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Show REPORT OF THE C03IUISSIOXEN OF ISDIAS AlWAIRS. 71 l ing that the compaay had 110 authority to construct that portiou of the roaa passing through the Wichita Reservation. hIarch 15,1899, the company submitted for record in this office a release or 'Lsntisfaction piece" of the Finance Company of Pennsylvania, releasing aud dis-charging the mortgage made on October 3,1894, by the Choctaw, Okla-homa and Gulf Railroad Company to said Finance Company of Penn-sylvania, covering all its line of railroad, spurs, switches, side tracks, and property, said mortgage being for the sum of $1,100,000 and having been recorded in this office October 15,1895. May 25,1899, the Acting Secretary of the Interior declined to approve the map of definite looa-tion of the company's line of road through the Wichita Reservation, said approval being asked for under the act of Congress of March 2, 1899 (30 Stats., 990), holding that said act did not authorize the approval of a map of definite location of a line of road which had pre-viously been constructed. July 5,1899, the company submitted audit voucher No. 4 in the nature of a draft on the Girard Life Insurance Annuity and Trust Company, of Philadelphia, for $2,038.50, which it tendered in payment of the annual tax at the rate of $15 per mile for each mile of road constructed through Indian lands for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899. July 8, 1899, the company tendered voucher No. 5 in the nature of a draft on the State National Bank of Denison, Tex., for $538.50, in payment of the right of way at the rate of $50 per mile for 11.17 miles from Howe to the west line of Arkansas. Gulf, Colorado and Santa Pe Railway Compmy.-June 30,1899, the compauy tendered a draft for $1,500 in payment of the annual tax of $15 per mile for each mile of road constructed through Indian lands, for the fiscal year ending June 30,1899. Southern Kansas Railroad Company (leased to the Atchison, Topeka md Santa Pe Raikoag Coirqany).-June 29,1899, the company submitted a voucher in the nature of a check payable at the Merchants' National Bank, New Pork, for $85.50 in payment of the annual tax of $15 per mile for ewh mile of road constructed through Indian lands for the fiscal year ending June 30,1899. Denason and Washita Valley Railroad Company.-June 30,1899, the company tendered audit voucher No. 630, issued by the Missouri, Kan-sas and Texas Railway Company for $160 in payment of the aiinual tax of $16 per mile for each mile of road constructed through Ir~dianla nds, for the fiscd year ending June 30,1899. Earnas and Arkansm Vallsy Railway Company.-July 1, 1899, the company submitted draft for $2,444.55, which they tendered in payment of the annual tax of $15 per mile for each mile of road constructed through Indian lands, for the fiscal year ending June 30,1899. Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad 0ornpany.June 23,1899, the company tendered a draft for $2,137.35 in payment of the annual tax of $15 per mile for each mile of road constructed through Indian lands, for the fiscal year ending June 30,1899. |
