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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 65 February 3,1892 (27 Stitts., 2). On March 3,1893, the company, uncler the amended act, filed in this ofice, for the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, three maps of definite locatio~lo f the line of the road through the Cherokee outlet, a dist,ance of 84.4 miles. These maps were approved on April 18, 1893. The company also, on June 5, 1893, filed six plats showing the location of station grounds desired by it along that portion of the road for which maps of definite location had already been approved. These p1a.t~w ere approved by the Secretary of the Interior on July 10, 1893. So far as t,his office is aware no portion of the road has yet been constructed. Gulf, Colorado ailc7 Sunta Pi Rainil~oay Comnpany.-In the last annnal report attentiou was invited to the fact that there irns then pending before Cong~,ess a bill (5. 3147) to a,nthorize the Gulf, Colorado and Santa FB Railway Company to purchase certain lands for station pur-poses at Davis, Chickasaw Nation. So fa,. as this office is advised final action on tile hill was not reached. Under date of September 19, 1893, the cornpany tendered a draft for $1,600 in payment of annual tax of $15 per mile on that portion of the road passing through Indian lands, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893. The Soz~tl~eIrCia~i &sasR ailroad (leased to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F6 Railway Company).-Hention was made in the last annua.1 report of the co~npromiveb y this compsuy with the Cherokee Nation of Iudians for right of way through the Cherokee Outlet lands. This matter had been pending in the courts for years, and its settlement was a source of gratification alike to this office and to the Indians. On September 16, 1892, the Acting Secretary of the Interior approved a plat showing station grounds desired by the company on the first 10- mile section of the roa8 sonth from Kansas, at Cliilocco Station. August 22, 1893, the company tendered drafts for $107.40 in payinent of the annual tax of $15 per mile for that portion of the road extending through the Cheyenne and Ara.paho and Chicka,ssn. reser-vations, a total distance of 7.16 miles. The company has never tendered payment of annual tax on that portion of the road extending t'hrougl~ the Cherokee Outlet lands, nor throng11 the reservations of the Poncas or Otoes and Dfissourias. II:unscrs and Arliunxccs LsalZoy Ruiltoa?~ Compu,?cy.-The last annnal report tnalces mention of the fact that the an~ouut due Lhe Cherokee Nation for right of may of this colnpany through their lands wasplaced to the credit of the nation by anthority of Uepart~nentl etter of Fcb-mary 13,1892. Under date of September 5,1893, the company ten-dered a, draft for $2,444.56 in payment of the annual tax of $15'per mile on that portion of the road passing through Indian lands. IIfissouri, Eaccnsas and Texas Rai1tou.y Company.-On May 25,1893, the Acting Secretary of the Interior approved a plat showing station grounds desired by the conipauy at Bl,aclrston, in the. Creeli Nation. 7899 I A--5 |