on y as are necessary for the construction, maintenance, andp convenient operation of said railroad. nnmnges. Sec. 2. That before said railroad shall be constructed through any land, claim, or improvements held by individual occupants according to any custom bf the tribes,.treaties, or laws of the United States, compensation shall be made such occupant or claimant for all property
 * ,,d{’.{’§W'};LS§w¤n0$_ orgamzed and existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota, and