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Show 112 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. joint report of May 20 showed a total award for tribal damages of . 820,167.22 and for individual damages of $2,505.52. A schedule was also submitted showing the names of individual occupants dissenting from the award of damages and with whom amicable settlement could npt be effected by the railroadcompany, with adescription of thelands occupied by each; also certain instruments evidencing the payment by the railroad company to the several individual occupants of the amounts awarded each except in the cases where amicable settlement could not be effected. The schedule of tribal damages and schedule of individual ilamages for which settlement was effected were approved bytheDepartmeut Joly 9, 1901, and the office was directed to collect the amount for tribal damages and to pay the same to the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations as their interests might appear. The president of che company, Francis I. Gowen, was requested by this office, July 23, to remit the amount of tribal damages shown to be due the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes. It has not yet been received. May 16, 1901, there was filed in this o5ce a map showing the selec-tion of station gronnds made by the company at Ardmore, Ind. T. The map was forwarded to the Department May 18, and was returned to thisoffice, approved, May 21, and Inspector Cyrus Beedewas desig-natedto assess the damages arising from the selection. The inspector appraised the damages in, the sun1 of $313.25, and on July 11 the office was directed to collect that amoont from the railroad company, which amount was remitted by voucher July 19. June 28, 1901, maps showing selections of station grounds at the following-named points were filed in this office: Wild Horse, Kiowa, North Fork, Coalgate, Windy Hill, Blue, and Russet, and on July 3 map of station gronnds selected at Wapanucka. The maps were traus-mitted to the Department. July 11 and returned to this office approved July 17. Agent Shoenfelt, of the Union Agency, was designated to appraise the damages arising from the location of these station grounds. August 2, 1901, there mere filed in this office maps showing the selec-tion of station gronnds at Tishomingo and Mansville. The map of station grounds at Miusville was approved by the Department August 9. The map showing the grounds at Tishomingo was returned to the com-pany August 7 for correotion. Watonga and Northwestern Railroad Company.-Application was filed in this office February 21, 1901, by C. E. Ingersoll, president, for per-mission to survey and locate a line of road extending from a connection with the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad near Geary, Okla., northerly to a point near Watonga, Okla. ; it was accompanied by maps of definite location designated sections 1 and 2, showing the survey of the line. The maps were returned to this office by the Department, with instructions that the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Com-pany be required to relinquish any rights it might have acquired by |