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Show REPORT OF l'BE COMMIRStONE!& OP 1bbuR AFIFAfRS, XtJ to assess damages to individual occupants, filed their report in the Ue. partment. Their awards wbre as follows: To the Cherokee Nation foi right of way for 35.5 miles of man line, at $9.1 per mile .............................................................. @, 301.50 To the sme for right of way for 112.54 miles of branch line at $36 per mile. 4,051.44 -- Total award to the Cherokee Nation ............................... 7,352.94 To the Ponoa tribe of Indians far right of way for 13.7 miles of main line, at $117.70 per mile .................................................... 1,616.60 To the Otoeand Missonria tribeof Indians for right of way for 14.8 miles of main line, at $162 per mile ........................................... 2,590.48 Tats1 amount of tribal awards ........................ .:. ......... 11,360.02 Damages awarded to individu.1 Ponoas .................................. 265.00 From this award the Cherokee Xatiou has appealed by petition to the United States court for the western district of Arkansas, as pro-vided by the act, and the appeal is now pending. The Otoes and Min-sonrias accepted the award made in their favor, and the amount thereof, $2,390.48, war, duly paid by the railway company, and dis-tributed amongst them per capita. The Poncas flatly refused to accept tbe award for $1,616.60 made in their favor, but finally agreed to com-promise at the sum of $3,000, which ha8 also beeu paid by the railway company, and distributed to them per capita. At last accounts the iu- ~lividualP oncas still refused to accept the amounts awarded to them, but the sun~isn voIved are too small to warrant litigation. Maps of definite locatiou of the remaining sections of the main and b r a ~ ~ clihne s of the road have bee11 approved in the Department. At the date of the last official advices the main line was completed, end open to Oklahom,? Station, a distance of 117 miles from the Kansas border. Plats of station grounds, eighteen in number, on the main and branch lines, selected by %he company under the provisions of the act., have also beeu filed in the Department, and, by your direction, referred to the principal chiefs of the several nations or tribes interested, for examination and objections, if any, prior to approval. Maps of definite locatiou of the en.tire line of the Gulf, Colorado aud Santa PB Railway (act approved July 4,1884,23 Stat., 69) through the lauds included in the Chickasaw district, havealso beeu filed in theDe-partmeut and received your approval. Under the provisions of the act, a board of referees, consisting of Messrs. John M. Galloway, of Fort Scott, Kaus., F. M. Dougherty, of Gainesville, Tex., and Malcom McEacMu, of Fort Smith, Ark., were appoiuted by the President to apprilise the value of the right of way, and assessdapages to individual occupants. Their duties were confined simply to the cases of inPiridua1 ocoupants, the principal chiefs of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations having formerly notified this office of the acceptance bf the allowances provided by the act in respect of the general right of way. On the 27th December, 1856, the referees filed their report in t.he Department, |