Chapter 125. Granting to the Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railway Company a right of way through the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in the State of Minnesota
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CHAP. 125.— An Act Granting to the Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railway Company a right of way through the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in the State of Minnesota.July 6, 1894. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railway Company grunted right of way, Leech Lake Indian Reservation, Minn. That there is hereby granted to the Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railway Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Minnesota, and to its assigns, the right of way for the extension of its railroad, with necessary side tracks and switch tracks, and for a telegraph and telephone line, through the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in said State, commencing at a point in the south line of said Indian reservationLocation. and extending northwesterly through sections thirteen, twelve, one, and two, of township one hundred and forty-one, range thirty-one, to a point in the west line of said reservation in said section two, with the right to load logs on said railroad at the points in said reservation where the same may run adjacent or contiguous to the waters of Leech Lake.
Such right of way shall be fifty feet, in width on each side ofWidth, etc. 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 100 grounds adjacent to such right of way for station buildings, depots,Stations, etc. machine shops, sidetracks, turnouts, and water stations, not to exceed in amount two hundred feet in width and three thousand feet in length for each station, and to an extent not exceeding one station within the *Proviso*.Use limited.limits of said reservation: *Provided*, That no part of such lands herein granted shall be used except in such manner and for such purposes only as are necessary for the construction and convenient operation of said railroad line, and when any portion thereof shall cease to be used, such portion shall revert to the nation or tribe of Indians from which the same shall be taken.
Sec. 2. That before said railroad shall be constructed through anyDamages to individuals. 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 property to be taken or damage done by reason of the construction of said railroad. In case of failure to make satisfactory settlement with any such claimant, the United States district court at Saint Paul or Duluth, Minnesota, shall have jurisdiction upon petition of either party to determine such just compensation in accordance with the laws of Minnesota provided for determining the damage when property is taken for railroad purposes; and the amount Damages to tribes.of damages resulting to the tribe or tribes of Indians pertaining to said reservation in their tribal capacity, by reason of the construction of said railroad through such lands of the reservation as are not occupied in severalty, shall be ascertained and determined in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, and be subject to his final *Proviso*.Work may begin on filing bond.approval: *Provided, however*, That said railroad company may file with the Secretary of the Interior a bond, in such amount and with such sureties as the Secretary shall approve, conditioned for the payment of just compensation for said right of way to said individual occupants and to said tribe or tribes, as hereinbefore provided, and said company may thereupon proceed to construct and operate its railroad across said reservation.
Sec. 3. That said company shall cause maps, showing the route ofMaps to be filed. its line through said reservation, and including the grounds for station buildings, depots, machine shops, side tracks, turnouts, and water stations, to be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Interior before constructing any portion of said railroad. Sec. 4. That said company is hereby authorized to enter upon saidSurvey. reservation for the purpose of surveying and locating its line of *Proviso*.Rights of Indians.railroad: *Provided*, That said railroad shall be located and constructed with due regard to the rights of the Indians, and under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe.
Sec. 5. That the right herein granted shall be forfeited by said company.Construction. unless the road shall be constructed through the said reservation within three years after the passage of this Act. Approved, July 6, 1894.