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Show 64 REPORT OF TBE COMMISBIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. and Washita, the Wichita, Kiowa, and Comanche reservations, and Greer County, Okla., to Vernon, Tex.; also for a branch line from a point on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway at or near Pryor Creek, in the Cherokee Nation westwardly and intersecting with the said above-described line where it crosses the Arkansas River in the Osage Nation. Rio Qrande, Pagosa and Northern Railroad Company.-May 19, 1899, tacit authority was granted the above-named company for the location and survey of its line of road through the allotted lands formerly embraced within the Southern Ute Reservation, Cola. The survey of the line of road was effected and on July 20,1899, a map showing the definite locatio~o~f the liue of road through said allotted lands was submitted to this Department for approval. On July 25 the Acting Secretary approved the map, as follows: Approved only so fsr ss the line of road represented hereon passes through Indian lands, aohject to all the requirements, limitations, and provisions oontsined in the act of Congreas approved Maroh 2, 1899. St. Louis, Tecnmseh and Lexington Railway Company.-On March 9, 1899, the Acting Secretary of the Interior granted authority for the 1 above-named company to locate and survey its line of railroad over and across Indian lands aud reservations lying and being between the St. I Louis and Sau Francisco Railway at or near the town of Stroud, in Oklahoma, and extending in a southwesterly direction by way of Tecumaeh to the town of Lexington, Okla. Shawnee, Oklahoma and Indian Territory Railway Company.-July 25, 1899, the Acting Secretary of the Interior granted authority for the above-named company to locate and survey a line of railroad over and across Indian lands from Shawnee, Okla., in a southeasterly direction to Coalgate, in the Indian Territory, or south thereof to a point on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad; and also from Shawnee, Okla., northward to a point intersecting the line of road of the St. Louis and S ~ IFIr ancisco Railroad at or near Stroud, Okla. Tecumseh and Shawnee Railroad Company.-July 25,1899, the Acting Secretary granted authority for the above-named company to survey and locate its line of road through and across Indian lands lying and being between Tecumseh, Okla., and Shawnee, Okla., both termini being within PotLawatomie County, Okla. Eastern Oklahoma Railroad Company.-August 1,1899, the Acting See retary of the Interior granted authority for the Eastern Oklahoma Rail-road Company to locate and survey its line of railroad through Indian lands from Guthrie, Okla., eastward to the west line of the Creek Nation, south of the Cimarron River; also a branch line from the main line of the Atchisou, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, beginning at the most feasible aod aocessible junction between the station of Bliss and the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River and extending in a southeasterly directiou through the Ponca and Otoe and Missonria reservations and |