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Show 46. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. its lessee in perpetuity.-By act of Congress of April 18, 1896, which became a law on that date without the approval of the President (29 Stat. L., p. 95, and page 437 of this report), the above-named company was granted right of way through said reservations for its line of rail-road as located and existing on &nd since the 7th day of April, 1895, commencing upon the allotment of Sidney Perry at the southeast corner of said reservation and extellding northwestwardly to a point 1,274 feet west of the east line of the allotment of Stephen Story, in the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 26, township 1 north, of range 18 east, in Richardson County, Nebr. The map of definite location of the line of road was approved by the Secretary of the Interior on May 28,1896. GRANTS REPERRED TO IN PREVIOUS ANNUAL REPORTS. Indian and Oklahoma Territories.-Kansas City, Pittsfiurg and Gulf Railroad.-By act of Congress approved February 13,1896 (29 Stat. L., p. 6, and page 412 of this report), the original act granting the above named company the right of way through the Indian Territory (the act of February 27,1893,27 Stat. L., p. 487) was so amended as to permit the company to eonst,ruet a branch liue of road from some .point on the main line of said railroad in the Indian Territory, south of the Arkansas River and north of the town of Poteau, by the most feasible and practicable route, to the city of Fort Smitk in the State of Arkansas, and with the right to build in the line of said branch rail-road a bridge across the Poteau River, whose plan of construction shall be first approved by the Secretary of War, and with the right to locate, construct, maintain, and operate a spur of its railroad from a point on said branch about 4 miles ilortheast of Seullyville, by the most prac-ticable route, to a point on the western line of the State of Arkansas about 10 miles south of Fort Smith, and with the right to build in the line of said spur a bridge over the Poteau River, whose plan of con-struetion shall first be approved by the Secretary of War. October 14,1895, the president of the company tendered a draft for $1,250 in payment of right of way for the first section of 25 miles of road. February 1,1896, the Secretary approved the maps of definite location of sections 5 and 6 of the line of road. These completed the line of the road through the Indian Territory. August 1,1896, the company tendered a draft for $1,051.82 in payment of theannual tax at the rate of $15 per mile, for line of road through the Indian Territory, for fiscal year ending June 30,1896. Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, (formerly the Choctaw~ Coal and Railway).-By act of Congress of April 24,1896 (29 Stat. I,., p. 98, and p. 438 of this report), the act of August 24,1894 (28 Stat. L., 502), was modified by declaring: SEC. 2. That the powers conferred by said seation four shall extend to branches intended to aid the development of any ooal or timber territory oootig~lonn or tribu-tary to the lines of railroad of the said Choctaw, Oklilhoma and Gulf Railroad |