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Show REPORT OB THE COMldI88IONER OF INDIAN AFFAIFS. 101 a line of road through the Cherokee and Creek nations and certain counties in Oklahoma Territory, commencing at a point at or near Fort Gibson, Cherokee Nation, Ind. T., and extending thence west-erly and northwesterly to the west line of the Creek Nation, Ind. T., and through the counties of Lincoln, Logan, Kinghher, Candin, Oklahoma, and Pothmtomie, in the Territory of Oklahoma. May 3 and May 6, 1901, respectively, the Department authorized the com-pany to make survey thro~igh the Cherokee and Creek nations and through the counties named in the Territory of Oklahoma. June 12, 1901, there was filed in this o5ce a map of definite location, desig-nating the first section, and showing the line of survey from Fort Gib-son, Cherokee Nation, to Muskogee, Creek Nation; and July 16 there were fled maps of definite location, showing the line of survey of the second and third sections, extending from Muskogee northwesterly a distance of 27.40 miles. July 25 the Department returned to this office, approved under the aot of March 2, 1899, the maps of definite location of sections 1, 2, and 3, and designated Inspector Beede to appraise the damages arising from the location of the line of road. Instructions have been prepared by this office and approved by the Department relative to the assessment of damages, but owing to the great amount of work of this nature now being done by the agents of the Department Inspector Beede has not yet been detailed to this par-ticular work. Minnesota and Manitoba Railroad Company.-This company was authorized by act of April 17, 1900 (31 Stats., 134), to acquire right of way for a railroad and for telegraph and telephone lines through the ceded lands of what was formerly the Red Lake Reservation, commencing at a point at or near the terminus of the Manitoba and Southeastern Railway on the boundary line between the State of Minnesota and the Province of Manitoba, thence in a southeasterly direction to a point on Rainy River, forming the northeastern bound-boundary of Minnesota, Bt or near the mouth of the Bandette River. The company is also authorized by the act to take grounds adjaoent to its right of way for station purposes, 300 feet in width and 3,000 feet in length, to the extent of one station for each 10 miles of road, , except at the crossing of &iny River, at which point it is authorized to take not exceeding 40 acres, in addition to the grounds allowed for station purposes, for the corresponding section of 10 miles. December 5,1900, the Department approved two maps of definite location showing the surveyed line of road through the Red Lake Reservation and one plat of station grounds, but owing to the severity of the winters in this latitude the Department did not designate an agent to appraise the damages occasioned by the survey of the line of road until April 10, 1901, on which date Special Agent Eugene Mac- Comas was instiucted to assess the damages. May 31 he submitted |