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Show 44 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. of the annual tan of $15 per mile for that portion of the road extending through the Chickasaw Nation and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reser-vation, a total distance of 7.16 miles, for the fiscal ending Jnne 30, 1894. Kansas and Arkansas Valley Railway Company.--July 9, 1894, the company tendered a draft for $2,444.55 in payment of the annual tax of $15 per mile on that portion of the road passing through Indian lands, for the fiscal year ending Jnne 30,1894. Benison and Washita Valley Railroad Company.-July 14,1894, the ,company tendered a draft for $150 in payment of the annual tax of $15 per mile on that portion of the road extending through Indian lands, for the fiscal year ending Jnne 30,1894. Gainesville, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway Company.-As mentioned in thelast annual report,, this company was granted right of way through the 1ndia.n Territory by act of Congress approved February 20,1893 (27 Stats., 465). No maps of definite location of the line of the road have been filed for approval. Qainesville, Mdllister and. St. Louis Railloay Company.-The last annual report states that by act of Congress approved March 1,1893 (27 Stats., 5241, this company was granted a right of way through the Indian Territory. No maps of definite location of the line of road have yet been filed for approval. Interoceanic Railway Company.-The last anr~ual report states that .by act of Congress approved March 3, 1893 (27 Stats., 747), this com-pany was granted right of way through the' Indian Territory. No maps of definite location of the line of the road have yet been filed for approval. Earnas City, Pittsburg and Gucf Railway Con~pany.-As mentioned in the last annual report, t.his company was granted right of way through the Indian Territory by act of Congre~s approved February 27,1893 (27 Stats., 487). No maps of definite location of the line of the road have yet been filed for approval. Devils Lake Reservation, Ii. Dak.-The last annual report referred to the fact that the Jamestown and Northern Railway Company had never paid for its right of wary through the above reservation. A full history of this case is printed in HouseEx. Doc. No. 3, Forty-eighth Congress, second session, and Senat.e Ex. Doc. No. 16, Forty-ninth Congress, first .session, to which attention is invited. On a number of occasions this . , office has recommended that Congress ratify the agreemeht entered hinto July 28,1883, between the company and the Indians; hut no final .action has yet been taken. Pupllup Ileservation, Washington.-The last annual report ulentions 'an attempt by one Frank C. Ross to construct a railroad across the Pnyallup Reservation, without first having secured from Congress a right of way for that purpose, and states that he was prevented, by t,he aid of the military, from carrying out his designs;. also that said Ross |