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Show 104 REPORT OF THE COiUHI8SIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. November 9, 1901, the company submitted the following statement: * * * The said railroad company hereby withdraws all reference to aaid leases as a part of its assets, and will not attempt on the baais of the possession of aaid leases to in any manner secure money or other wistance to enable mid company to locate, construct, equip, or maintain @aid proposed line of milway, and that in the issuance of the bonds and the giving of any mortgage for the purpose of securing any such money or assistance no mention whatever shall be made in said bonds or mortgage of said leases, and no language shall he used in either said bonds or mort-gage the purpose of which is to refer to or include said leases or my of them in the property pledged to secure such loan. To avoid any miwnderatanding the bonds and mortgage will be submitted to this Department before offering the aame for sale. Upon this the Department, November 13,1901, approved the appli-cation of the company to survey a line from Red Fork, Creek Nation, to Tecumseh or Shawnee, Okla., and also approved, under act of March 2, 1899, the map of deiinite location of 10.23 miles, being the first section of the line southerly from Red Fork. The schedule of damages in this first section, in the sum of $1,540.30, was approved March 12,1902, but the company has not yet made pay-ment. It has submitted an amended map of this section and also maps of definite location of the other four sections, showing the surveyed line from Red Fork to Shawnee. The company has been notified that the maps of sections 2 to 5 were not accompanied by evidence of tbe service of notice of the application upon the allottees in the Creek Nation, and in Oklahoma. The amended map of the first section was approved April 8,1902. Shawnee, Oklahoma and Indian Territory Railway Company.-July 25, 1901, this company was authorized to survey a line through por-tions of Oklahoma and Indian Territory under the act of March 2, 1899. Maps showing the line of survey from Guthrie, Okla., to a point about 60 miles south of Canadian River, in the Chickasaw Nation, after being returned for correction, were forwarded to the Department April 1, 1901. April 22, 1901, the company filed maps of three sec-tions, showing the survey extending northerly from the Canadian River in Oklahoma, which were forwarded to the Department October 12. April 20,1901, the Department called for additional proof of the good faith and financial ability of the company, and October 5 an attorney in New York replied that negotiations were pending looking to the financing of the proposition. October 29,1901, the maps of the six sections were returned to the company not approved, with the informa-tion that the evidence of good faith and financial ability submitted was not satisfactory. Shawnee, Oklahoma and IUissonri Coal and Railway Company.-The question referred to in the last report as to whether right of way dam-ages assessed in the Creek Nation belong properly to the nation or to the individual allottee making selections prior to May 25, 1901 (the date of the ratification of the Creek agreement), is still undetermined. October 10, 1901, the company was advised that the allotteer in the |