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Show 44 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. January 31, 1898, the Department approved the map of definite location of sectioil 1 of the road. May 6, 1895, the Secretary approved an amended nlxp of section 1 and map of section 2 of the line of road. . July 8,1805, the map of definite location of section 3 was approved by the Department, but the original map of section 4 was not approved. A new map of sectioii 4 was :bpl)roved July 16,1895. August 21,1895, the compa~~fiyle d a mortgage in favor of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Trust Company, of Kansas City, Mo., and the State Trust Com-pany, of New York City, to secure the issuance of gold bonds to an amount not exceeding $25,000 per mile of completed single main track and of yard and terminal tracks, and $15,000 additional per mile of completed main or doable track of said line of r:rilroad, or its exten-sions and branches, not to exceed at any one time the capital stock of the company. Clioctato, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company (formerly the Choc-taw Coal and Railway Con~paizy).-October 6,1894, t i ~ pcr esident of the company transmitted to this office a certificate of the reorganization of the Choctaw Coal and R a i l f ~Ca o~m pany as the.Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company, as provided for in section 3 of the act of Oongress of August 24,1894 (28 Stats., 503). October 23, 1894, the president of the company filed a certified copy of the deed of eozlrey-ance to. the purchasers of tlre rights, property, and franchises of the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, and also filed a mortgage of the company to thn. Finance Company of Philadelplria to secure an issue of $1,000,000 in b~nds. January 16, 1895, the Department approved amended maps of definite location of sections 5,6, and8 (there being no sectionnumbered 7). At that time amended map of definitelocation of section 4 (the section which extends through the Kickapoo Reservation) was held by the Department for further consideration. February 15, 1895,the Secretary indorsed upon that map thefollowing: "The within map is hereby disapproved, except where said line coincides with the line shown upon the original map of the fourth section filed in the Indian O5co in 1890." April 12,1895, the general agent of the com-pany filed a mortgage infavor of the Girard Life Insurance, Annuity and Trust Company of Philadelphia to secure the issue of $5,500,000 in bonds. From time to time the president of the company has filed reports : showing a~nount of coal mined monthly in the Choctaw Nation, in accordance with the provisions of the set of October 1,1890 (26 Stats., 1 640). Jnly 16,1895, the company tendered a draft for $2,588.81 in pay. ment for right of way for three 10-mile sections, extending westward i from a point about 2 miles west of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas ! Eailroad, and also in full of the annual tax at the rate of $15 per mile, \ for the fiscal year ending June 30,1895, for eachmile of road constructed through Indian lands. The amount due for right of way for said three sections was $1,500; the remaining $1,088.81 is for annual tax. i |