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452 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cas. 917, 936. 1888. said Thirteenth street to block two hundred and ninety-nine, and to S¢¤¤>i<>¤, ew- establish and erect depot or station buildings upon either or any of ®¤¤¤· the before-mentioned blocks: Provided, That any injury or damage m` caused to property of individuals by the construction of said tracks or depot buildings shall be paid b the said Richmond and Danville T¤¤¤¤¤¤· Railroad Company; And providedyurflzer, That all property owned and held by said railroad company within the District of Columbia shall be subject to taxation. ,,,Pf°·°”°··°"`°°"’* Sec. 2. That it shall be lawful for said Richmond and Danville Railroad Company to hold, use, occupy, and convey any real estate heretofore purchased or which may hereafter be purchased by it for corporate uses and purposes. A'"°"°"°°”°' Sec. 3. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act or any part thereof at any time. Approved, August 27. 1888. B¤1*·¤¤1b¤1‘ L IW- CHAP. 936.-An act to accept and ratify an agreement made with the Shoshone ';"""“'"`_ and Bannack Indians, for the surrender and relinquishment to the United States of a portion of the Fort Hall Reservation, in the Territor of Idaho, for the purposes of a town-site, and for the grant of a right of way through said reservation to the Utah and Northern Railway Company, and for other purposes. Be if enacted by the Senate and House oi" Re resenfatives of the u°F_;¤¤mg:“ R¤•¤"*· United Stales of America in Congress assembled, 'llhat a certain agree- Agmemsétwitusho ment made and entered into by the United States of America repreg}?} mt sented as therein mentioned, with the Shoshone and Bannack Indians innor. www- resident in the Fort Hall Reservation, in the Territory of Idaho, and now on file in the office of Indian Affairs, be, and the same is hereby, accepted, ratiiied, and confirmed. Said agreement is executed by a duly certiiied majority of all the adult male Indians of the Shoshone and Bannack tribes occupying or interested in the lands therein more particularly described, in conformity with the provisions of article eleven of the treaty concluded with said Indians July third, eighteen v¤1.1s,p.avs. hundred and sixty-eight (Statutes at Large, volume fifteen, page six hundred apd seventy-three), and is in the words and iigures follow- 111 , name y: Agmemwr- Memorandum of an agreement made and entered into b r the United States of America. represented by Robert S. Gardner. S. Indian Ins ector, and Peter Gallagher, U. S. Indian Agent, specially detailed by the Secretary of the Interior for this purpose, and the Shoshone and Bannack tribes of Indians, occupying the Fort Hall Reservation in the Territory of Idaho, as follows: _C¤¤si¤¤ of R¤¤¤¤*¤· ART. I. The said Indizms agree to surrender and relinquish to the °‘°"‘ United States all their estate. right, title. and interest in and to so much of the Fort Hall Reservation as is comprised within the following boundaries. that is to say: and comprising the following landsi all in town six (li) south of range thirty-four (34) east of Boise Merii ian. B¤¤¤¤¤ri•=¤<>H¤¤d¤ West one-half section twenty-five (25); all of section twenty-six (26); east one-half section twenty-seven (27); northwest quarter section thirty-six (36); north one—half section thirty-tive (35); northeast quarter o southwest quarter section thirty-five (35); northeast quarter of the northeast uarter of section thirty-four (34); comprising an area of eighteen (hundred and forty (1840) acres, more or less, saving and excepting so much of the above-mentioned tracts as has been eretofore and is hereby relinquished to the United States for the use of the Utah and Northern and Oregon Short Line Railways. '¤‘¤¤¤¤>¤ •°*¤¤¤¤¤ The land so relinquished to be surveyed (if it shall be found necessary) by the United States and laid off into lots and blocks as a townsite, an after due appraisement thereof, to be sold at public auction