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102 FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS; 197, 198. 1890. lq6,1D0. CHAP. 19'l.—An act Exing the rate of interest to be on arrearages of "_"*'*"”’ and special taxes now due the District of Columbia if paid within a time Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Dumont oumnnsn United States of America in Congress assemble , That the rate of ¥¤*°¤•°°·°°°;c°“ W interest to be collected of any person owin arrearages of general duced. S" N taxes prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, or "“"· P· °°°· assessments for special improvements, includinglthe laying of water ` mains, now due to and the liens for which are eld by the District of Columbia, shall be six per centum per annum, in lieu of the rate mm and penalties now fixed by law and of all accrued costs : Provided, umnsaw June so, That this provision shall only aprply to taxes and assessments paid

  • “°· on or before the thirtieth day of une, eighteen hundred and ninety.

Approved, May 6, 1890. CHAP. 198.-An act tin the S kane Falls and Northam Railwa Com-

 pany the right of way   thi Colville Indian Reservation. y

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the $,,0,,,,, nu, md United States o£ America in Congress assembled, That the S kane §g:“°'° ":{§_'{g§ Falls and Nort 0111 Railway Complany, a corporation createdpiinder

¤¥sh.érgn and by virtue of the laws of the erritory of Washingiton, be, and

,“_'w_h_ the sand corporation 18 hereby, authorized, invested, an empowered ( with the right to locate, construct, edluip, operate, use, and main- Mlwny. Nvznvh tain a railway and telegraph and tel? one line through the Indian ”“°*°‘°· reservation situated in he State of ashin£on known as the Col- Imation. ville Reservation, occumted by the Colville dians, beginnin at a point on the Coluénpliia Sgver ag nvneiar Kettle Falls, intlthe Sortheastern portion 0 e ate o as ington running ence in a northwesterly direction by the most practicable route through said reservation, with the rig t to construct, use, and maintain such tracks, turn-out, and sidings as said company may deem it to their intere? tlc cgnstructs along and upon the right of way and depot oun s ere gran e . _ wma.· gl-Sec. 2. Thai? a right of way one hundred feet in width throu h said Indian reservation is hereby granted to the said Spokane Fahs and Northern Railway Company, and a strip of land two hundred feet in width, with a length of three thousand feet, in addition to swans said right of way, is granted for stations for every ten miles of road, ummm mum. no portion of which shall be sold or leased by the company, with the right to use such additional ground where there are eavy cuts or fills as may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of nom-bed. the road-bed not exceeding one hundred feet in width on each side of said right of waryilor as much thereof as mag be included in said cut naw. or fill: Provided, at no more than said a dition of land shall be u'“‘°· taken for any one station: Provided further, That no part of the ger w M wd for lands granted shall be used except in such manner and for such pur- ° °r '""°°°°°’°°°‘ poses only as shall be necessary for the construction and convenient onpration of said railroad an telegraph and telephone lines ; and w eu any portion thereof shall cease to so used such portions shall revert to the tribe or tribes of Indians from which the same shall have been taken, or, in case thezy shall have ceased to occupy the same, to the United States: An provided further, That before any onmnmr means such lands shall be taken for the purposes aforesaid the consent of gis In1di:2nsfth1ereéo shzglsbe obtained in a manner satisfactory to the residen o the United States. Compensatiou for Sec. 3. That before said railwaiy shall be constructed through any

 Mm lands held by Sald tribe or by in ividual occuplants according to the

laws, customs, and usages of any of the Indian ribes through which