Chapter 145. to ratify and confirm agreement between the Puyallup Indiana and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for right of way through the Puyallup Indian Reservation
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CHAP. 145.— An Act to ratify and confirm agreement between the Puyallup Indiana and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for right of way through the Puyallup Indian Reservation.February 20, 1893. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Puyallup Indians.Agreement with Northern Pacific Railroad Company ratified. That the agreement dated November twenty-first, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, made between J.
W. Sprague, superintendent of the Pacific division of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, on behalf of said Company, and R. II. Milroy, then agent in charge of the Puyallup Indian Reservation, on behalf of the Indians occupying the same, a copy of which is on file in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, under the terms of which Right of way.said Indians granted said railroad company right of way through said reservation for its Cascade Branch, which said agreement was assented to and approved by said Indians, as evidenced by a certain memo randum in writing, bearing date November twenty-third, eighteen and seventy-six, signed by the chiefs and headmen of the Puyallup tribe of Indians, also on tile in the office of the Secretary of the Interior, which said last-mentioned agreement was approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs December fourteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and by the Secretary of the Interior April thirteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, be, and the same is hereby, ratified *Proviso*.Condition.and approved. *Provided*, The said company, shall comply with all the terms and stipulations of said agreement, and maintain in proper condition all buildings, structures, and ways provided for therein.
Sec. 2. Branch. That there be, and is hereby, granted to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company a right of way not exceeding sixty feet in width through the Puyallup Indian Reservation, for a spur one thousand three hundred and seventy-eight feet in length from a point on the Cascade branch of said railroad company now constructed through said reservation to the western boundary thereof, according to the map thereof filed by said railroad company in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs June twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, upon the following terms and conditions, viz:
First. Fences. That said railroad company shall erect and maintain on either side of said right of way a good lawful fence so as to protect stock in the fields on either side thereof. Second. Water gate. That said railroad company shall put in and keep in order a water gate at the point where the wagon road now being used and maintained across said reservation will cross said spur when constructed, in order to allow the water to escape, and also to keep the salt water from coming in during high tide.
Third. Gates, etc. That said railroad company shall construct and maintain gates in its right of way, fences at the point where said wagon road crosses the right of way herein granted for said spur, and construct and maintain a wagon road crossing between said gates. Fourth. Payments. That said railroad company shall pay the Indians for the right of way so taken for said spur such sum, not less than one thousand five hundred dollars per acre, as may be determined by the secretary of the Interior to be right and proper; and that it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior, within thirty days after the approval of this act, to prescribe the time and manner for the payment thereof.
Approved, February 20, 1893.