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Show XXT-I REPORT OF TEE COMIvIISSIONER OF IhTlIAN AFFAIRS.. Canadian onits north side to where it empties into the Brkausas River; crossing the Arkansas and running down said river on its north side to Tan Buren; ip its route passing through country occupied under Exeeu-tive order by the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, through the reservation of the Pottawatomies, and through the Seminole, Oreek, and Cherokee countries. Your predecessor held that should the branch road be biiilt on the line of location as laid down on the maps, there xonld then be two east and west roads through the Creek and Cherokee countiy, which would be in violation of the treaties with those Iudians which provide for but one eavt and west and one north and sonth road through their re-spective countries. He was therefore of opinion that should the branch road be built, it.should not be allowed to cross the country of the Oreeks or of the Cherokees, but should have its line, so far as those countries are concerned, south of the Oanadian and Arkansas Rivers. On the 10th August last the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, through its geueral solicitor, General Williamson, applied to this of€ice, .stating that the road had been completed from Vinita, through the Oher-okee and Creek country, to a point near the Arkansas River, which wonld be township 19 north, range 12 east, if the surveys were extended; that the. company had earefully surveyed the line of main road so laid clown on the map of definite location, and finding many engineering diffi-culties to eoiitend with, asked permissioi~t o explore the country south of the line located for t,he purpose of gainiug such information as would .enable it to contrast the cost of constriictiug aird maintaining a road on a inore southerri route with the cost of constructing a road along the Cimarson River, and with the ultimate intentiou of laying the facts and figures befbre the department, with a, view to procuring a ruling upon the question as to the exact line upon which the company should build its roati, if any doubt should exist as to where it might. build. The request appeariug reasonable, permission to make the necessasy explorations through the country designated was granted, subjwt to the. consent of t:he Indians, viz, the Creeks, Sacs and Foxes, n,nd Chey-ennes and Arapahoes, through whose lands the exploring party would necessarily pass, and General Williamsoil was so notified by office letter of Angost 31, 1882. The several agents for these Indians were at the same time directed to cot~sultw ith them and endeavor to procure their consent to t.he passage of the company's employes through their lands for the purposes indicated. The Cheyenues and Arapahoes who, in November, 1881, seriously objected to the construction of the road have '~eadi l~agss ented. The Creeks and Sa,e and Fox Indians have, as yet, taken no definite action in the matter, but it is not apprehended that auy serious objeotion will be iuterposed. A'niitt Louis and San fianciseo Railroad-Cl~octaw and Chickasaw eoclntly, Indialz Territory.-Onthe2dof August, 1882, Congresspassedan act granting a right of way to the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Company for a railroad and telegraph liue through the lands of the |