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Show 1 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 39 for right of way which ha4 been made by the company to preseit date. Maps df definite location of the second and third sections of 25 miles eaoh of the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway, were approved by the Department on March 30 and ~~n 1 2 4 , 1 8 8r9es,p ectively. Tbe Cher-okee Council having protested against the compensationof $50 per mile for right of way provided in the act, a hoard of referees was appointed, as therein provided, consisting of James N. Beacon, esq.,of Smith Centre, Kans. ; Samuel J. Urawford, esq., of Topeka, Kans., and George L. Douglas, esq., of Wichita, Ems. This board ha8 not yet submitted its award. It was stated in the last annual report that seventeen plats of station grounds of the Southern KanSa8 Railway (act July 4,1884; 22 Stat., 73) were approved by the Department Octobzr 25,1887. Another plat, that of the station grounds at Purcell, in the Chickasaw district, which was withheld for certain explanations in regard thereto by the railway ' company, was approved by the Departdent November 28,1887. Ou November 5, 1888, Messrs. Britton & Gray, attorneys for said railway company, tiled in the Department a plat of the eompany's station grounds at Uhilocco, on mile 1 of the main line of the road, which . plat having been referred to this office was returned to the Depart-ment December 7, 1888, for the reason that the width of the strip selected for such station grounds, as shown upon the plat, was greater on the east side of the track than the right-of-way grant allows. In re-turning the plat this office recommended that it be returned to Messrs. Britton L% Gray for proper correction. No eorrected map has as yet been presented for approval and nothing has beer1 heard of the matter since. On January 9,1889. the Department approved four plats of tracts selected for station gronnds on the branch line of said Southern Kansas 1 Railway Company, at Warren, on miles 8 and 9 of the tirst section; at Warwick, on miles 68 and 69 of the seventh section ; at Gage, on miles 96 and 97 of the tenth section; at Goodwin, on miles 113 and 114 of the twelfth mction. Ou June 27, 1889, Messrs. Britton $ Gray filed fonr additional plats , showing gronnda desired by the said Southern Kansas Railway Com-pany for station purposes. Three of them, viz, L'6rlando," on mile 65, Seward," on mile 93, and LLVerbeck,"o n mile 126, falling within the OkIahoma country, were returued to the Department by this office August 26,1x89, for reference to the General Land Office, the lauds of the Oklahoma conhtry being liow within the jurisdiccion of that office. The rerhaining plat, designated as "Perry" station, on mile 49 oE the main line, in sectiou 32, township 22 uorth,rangeleast, Indian meridian, was,returned to the Departlrent at the same time, with the recommends. tion tha,t it be approved, subject to any right of indi~iduaIln dians law-fully existing in or to the tract of ground so selected at the date of the |
