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FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cns. 48, 49. A 1889. 647 exposed localities which may at any time experience the necessity of home defense against sudden raids; and Whereas, several Territories, including Alaska, are without militia organizations, and their nppotas remain uncalled for, and the amounts are annually covered bac into the Treasury, instead of being appor- ‘tioned to those States having a deficiency of arms and equipments; Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary Ar¤¤¤h;¤¤=r¤¤¤iti¤¤, of \Var be, and he is hereby directed to cause one thousand stand of °m"°° i°°“°d‘ improved Springfield rifles, caliber forty-five, model eighteen hundred and eighty-four; sixty Springfield cadet rifles, caliber forty- five; six hundred and sixty shell extractors; six hundred and sixty screw-drivers; six hundred and sixty wiping-reds; one hundred and thirty-two tumbler unches; thirty-three spring-vises; thirty-three arm—chests; six hundred and sixty bayonetscabbards; six hundred and sixty cartridge-boxes; six hundred and sixty wrist—belts and plates; two thousand rifle ball-cartridges; four thousand rifle blankcartridges; two Gatling guns, caliber forty-five; two carriages and timbers for Gatling guns (wood); two gun—c0vers; four handspikes; two sight-cases; two oilers; two hammers; two wrenches; to be forwar ed to and laced at the disposal of the governor of the State of Oregon, at Salem, in said State, for distribution among the militia organizations of the State which may be deicient in the material herein provided for, and said property shall be recei ted and accounted for the same as that embraced in re uisitions on die regular annual quotas provided for by law; and when the regular quotas Amman quota. annually due said State shall be sufficient therefor, the said annual quotas shall be credited to the said State, until the advance of arms, ordnance, and stores hereby made shall be offset and balanced by said annual quotas. Approved, January 16, 1889. CHAP. 49.-An act ’ the ’ ht of wa throu h certain lands in the State n · » .. of Minnesota to the Mod;-1db1ati1ljgLeeoh'lI.ake andyllorthegn Railway Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re resenfatives of the United States of America- in Congress assembled? That the right of Ljl*;°*?,¤:g‘;`tf-sggg way is hereb granted, as hereinafter set forth, to the Moorhead, eech zvnahern rmxmsn Lake, Duluth and Northern Railroad Company, a corporation organ- ,€"§',‘,’§}"Q,,,€’{,'},'Q,f,§§ ized and existing under thelaws of the State of Minnesota, for rail- zillritalglnnoh R¤¤¤¤·¤· road pur oses, throu h the lands in northern Minnesota set apart for `°°‘ ‘ the use oi) the White Earth band of Chipipewas, by treaty dater March V¤¤·1¤·¤-7¤¤- nineteenth, anno Domini eighteen hun red and sixty-seven, and Executive orders of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine. and July thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, commonly known as the White Earth Indian Reservation. That the line of said railroad shall extend from the city of Moor- Imation. head by the most convenient and practicable route in a northeasterly direction through Clay County; thence in an easterly direction through a portion of Becker County, thence into and t rough the White Earth Indian Reservation, passing Flat Lake and through another portion of Becker County; thence through Hubbard, Cass, Aitkin, and Saint Louis Counties to Duluth. __ Sec. 2. That said corporation is authorized to take and use for all *******1 urposes of a railwa , and for no other purpose, a right of way one hundred feet in width through said Indian eservation, and to take and use a strip of land two hundred feet in width, with a length of three thousand feet. in addition to right of way, for stations, for every ten miles of road, with the right to use such additional ground