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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 193, 243. 1900. 135 to be taken or dama e done by reason of the construction of such railroad. In case of gailure to make satisfactory settlement with any —5¤¤¤¤i¤¤¤¤· such claimant, the United States district court at Minneapolis, Minnesota, shall have jurisdiction, upon petition of either part, to determine · such just compensation in accordance with the laws of Minnesota provided for determining the damage when property is taken for railroad purposes. The amount of damages resu ting to the tribes of Indians, in their tribal capacity, by reason of the construction of said railroad through such ce ed lands of the former Red Lake Reservation as are notoccupied in severalty, shall be ascertained and determined in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, and be subject to his final approval; but no right of any kind shall vest in said railroad Pimcompanyin or to any part of the right of way herein provided for until plats thereof, made upon actual survey for the definite location of such railroad, and including grounds for station buildings, de ots, machine shops, side tracks, turn-outs, and water stations, shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior, and until compensation aforesaid shall have been fixed and paid: Provided, That said railroad Qggigb, mmm to shall be located, constructed, and operated with due regard to the be preserved. rights of the Indians. Sec. 3. That said company shall file mags showing the definite loca- Mmtion of the line of road and station groun s in the local land office for ` the district in which the land lies, and upon approval thereofby the Secretary of the Interior the grant of right of) way shown thereon shall relate back to the date of such filing. Upon the completion of the road the company shall file an afli avit of its engineer and a certificate of its president as evidence thereof. .. Sec. 4. That said company is hereby authorized to enter upon Surveys- ceéled lands for the purpose of surveying and locating its line of rar roa . Sec. 5. That the right herein granted shall be forfeited by said com- 0<>¤¤¤1¢¢i¤¤· pany unless the road shall be constructed through the said ceded lands within two years after the passage of this Act. Sec. 6. That nothing herein contained shall restrict or impair the R¤il¤>¤0 rightsrights which said company may now have or hereafter &§El1l1'B to the benefits and provisions of the Act of Congress approved rch third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled ‘ n Act granting to V0]- '8· P- 482- réailroads the right of way through the public lands of the United tates. . Sec. 7. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal A‘“°“dm°“‘· this Act, or any part thereof. ‘ Approved, April 17, 1900. CHAP. 243.-An Act To set apart a portion of the Arlington estate for ex ri- APU! i8»1000· mental agricultural purposes, and to place said portion under the jurisdiction oixtbhe `_1'_`——` Secretary of Agriculture and his successors in office. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o_fRr1e§resentotives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, at jurisdiction is hereby uifgvsrimeritgl ¤sri~ transferred and given to the Secretary of Agriculture and his successors Egret? im_ I uigm in office over so much of the Government and -in Alexandria County, S,,{,‘§;§,‘}§“g‘}”A*gg$,{§ Virginia, known as the Arlington estate, as lies east of the public road me of 1¤¤<1¤- leading from the Aqueduct Bridge to Alexandria, Virginia, otherwise _ called the Georgetown and Alexandria road, and between said road "1°"““°“· and the Potomac River, containing about four hundred acres, with the exception, however, of a strip of land as follows, commencing at the point where the Geor etown and Alexandria road enters the Ar ington _ estate on the north shi, thence along said road six hundred and twenty- -