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Show BEPOET OF THE COMMISSIONEE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 85 1 point on the Chicago, R ~ c kIs land and Pacific Railway near Chickasha, in the Chickasaw Nation, and extending in a general sontheasterly direction a distance of 40 miles; also four'plats of station grounds along that portion of road. December 26, 1899, the Department approved said maps and plats subject to all the conditions, limitations, and provisions contained in the act of March 2, 1899, and subject also to all vested rights. June 22, 1900, the Department accepted and approved the relinquishment of said company to the United States and the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations of all its right, title, interest, and claim in and to the right of way of its projected line of railway in the Indian Territory between a point in sec. 27, T. 7 N., R. 7 W., Indian meridian, which is 1,222 feet north of the south line and 1,256 feet east of the west line of said section, and the west line of sec. 10, in T. 4 N., R. 4 W., of the Indian meridian, all in the Chickasaw Nation, as evidenced by certain maps of definite location theretofore approved by the Department. The Kansas Southwestern Railroad Company.-October 14,1899, the Department granted authority for said company to locate and survey a line of railroad through the Kansas and Osage Indian reservations, in Oklahoma, as provided in the company's charter, upon condition that if the proposed location be parallel to and within 10 miles of a railroad already constructed or in course of construction at the date of location, it must be shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior, before the maps of definite location will be approved, that the public interests will be promoted by the construction of the road. No maps of definite location of the company's line of road have yet been submitted for approval. The Kansas Southeastern Railroad Company.-December 27,1899, the Department ,panted authority for the above-named company to locate and survey a line of railroad along the route mentioned in its charter, namely, commencing at or near Dawson, on the St. Louis and San Fran-cisco Railway, in T. 20 N., R. 13 E., and extending thence in a southerly direction about 5 miles, and thence in a southeasterly direction to the Missouri, Kansar and Texas Railway near Wagoner, in the Indian Ter-ritory. No maps of definite location of the company's line of road have yet been submitted for approval. North Arkansas and Western Railroad Company. J u l y 2, 1900, the Department granted authority for the above-named company to locate and survey a line of road, as mentioned in the company's application, commencing on the eastern line of the Indian Territory, in T. 13 N., R. 33 W.,fifth principal meridian, and extending thence in a general westerly direction to a point on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-way between a point just north of Wagoner and a point just south of ' Mnscogee, Ind. T. No maps of definite location of the company's line of road have get been submitted for approval. |