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Show southerly from the line of original looation at a point in the Fort '11 Military Reservation, extending through the Fort Sill boarding-school farm and the southern limits of the town of Lawton, Okla., to a point west of the Fort Sill Reservation. The agent of the Kiowa Agency was designated to assess damages. Prior to June 30, 1902, there was completed by grading in the Chickasaw Nation 29.2 miles. Oklahoma City and Southwestern Railway Company.-March 4, 1902, five maps of definite location were approv~d showing the survey of a line from OMahoma City, Okla., southeasterly 117.56 miles to Coal-gate, Choctaw Nation. April 4 the company requested that the msess-ment of damages be delayed, as some change would be made in the survey before tbe road could be constructed. Oklahoma and Indian Territory Electric Railway Company.-December 31,1901, the Department referred the application of thk company for permission to survey a line from Mdlester, Choctaw Nation, to Law-ton, Okla. The application did not conform to the regulations, and the applicant was so advised January 13, 1902. Omaha Northern Railway Company.-By act of April 30, 1902, the time for the completion of this railway was extended three years from March 26,1901. Ozark and Cherokee Central Railway Company,-September 5, 1901, there was approved map of the third section of this road, extending 22.62 miles from Tahlequah, in the Cherokee Nation, to Muskogee, in the Creek Nation. The first and second sections extend from the Arkansas- Indian Territory line through the Cherokee Nation, and on them dam-ages were assessed amounting to $5,985.52, of which $5,884.20 was paid by the company-$1;907.11 as evidenced by vouchers filed March 4,1902, and $3,977.09 by a draft. The draft was held pending a read- ' justment of damages on an amended line shown upon maps of definite location, approved, first section (20 miles), May 7, and second section (20.15 miles), July 2, 1902. Maps showing four station grounds on the amended line were also approved July 2. Damages in the sum of $6,990.63 were assessed on the amended line of the first and second sections, as shown upon schedules approved July 14, 1902. Accom-panying them were vouchers showing further payments to occupants in the sum of $1,877.96, which, with the amount previously paid, make a total payment by the. company of $7,762.16. The $771.53 in excess of the amount assessed will be returned. A map of the first section in the Creek Nation, which would be the third section from the Arkansas-Indian Territory line, was submitted June 27,1902, under the act of February 28,1902. Twenty miles had been completed by grading June 4, 1902. Potean Valley Xsilroad Company.-After protesting against the assess-ment, the company paid $927.94 tribal damages in the Choctaw Nation. Individual damages amounting to $191.63 were also paid. |