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558 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 1113, 1186. 1888. Massachusetts; one at or near Lynn Haven Inlet, Virginia; two between Ocracoke Inlet and Cape Lookout, horth Oarol1na,_at such points as the General Superintendant of the I.1te—Saving Service may recommend; one at or near Ashtabula, Ohio; one at or near Marquette, Michigan; one between the Ocean House, south of the entrance to the harbor of San Francisco, and Point San Pedro. California, at such point as the General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service may recommend. Approved, October 13, 1888. T . HAP. 8 .——1 h and Winni Railwa Com

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Minnesota, and gu other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Duluth md W*¤¤i· United States of America in Congress assembled. That there IS Bgggikinilgscéinlipiii hereby granted to the Duluth and Vifinnipeg Railway Company, {gg commencing at Duluth and running by the most practicable route to um, mm;. a point at or near Grand Ra ids, on Mississippi River, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of _M1nnesota, and its assigns, the right of way for the extension_of its railroad through the Fond du lac Indian Reservation in said State. Such Width right of way shall be nfty feet in width on each side of the central line of said railroad, and said company shall also have the right to take from the lands adjacent to the line of said road material, stone, and earth necessary for the construction of said railroad; also grounds Buiidinzm ew- adjacent to such right of way, for station buildings, depots, machineshops, side-tracks, turn-outs, and water-stations, not to exceed in amount three hundred feet in width and three thousand feet in length for each station, to the extent of two stations within the limits of i said reservation. cempensum. Sec. 2. That before said railway shall be constructed through any land, claim, or improvement held by individual occupants, according to any treaties or laws of the United States, compensation shall be made such occupant or claimant for all propert to be taken or damage done by reason of the construction of saidy railway. In case of failure to make satisfactory settlement with any such claimant, the "ust compensation shall be determined as provided for by the laws of Minnesota, enacted for the settlement of ike controversies in such namages m mum cases. The amount of damages resulting to the Fond du Lac tribe ¤‘“·¢‘- of Indians in their tribal capacity by reason of the construction of said railway through such lands of the reservation as are not occupied in severalty, shall be ascertained and determined in such man- 1=·1m¤. eee,. toheap· ner as the Secretary of the Interior ma direct, and to be subject to y{;"g‘},*;_¤;{';*{e;,“§$f* his iinal approyal; but no right of any kind shall vest in said railway company m or to any part of the right of way herein provided for, unti plats thereof, made upon actual survey, for the deiinite location of such railroad, and mcluding the grounds for station buildings, depots, machine-shops, side-tracks, turn-outs, and waterstations, shal have been approved b the Secretary of the Interior, and until the compensation aforesaictshall have been fixed and paid, and the consent of the Indians on said reservation as to the amount of said compensation shall have been first obtained in a manner satisfactory to the President of the United States. Said company is hereby authorized to enter upon such reservation for the purpose of Pmrimt _ surveying and locating its line of railroad: Provided, That said railmg’““° I”°'“°" road shal be located, constructed, and o erated with due regard to the rights of the Indians and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe.