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Show 110 REPORT OF.THE COMMISS~NER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. range 7 west. Under date of August 21, 1890 (see office letter July 2,1892), the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway Company teu-dered a draft for the sum of $1,416.24 in payment of the aiinual tax of $15 per mile for that portion of the road constructed through the Cherokee outlet up to October 19,1890. Under date of July 28, 1892, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Companytendered a draft for $1,456.46 in payment of the annual taxon that part of the road which ' extends through the Cherokee outlet lands from October 19; 1890, to June 30,1892, and a draft for 6588.02, in payment of annual tax on that portion of the road which extends through the lauds of the Chey-enne aid Arapaho Indians from date of constructioullo April 19,1892, the date when the surplus lands on the Cheyenne and' Arapaho Reser-vation were opened to public settlement. . Choctaw Coal and Railroad Company.-Under date of March 6,1891, the company tendered a draft for $3465 in payment of annual tax of $15 per mile on that portion of the road constructed prior to Jnne 30, 1890. The company has recently been called on to tender the fill1 amount of tax due up to June 30, 1892. CfuEf, Colorado and Santa 3. Railway,-There is now pending before Congress a bill (Senate bill No. 3147) to authorize the Gulf, Colorado aildsanta FB Railway Company to purchase certain lands for station purposes at Davis, Chickasaw Nation, 1ndiin Territory. .The bill was . reported on in office letter of June 29, 1892, to the Secretary of the Interior. Under date of Fehruhry 10,1891, the eompany tendered a draft for $1,500 in payment of the annual tax on its road from June 12,1889, to,June 11,1890.. Under date of July 25,1892, the company was called on h tender the full amount of annual tax to June 30,1892. The company on August 9,1892, tendered a draft for $1,500 in pay- , ment of the annual tax on its road through Indian lands for the fiscal 1 year ending June 30,1892. In office le.tter of August 13, 1892, the - attention of the company was invited to the fact that it had not ten- , dered payment of the annual tax from June 11,1890, to June 30,'1891, a period of one year and nineteen days.* I llze Southern Kansas Railroad (leased to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Pi5 Railway Company.)-Under date of Februalty 18,1892,Messrs. Brit,ton & Gray filed in this office an agreement, dated January 18, 1892, entered into between the Cherokee Nation, by 6. J. Harris, priu-cipal chief, aud the Southern Kansas Railroad Company for the sum of $7,502 and payment of the costs of suit, in full settlement for all compensation on account of land taken by said eompany for right of way through the Cherokee Outlet. The matter of the payment by this eompany for lands taken for right of way through the Cherokee Outlet had been pending in the courts for a number af years. On January 19,1892, the circuit court for the western district of Arkansas entered .- -. .. .- .. 'In response to this letter the company an September 7,1893, tendered a draft for $1,618.08 in pay. mnt of the annos1 tax for the period mentioned. |